The New York Times (June 28) -- Vikram Amar, the dean of the College of Law at Illinois, says there has been a change in tone at the Supreme Court since Justice Antonin Scalia died. “In Fisher (v. University of Texas, a ruling on affirmative action and college admissions),” Amar says, “even though the dissent (Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.) read from the bench was frank, it was not as barbed and incendiary as Justice Scalia’s likely would have been.”
