The Deregulatory Valence of Justice O'Connor's Federalism

Abstract

fedrevO705.msp#Friday. Hills goes on to write that the Rehnquist Court's federalism decisions imposed an "extremely modest brake on the centripetal tendencies of American constitutional law," and that "[flrom the outset, the Court made it perfectly clear to anyone who bothered to listen that its ambitions for trimming back on national powers were modest and largely apolitical." Id. 2. A June 2007 search in the Westlaw Journals and Law Reviews database (JLR) found eighty-five documents using the terms "Rehnquist Court" and "federalism revolution" in the same paragraph.