FIVE The Affirmative Action Decisions

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. The Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, 2002–03 ix
5. Introduction 1
6. ONE A High Court of One: The Role of the ‘‘Swing Voter’’ in the 2002 Term 11
7. TWO Anthony M. Kennedy and the Road Not Taken 33
8. THREE A Revolutionary Year: Judicial Assertiveness and Gay Rights 55
9. FOUR The Next Culture War 71
10. FIVE The Affirmative Action Decisions 87
11. SIX Was Affirmative Action Saved by Its Friends? 113
12. SEVEN The Court’s Faux Federalism 131
13. EIGHT Cross Burning: Virginia v. Black 151
14. NINE Cruel and Unusual: Lockyer v. Andrade 175
15. TEN Glasnost at the Supreme Court 191
16. Notes 209
17. Table of Cases 229
18. Index 233
19. Notes on the Contributors 241