And Then There Were Two

From the editors of National Review:

Chief Justice William Rehnquist's death brings to an end a long and praiseworthy career of public service. When he came to the Supreme Court, there was no Federalist Society. Antonin Scalia was not a justice; Clarence Thomas had not even been graduated from law school. The closest thing to another conservative on the Court was Byron White, a Kennedy appointee. It was a lonely time to insist on constraints on the power of the federal judiciary. (Rehnquist was the only Republican justice to dissent from Roe v. Wade.) Rehnquist never succumbed to the prevailing fashion. If any conservative reformation of the federal judiciary happens now, he will be counted among its originators.