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Constitution

• March 5 -- Justice Blackmun Grows In Greenhouse
A headline to Linda Greenhouse's story on Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun casts the conservative-turned-liberal justice as having grown in office: "Released Documents Show The Remarkable Evolution Of a Supreme Court Justice." Greenhouse insists that by 1970, the liberal order of the Supreme Court was "vanishing."

• February 25 -- Rejecting Bush's Marriage Proposal
A lead editorial distorts Bush's position on a gay marriage amendment: "The president's speech was a call for taking rights away from gay Americans."

• February 25 -- Married to the Conservative Label
Robin Toner's analysis of Bush's gay marriage amendment announcement mentions "conservative" 17 times and suggests a constitutional amendment may alienate centrists. Yet the Times own poll shows such an amendment has centrist appeal.

• November 20 -- Justice Scalia: "Apocalyptic" but Basically Right
Linda Greenhouse's piece on the Mass. Supreme Court decision striking down gay marriage bans credits conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia with "apocalyptic statements," while calling the Mass. decision "a strikingly inclusive decision that both apologized for the past and, looking to the future, anchored the gay-rights claim at issue in the case firmly in the tradition of human rights at the broadest level."

• September 22 -- Cucumber-Flinging Monkeys Fight for Fairness
Adam Cohen’s editorial summarizes a study of the group behavior of capuchin monkeys: “In a week when fairness was so evidently on the ropes--from the World Trade Organization meeting in Cancún, which poor nations walked out of in frustration, to the latest issue of Forbes, reporting that the richest 400 Americans are worth $955 billion--the capuchin monkeys offered a glimmer of hope from the primate gene pool.”

• August 19 -- Adam Cohen’s Constitutional Wrongs
An editorial by Adam Cohen uses a tour of Philadelphia’s new Constitution museum to accuse Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas of scuttling constitutional rights. A former lawyer for the Southern Poverty Law Center, Cohen’s one of a few Times editorial board members with liberal backgrounds.

• August 13 -- Slammin’ Alabama
An editorial excoriates Alabama’s chief justice for “demagoguing about the Ten Commandments” and “ignoring the Constitution's mandates on the separation of church and state” (before comparing him to Gov. George Wallace). But there’s no “separation of church and state” mandate in the Constitution.

• August 12 -- The Times Stands for “Common Decency” (Part II)
For the Times, that means being anti-death penalty. A headline reads: “Executions versus society’s standards of decency.”

• August 4 -- Not Ready for Prime Time On Crime
A Times editorial defends D.C.’s useless gun ban: “Erroneously proclaiming Washington the murder capital of the nation, [Sen.] Hatch, the Utah Republican, would make it easier for residents to brandish handguns at home and in the workplace.” But Hatch is right: the FBI reports D.C. was the nation’s murder capital last year.

E-mail TimesWatch Director, Clay Waters, with TimesWatch feedback at cwaters@mediaresearch.org