WashPost Pushes Feminist Complaints, Puffs Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Late
Update posted below w/link to NRO's Bench Memos.
"Over Ginsburg's Dissent, Court Limits Bias Suits," blared the May 30 front page headline by the Washington Post Supreme Court reporter Robert Barnes. While the 5-4 ruling in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.
hinged on a plain and simple application of a 1964 federal law, Barnes
front-loaded his article with the dissent of liberal…
Reporter Hints Silent Clarence Thomas an Intellectually-Challenged Jur
Update/Related (17:38 EDT): The Wall Street Journal's Law Blog started an open thread on Thomas's lack of questions during oral arguments here.USA Today's "On Deadline" blog this morning picked up on a 5-day old McClatchy Newspapers item that showed Justice Clarence Thomas spoke exactly zero words during Supreme Court oral arguments since February. The original article it referred to seemed to…
WashPost: Court Ruling Puts Gun Grabbing DC Govt. 'On the Spot
In today's Washington Post, staff writer Carol Leonnig heavily
skewed in favor of the District of Columbia gun ban. The stringent 1976
gun law was overturned earlier this year by a three-judge panel of the
D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals but may be appealed to the Supreme Court. Notice the skew of the article in favor of the D.C. government's position in the first two paragraphs of "Gun Ban Ruling…
