"Conservative" Supreme Court Spooked by Public Backlash?

admin — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:10:00 +0000

"Perhaps the conservative justices were taken aback by the public response to the Lilly Ledbetter case, a 5-to-4 decision in an employment discrimination case last term that placed a tight time limit on an employee's ability to file a pay discrimination claim. The decision led to Congressional hearings during which the court was denounced as out of touch with the reality of women's working lives. A bill to overturn the decision failed in the Senate, but came close."

Clay Waters

In her "Supreme Court Memo," "In Latest Term, Majority Grows To More Than 5 of the Justices," reporter Linda Greenhouse pondered where all the narrow 5-4 Supreme Court decisions have gone.Greenhouse stillinsists liberals have little power on the court, which is actually a step forward from her previous denials (back in 2003, when the court had a sl

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"Conservative" Supreme Court Spooked by Public Backlash?