NYT SCOTUS Scribe Wants Dobbs' Justices Sorry for 'Chaos and Misery'

June 29th, 2023 10:12 PM

Linda Greenhouse was the New York Times’ liberally slanted Supreme Court reporter for 30 years until 2008, and now writes occasional opinion pieces on her lifelong obsession of abortion. She even participated in an abortion rally in 1989 while a journalist covering the Supreme Court, in defiance of journalistic standards of objectivity. Greenhouse authored a guest essay for Saturday’s…

NY Times Takes End of Roe v Wade Hard: 'Requiem for the Supreme Court'

June 27th, 2022 6:01 PM

The initial New York Times news coverage of the Supreme Court’s historical overruling of the abortion ruling Roe v. Wade was surprisingly sedate. But former Supreme Court correspondent Linda Greenhouse was seething with anger in a Sunday op-ed, “A Requiem for the Supreme Court.” 

With Roe Threatened, NYT Dumps 'Pregnant People' and Finds 'Women'

May 8th, 2022 6:45 PM

Linda Greenhouse reported on the Supreme Court for the New York Times for 30 years. Since then, she’s appeared in the paper on a regular basis giving her fiercely pro-choice opinions. So it’s no surprise she had a say about the shocking leak of a draft opinion that appears to overturn the Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade decision legalizing abortion nationwide. Sunday’s edition…

Ex-NYT Scribe SEETHES: ‘How Low Will' the GOP 'Go?'

April 3rd, 2022 10:04 PM

As the Senate vote approaches to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, former New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse laid into Republican senators for daring to question Biden’s nominee. In the Sunday Review, “On Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, How Low Will Senate Republicans Go?” Greenhouse, freed from pro forma expectations of journalistic objectivity, was…

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Media Ignored Chief Justice Roberts Warning on Meddling with Judiciary

January 4th, 2022 2:50 PM

Joel Pollak at Breitbart reported Sunday that Chief Justice John Roberts of the U.S. Supreme Court blasted attempts to exert “inappropriate political influence” in his year-end report for 2021, as President Biden and the Democrats have pondered proposals to expand or pack the Court with liberals. Roberts did not explicitly mention the court-packing talk, and the liberal media ignored it. That'…

NY Times Veteran SCOTUS Scribe Loves Abortion, Loathes Justice Barrett

January 3rd, 2022 7:23 AM

Bad news, folks: Times columnist Linda Greenhouse finds today’s conservative-leaning Supreme Court severely disappointing. But even a liberal law professor thinks she’s going a bit overboard with her hostility. Greenhouse covered the Supreme Court as a reporter for 30 years (1978-2008). When she left the paper’s beat, she wrote “we have, most likely, the Supreme Court we deserve.”…

Ex-NYT Reporter Yells About 'Weaponized' Court to Defend Abortion

December 18th, 2021 2:30 PM

After years of ideologically tinged Supreme Court decisions on gay marriage and campaign finance that pleased the left, suddenly the left is horrified if some those sloppy, politicized decisions may be thrown out.Linda Greenhouse, a former Supreme Court reporter for the New York Times, still opines for the paper, and she is on a jihad against the current Court, now with three…

Pathetic: Roe Under Fire, NYT Again Finds SCOTUS Credibility at Stake

December 5th, 2021 5:21 PM

Adam Liptak, Supreme Court reporter for the New York Times, sent up a warning flare for the right-leaning Supreme Court: Don’t mess with Roe v. Wade. His Sunday analysis, “As Roe Teeters, Belief in Court Could Tilt, Too” suggested court’s credibility was (conveniently) at stake. The online headline: "Critical Moment for Roe, and the Supreme Court’s Legitimacy."

NYT's Fact-Free Flaying of Justice Barrett’s ‘Grievance Conservatism'

December 8th, 2020 7:05 AM

The New York Times’ former Supreme Court-beat reporter Linda Greenhouse is still writing for the paper, and any residual sense of objectivity has been jettisoned, as shown by last week’s screed on the newest member of the court: “Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Choice -- Will she join the Supreme Court’s grievance conservatives?” Ostensibly, Greenhouse was writing about the recently…

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NYT's Greenhouse Warns RBG Replacement Could Back 'Voter Suppression'

September 20th, 2020 7:51 AM

Appearing as a guest Friday night during MSNBC coverage of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's passing, New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse fretted that a more conservative U.S. Supreme Court would facilitate "voter suppression" against felons and support "phony" complaints about racial discrimination against whites and Asians in college admissions.

NY Times SCOTUS Reporter Made Monthly Donations to Planned Parenthood

October 27th, 2017 3:00 PM
Former New York Times reporter Linda Greenhouse is really letting it all hang out in her new book, writing about how she was thrilled to violate all the norms of "objective" journalism while working at the Times. Monthly donations to Planned Parenthood, marching for abortion rights, attending fundraisers for Democrats: she did it all, and she's glad she did. Washington Post book critic Carlos…

NYT: Making Women Pay for Own Birth Control Is Like Saudi Arabia

October 12th, 2017 1:43 PM
Because of recent measures the White House has taken to expand protection of religious and moral rights, the print media has been on an outright crusade against Trump, with two newspapers accusing him of imposing a “religious theocracy” on American women.

NYT's Greenhouse Hits Scalia, Says TX Abortion Law Bash Just 'Facts'

February 29th, 2016 3:21 PM
As Supreme Court arguments loom next week for an abortion-rights case in Texas, the New York Times went all-in, with its former Supreme Court reporter and fervent abortion supporter Linda Greenhouse making the case on the front of the Sunday Review section. While Greenhouse claimed a factual approach, she predictably attacked the Texas clinic regulations as an obvious smoke-screen for an anti-…

NYT's Greenhouse Goes In for Left-Wing 'Rabble-Rousing' on Voter ID

March 20th, 2015 2:20 PM
Former New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse, pontificating from her regular perch at nytimes.com, unapologetically urged the conservative Supreme Court justices to embrace left-wing emotional and political symbolism on voting rights: "Would the court really have had the nerve to do it, with the memories of the march’s veterans still echoing for the world to hear and with…