AS PEOPLE PONDER THE ROBERTS NOMINATION, it’s worth noting that despite a fairly strong and consistent ideological core and a long term on the Court, Rehnquist’s Chief Justiceship didn’t, in the end, produce especially dramatic change.

Brannon Denning and I have an article on the Raich opinion and federalism (part of a symposium on the decision) that discusses that point.

UPDATE: Related thoughts on Rehnquist from Bill Stuntz.