Equality with a Human Face: Justice Blackmun and the Equal Protection of Aliens

Abstract

To me, this line of cases calls into question two conventional wisdoms about Justice Blackmun that even his recent "revisionist" chroniclers have left unchallenged: first, that his voting patterns have steadily shifted over the years, while those of his colleagues have stayed largely the same; and second, that in his opinions, "Justice Blackmun makes little attempt to propound a consistent theory of how the Constitution should be interpreted."