Abstract
The Supreme Court's landmark federalism decision in National League of Cities v. Usery (1976), and the cases leading to its reversal in Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority (1985), illustrate the contradictory interplay of ideology and judicial philosophy on the Court. The deep division on the Court in this area, reflected by Justice Blackmun's decisive change of heart, arises from a collision of judicial philosophies which has forced a role reversal on most of the Justices. The resolution of the issue reached in Garcia, while seemingly a victory for the "liberal" wing of the Court, in fact vindicates profoundly conservative values of judicial restraint and strict constructionism.
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32 Ariz. L. Rev. 749 (1990)
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