"This book examines the criminal justice decisions of the Rehnquist Court era through analyses of individual justices' contributions to the development of law and policy. The Rehnquist Court era (1986-2005) produced a period of opportunity for the U.S. Supreme Court's judicial conservatives to reshape constitutional law concerning rights in the criminal justice process. It was an era in which the Court produced many hotly-debated decisio ..."
"These cases show how Justice White was neither consistently liberal nor
conservative on the issue of personal liberty. ... That is, in Justice White's view the
constitutional zone of privacy did not extend to the issue of abortion, and
accordingly ... the majority held that no fundamental right to privacy protects
homosexual conduct from leading to criminal prosecution. A year after he passed
away, the Supreme Court in Lawrence v. ..."