Posted on 13 November 2014. Tags: Affordable Care Act, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, Linda Greenhouse, Samuel Alito
Nobody, in my opinion, knows the Supreme Court better, and writes about its decisions and law in a more user-friendly way, than Linda Greenhouse, former NYTimes Supreme Court reporter who has a regular column on the Times website; I read every one of her columns, even if it’s not a topic I particularly work on or follow.
Today, she blisters the Court in a broadside that essentially says: by agreeing to take up a challenge to the Affordable Care Act, the conservative majority has shown that it is simply a group of “politicians in robes”.
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Posted on 01 November 2011. Tags: Clarence Thomas, Hermain Cain, Sexual Harassment
What’s all the handwringing from conservatives about? Well, that did not take long. Minutes after news broke Sunday night that Herman Cain had been accused of sexual harassment in the 1990s, comparisons were drawn to Clarence Thomas. Even 20 years after Justice Thomas joined the Supreme Court, and Americans heard the term “sexual harassment’’ […]
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