In a crucial Bush-era decision on detention of suspected al-Qaeda members, Rasul v. Bush, Stevens was able to rely on a dissent he had helped draft for Rutledge in the obscure case of Ahrens v. ..…

Among the most famous opinions written by Stevens was in the Court's to halt Florida recounts in the 2000 US Presidential election, the decision that cemented George W. Bush's victory over Al Gore. Stevens retired from the court in 2010. . ..…

Throughout his career, Stevens unleashed some of his most memorable language in defeat. . He wrote a scathing dissent in Bush v. Gore, the 2000 case that ended Florida’s presidential recount and anointed George W. ..…

Societal debates over the rights of men and lesbians, the role of race, property rights, also made their way onto Supreme Court's docket, and Justice Stevens, Republican from Chicago, was as surprised as anyone to find taking the liberal side and becoming its ardent champion.. Bush, in..…

Sixteen years later, in his dissent in Bush v. Gore, Justice Stevens wrote that that the clearest loser in the 2000 presidential election was the “Nation’s confidence in the judge as the impartial guardian of the rule of law.” . ..…

Those changes recast Stevens as a liberal voice, one who increasingly disagreed with his more conservative colleagues. His dissenting opinions in Bush v. Gore, District of Columbia v. Heller, and Citizens United v. ..…

Johnson, 1989: The court ruled 5-4 that burning the American flag is a form of protected free speech, but Stevens – a veteran of World War II – argued that the flag is 'worthy of protection from unnecessary desecration.' . Bush v. Gore, 2000: Stevens was among four liberal..…