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Supreme Court

• November 8 -- No More Clarence Thomases!
Some advice for Democrats.

• November 5 -- A Specter Looming Over Bush's Sunny Week
The Times takes a step back from the election with broad-based, mostly respectful stories on how values-oriented voters put Bush over the top. But the paper doesn’t miss a chance to stir controversy, fronting a story on Republican Sen. Arlen Specter comments on abortion.

• November 4 -- Beware Bush's Supreme Court Nominees
The Times talks of "strict conservative" nominees to the Supreme Court.

• October 18 -- Making Ted Kennedy Look Moderate
Editorial writer Adam Cohen lays out the fearsome fruits of a potential second term for Bush: "Abortion might be a crime in most states. Gay people could be thrown in prison for having sex in their homes. States might be free to become mini-theocracies, endorsing Christianity and using tax money to help spread the gospel."

• April 13 -- Taking Another Quack at Scalia
Dredging up Justice Scalia's "Duck-Gate."

• March 25 -- God -- I Mean Gosh -- I Admire You
Linda Greenhouse admires adamant atheist Michael Newdow's Supreme Court testimony: "…no one who managed to get a seat in the courtroom is likely ever to forget his spell-binding performance."

• 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."

• January 14 -- A "Mean Mood" in US Knocks Down Liberal Legislation
Liberal editorial writer Adam Cohen laments the "mean mood" that's settled on the country and bashes a Supreme Court that's "made it easier to discriminate against older workers, blind people and cancer victims."

• 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."

• October 22 -- Linda Greenhouse Fights Godless Communism
Linda Greenhouse remembers "…having laboriously learned the Pledge without 'under God,' all of a sudden, 'under God' came in; it was a federal law. And I didn't realize at the time that I had become a foot soldier in the war against Godless communism."

• July 1 -- The “Conservative” Supreme Court?
Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse marvels on the court’s “amazing final week.” Even more amazing: Greenhouse still believes the court lacks liberal voices.

• June 30 -- Bill Keller Stands Up For Discrimination
Columnist Bill Keller, Howell Raines’ possible successor, sounds downright Rainesian on race issues. Keller’s Sunday op-ed lauds discrimination and calls Clarence Thomas “a black jurist of questionable distinction.”

• June 27 -- Angry Conservatives vs. Happy Gays
The Times goes label-happy on conservatives in its coverage of the Supreme Court’s sodomy ruling.

• June 24 -- Old Liberal Labeling Habits Die Hard
Meet Sen. Ted Kennedy, “Democrat of Massachusetts”
Neil Lewis’s Supreme Court story uses the term “conservative” 12 times and calls Sen. Orrin Hatch a “leading conservative,” while ultra-liberal Sen. Ted Kennedy is simply a “Democrat of Massachusetts.”

• June 24 -- Embracing “Diversity”
Linda Greenhouse on the Supreme Court’s “forceful endorsement of the role of racial diversity on campus in achieving a more equal society.”

• June 24 -- Greenhouse’s Gaseous Grasp on Supreme Court Politics
Before the Supreme Court ruling upholding racial preferences, reporter Linda Greenhouse wrote an analysis absurdly claiming the Court lacks liberal voices.

• 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?

• April 3 -- The Times Parrots The Military Line--On One Issue
The Times pits the “nuanced” liberal view of racial preferences versus the “absolutist” conservative one and drops its skepticism toward the military—because some retired officers are on the Times side.