The elected wing of the GOP knows better. The entertainment wing -- Rush, Coulter et al. -- has a different agenda.
By Gene Lyons Jun 4, 2009
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Not if one is a divorced Latina. Sotomayor would be a positive influence on the court's five male Catholics.
By Frances Kissling
May 31, 2009
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Why do Republicans think Sotomayor is a mediocre beneficiary of affirmative action? Because they had their own.
By Joe Conason
May 29, 2009
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Blacks who challenge affirmative action and other "black orthodoxies" are not betraying their race. Or so argues author Randall Kennedy.
By James Hannaham
January 21, 2008
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Next week, when the Supreme Court hears a case challenging the use of lethal injections, we may learn more about the legal limits to state-sanctioned pain.
By Alan Berlow
January 2, 2008
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How can a justice with such a keen sense of his own persecution be so blind to others'?
By Tim Grieve
October 1, 2007
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Jeffrey Toobin's new book peeks inside the sheltered world of the Supreme Court justices. Are the unpredictable personal dynamics among the justices more important than the agenda they brought with them?
By Garrett Epps
September 13, 2007
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That attitude, says Marcus Mabry in his new biography of the secretary of state, has seriously harmed the United States.
By Joe Conason
May 4, 2007
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Clarence Thomas says his colleagues aren't familiar with the ways of war. Tell it to John Paul Stevens.
By Tim Grieve
June 30, 2006
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Clarence Thomas says we need to pray for George W. Bush.
By Tim Grieve
May 22, 2006
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In his first dissent, the chief justice aligns himself with the far right.
By Tim Grieve
January 17, 2006
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Born-again Christians say they're unrepresented. But Clarence Thomas was an evangelical when he joined the court.
By Amy Sullivan
October 6, 2005
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Echoing his father's comments about Clarence Thomas, the president says that his Supreme Court nominee is "plenty bright" and the most qualified person for the job.
By Tim Grieve
October 4, 2005
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Legal scholar Cass Sunstein explains the dangers of "fundamentalist" judges on the Supreme Court, why conservatives should fear right-wing radicals as much as liberals, and what went wrong with Roe v. Wade.
By J.J. Helland
September 12, 2005
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Unless senators discover a skeleton in his closet, the nomination fight is over before it even begins.
By Tim Grieve
July 21, 2005
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The looming filibuster showdown is likely to be triggered by Priscilla Owen, who was accused of judicial activism by an unlikely foe -- Alberto Gonzales.
By Eric Boehlert
May 3, 2005
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With William Rehnquist and Sandra Day O'Connor considering retirement, activists on all sides are preparing for a firefight over Bush's next high-court nominee.
By Tim Grieve
June 27, 2003
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With its allies now controlling Congress and the White House, the religious right launches a crusade to cleanse America of sin. The first battlefield: Women's bodies.
By Louise Witt
January 3, 2003
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Clarence Thomas says marijuana has no medical use. Maybe he'd like to try my cancer
By Dan Shapiro
May 15, 2001
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If the Clarence Thomas hearings are any guide, disorganized Democrats could be the Republican nominee's best friends.
By Bruce Shapiro
January 16, 2001
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Betsey Johnson's left breast disappears under veil of secrecy, NP leaks the story. Plus: Real-life Erin Brockovich extorted by scumbag exes; and Amy Irving ponders significance of oyster predilection
By Amy Reiter
May 1, 2000
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The recent Supreme Court decision on nude dancing had Justice O'Connor ruling on G-strings and pasties.
By Virginia Vitzthum
April 4, 2000
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Long ago His Honor paid 10 bucks for a Bolshevik broadsheet. I wonder where it's hanging now.
By Jock O'Connell
November 18, 1999
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The former chief of staff to Sen. Max Baucus claims he sexually harassed her, then fired her, but the senator tells an entirely different story -- that she was relentlessly abusing his staff.
By Susan Crabtree
September 18, 1999
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Of course there are blacks on TV. You just have to pay to see them.
By Joyce Millman
August 23, 1999
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