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Judiciary

• 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.

• June 23 -- No Pryor Restraint
A Times editorial attacks Bush judicial nominee William Pryor for his “particularly outlandish positions on ‘federalism,’ a dangerous states’ rights movement that seeks to take away federal rights.”

• April 28 -- The Times “Core Principles” of Hypocrisy, Part II
What’s the Times editorial line on states rights? What day is it?

• April 25 -- The Times “Core Principles” of Hypocrisy
A Times editorial expresses respect for “core principles of federalism.” But what happens to their sacred federalism when it comes to liberal laws it likes?

• March 14 -- Deborah Sontag Slimes the Fourth Circuit Court
Deborah Sontag delivered an 8,000-word whopper of bias for the Sunday magazine, profiling the "judicially active conservative" US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, based in Virginia. To Sontag, the fight for the soul of the Fourth Circuit pits compassionate upholders of individual rights versus business and Bush. She also wrote: "It would certainly help many Americans sustain their faith in the system if the courts could find their equilibrium, if they could become less ideological, less predictable and less political." But shouldn't courts, of all places, be predictable?