NEW: Toobin outlines Supreme Court’s move to right

Sarasota Herald-Tribune: Conservatism Still Ascendant at Supreme Court

SARASOTA – A quick but insightful tour through the past 60 years of the United States Supreme Court provided the center of author and legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin’s speech Tuesday at a sold-out fundraising luncheon for the Library Foundation for Sarasota County. The upshot: The Supreme Court

Nixon’s appointments of Warren Burger, Harry Blackmun, Lewis Powell and William Rehnquist may have marked a shift in the Republican vs. Democrat headcount, but the court’s decisions in the 1970s did not reflect the political views of the administration.

“In the ’70s the Supreme Court justices were nearly as liberal as in the ’60s,” said Toobin, citing cases involving freedom of the press, affirmative action, the death penalty and most significantly, Roe v. Wade, decisions that would be “unthinkable for today’s Republican Party.”

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