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Times Lauds Left-Wing Radical as 'Civil Rights Lawyer'

Ralph Fertig runs a left-wing pressure group, but to Times Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak he's just a "civil rights lawyer," and his wish to provide legal support to a Kurdish group in Turkey ...

Justice Samuel Alito: This Year's Joe 'You Lie' Wilson?

Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak finds both Obama and the Justice Sam Alito guilty of a "breach of decorum," Obama for attacking the Supreme Court's decision in his State of the Union address, ...

The 'Common Sense and Moral Clarity' of the Supreme Court's Most Left-Wing Justice

Legal reporter Adam Liptak lauds Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who holds down the far left of the Supreme Court: "In cases involving prisoners held without charge at Guantánamo Bay and ...

Times Fails to Hail Free Speech Victory in Supreme Court, Frets Over 'Corrupting of Democracy'

The nation's leading newspaper would of course celebrate a First Amendment victory at the Supreme Court, right? Well, not exactly. Front-page headline: "Dissenters Argue That Ruling Will Corrupt ...

Times "Right to Privacy" Actually All About Abortion

Does the heated issue of abortion, which involves more than one human being, really merit the protective covering of the phrase, a "right to privacy"?

Papers Play Up 'Bold' Turn to the Right at High Court, Suggest Sotomayor Can't Stop the Tide

The Washington Post and New York Times published similar Supreme Court "analysis" pieces on their front pages Wednesday offering the theme that the court under Chief Justice John Roberts is moving ...

NYT Continues to Probe Sotomayor's Racial Rulings

Legal reporter Adam Liptak hints that the decision Judge Sotomayor and her two appeals court colleagues reached in the reverse discrimination case Ricci v. DeStefano was flawed and unprofessional.

Kantor Lauds Sotomayor: She Speaks to Cafeteria Workers, in Spanish!

Jodi Kantor: "What was so powerful in Adam Nagourney's story was the visual of having this bank of white male senators grill in a possibly antagonistic way the first Latina woman nominated to ...

Surprise: Balanced Coverage of Obama's Next Supreme Court Pick

What's gotten into two of the Times' legal reporters? One admits that Obama will surely nominate a liberal to replace the liberal Justice Souter, while the other points out contradictions in ...

"Gruff...Rambling" Conservative Justice Thomas vs. "Energetic...Precise" Ginsburg

Unbalanced views of public appearances by two Supreme Court justices, one conservative, the other liberal.
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