Originally Posted by benjamin
Brown v. Board of Ed was decided under the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause. Additionally, it was a watershed moment in the civil rights struggle. It was an issue of human rights and Earl Warren was a brilliant man. You'll have a hard time finding anyone who'll put Rehnquist in the same category as Warren. Surely I will not.
who was trying to classify supreme court judges? the fact that there were a lot of people who thought a supreme court decision was a bad idea means absolutely nothing. opinions are opinions. that's what the analogy was intended to convey.
incidentally, dwight. d. eisenhower, who appointed earl warren, called him one of his administration's big mistakes. not that it means anything or that i agree with him. i just think it's interesting.