In May 2011, the SupremeCourt decidedinChamber of Commercev. Whiting that Arizona'semployer sanctions lawwas notpre-emptedbecauseitpromoted the objectivesoffederallaw.
Capitol Hill and the White House have their own institutionalized pageantry (think the State of the Union address), but when Dale Bosley, the marshal of the SupremeCourt, came into the chamber on Friday to declare, "God save the United States and this honorable court, " it was hard not to feel a little bit moved.
An unabashed liberal in both the philosophical and American political senses of the word his behaviour on the bench would be that of an extreme activist who would seek to turn the SupremeCourt into little more than a third legislative chamber.