Thursday, September 9, 2010

In a recent column on how progressives need to claim the Constitution, Dennis Henigan comments:
As recently as 2005, a conservative majority of the Supreme Court reaffirmed this precedent by recognizing federal power to prohibit the purely local production and medical use of marijuana authorized by state law.

The case he links to is Gonzales v Raich, with the majority in this case consisting of Stevens, joined by Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg and Breyer. So, which one of these is the conservative?
 
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