JUSTICE STEVENS RETROSPECTIVE

Two interesting articles on Justice Stevens. 

In this Atlantic article by the late Justice, Justice Stevens writes that  Justice Scalia's  majority opinion in the Second Amendment case Heller was "The Worst Decision of My Tenure."  The article is here.
Justice Stevens write eloquently on the tragedies of firearms in our society and his belief that a constitutional amendment is desperately needed to overrule Heller and it's effects on firearms and shooting tragedies  in the United States. 

In this recent Op Ed piece, Law Professor Barry McDonald gives a well reasoned (real) conservative analysis of why Judges who don't have a judicial philosophy, may be nice people who want to do the right thing, but who represent a danger to the Constitution and the rule of law. The argument, boiled down to its essence, is that you do not want a judge who makes decisions based on their personal view of what is right. What a judge appointed by Donald Trump thinks is right may be vastly different then what a judge appointed by Jimmy Carter thinks is right, and both of those judges may have a different view of what is right then, say, a judge appointed by a President George Wallace- to give an extreme example. 
What you want are judge's who have a consistent and coherent judicial philosophy because in the end, a consistent philosophy withstands the vagaries of trendy ideals, beliefs, and views.