Posner is not exactly a libertarian--unlike Professor Richard Epstein, he is not a fetishist about property rights. I am not even sure that he counts as a conservative any more. He is an excellent judge, and properly skeptical of the drug wars. --jks
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>If you want to point to an interesting conservative divergence on this
>issue, point to the fact that the Supreme Court majority was endorsing
>libertarian Judge Richard Posner's argument striking down the roadblock
>searches. Posner is Justin's and my favorite conservative judge (true
>Justin?) and in many ways, as a practical jurist, is not that conservative
>but a pragmatist in the philosophical sense that trumps his specific
>ideology.
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