Is Judicial Review Good for the Left?

Political scientist Peter Irons once wrote a book about people who took their constitutional claims to the Supreme Court. They included Mary Beth Tinker, who successfully challenged her school board’s policy barring her from wearing a black armband to protest the war in Vietnam, and Barbara Elfbrandt, a Quaker teacher who refused to take an oath supporting the Constitution. Irons called his book The Courage of Their Convictions.

Recently the winners in important Supreme Court ...