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BusinessWeek
April 25, 2005
Lorraine Woellert |
Inside Bush's Supreme Team With a Supreme Court vacancy looming this year, true-blue liberals, rabid-red conservatives, and activists of every stripe are amassing millions of dollars and mobilizing thousands of true believers for a war expected to eclipse every other legislative issue on the congressional agenda.   |
BusinessWeek
September 27, 2004 |
Punch, Counterpunch The roots of contemporary strife over the federal judiciary date back nearly five decades, starting with Chief Justice Earl Warren. |
BusinessWeek
November 22, 2004
Lorraine Woellert |
What The New Court Will Look Like Bush's model is Antonin Scalia. But nominees who share the justice's strict "textualist" approach could set off a firestorm of opposition |
BusinessWeek
September 27, 2004
France & Woellert |
The Battle Over The Courts Politics, ideology and special interests are compromising the U.S. justice system. And all the crossfire is driving away potential non-partisan judges. |
American History
December 14, 2004
David J. Garrow |
The Once and Future Supreme Court The last four decades have witnessed a fundamental transformation in the types of men, and now women, who exercise the broad and untrammeled judicial power of the U.S. Supreme Court. |
Salon.com
January 11, 2001
Alicia Montgomery |
Conservatives flex muscles over Ashcroft In a pugnacious appearance, right-wing groups serve notice to "liberal ideologues" that there's a new sheriff in town. |
Salon.com
May 10, 2001
Jake Tapper |
Holding court Bush unveils the beginning of his legacy -- the people he wants to shape the law. But Democrats are plotting to keep a say in the nominations... |
BusinessWeek
September 19, 2005
Lorraine Woellert |
Why Not Scalia The President surprised Washington and many of his conservative allies by tapping Judge John G. Roberts Jr. to serve as Chief Justice, thereby avoiding what would have been a nasty political fight over Scalia's nomination. |
Salon.com
September 25, 2000
Bruce Shapiro |
Memo to Nader voters Anyone who doesn't think there is any difference between Bush and Gore, just think about the Supreme Court. |
Salon.com
June 27, 2001
Alicia Montgomery |
To Bork or not to Bork Democrats give notice that ideology will play a role when the Senate considers Bush's judicial nominees... |
Salon.com
February 1, 2001
Alicia Montgomery |
Dems fold on Ashcroft And party activists are angry. James Carville says Democrats are giving their "unelected president" a free ride... |
BusinessWeek
February 10, 2011
Paul M. Barrett |
Attack of the Commerce Clause A new assault on regulation is gathering force -- and it's deploying a constitutional weapon |
Salon.com
January 8, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
John Ashcroft's big mistake He denied Ronnie White a federal judgeship for being soft on crime, when his real grudge was against his pro-choice politics -- and the move cost him his Senate seat... |
Salon.com
June 29, 2000
Bruce Shapiro |
Abortion in the spotlight A narrow ruling upholding late-term abortions makes reproductive rights -- and the Supreme Court itself -- a hot issue this election year. |
BusinessWeek
August 8, 2005
Lorraine Woellert |
States vs. The Feds: All Eyes On Roberts The fractious debate over federalism will be center stage at Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts confirmation hearings. |
Salon.com
January 16, 2001
Bruce Shapiro |
Can John Ashcroft be stopped? If the Clarence Thomas hearings are any guide, disorganized Democrats could be the Republican nominee's best friends... |
Reason
July 2005 |
Who Should Reign Supreme? Libertarian legal experts weigh in on who their favorites are--past, present, and future--on the nation's highest court. |
Salon.com
January 16, 2001
Alicia Montgomery |
The case for John Ashcroft Clint Bolick of the Institute for Justice says Ashcroft champions civil rights, rules by law and will make a great attorney general... |
Salon.com
January 8, 2001
David Horowitz |
First blood: The fight over Bush's cabinet The left's efforts to tar and feather Ashcroft and other conservative Bush appointees are as unfair as the smear campaign waged against Clarence Thomas 10 years ago... |
BusinessWeek
May 12, 2011
Tim Jones |
Secret Cash Dominates in State Court Races Unidentified contributors are pumping big money into key races. |
Salon.com
January 3, 2001
Gary Kamiya |
Skeletons in the Cabinet Democrats need to work with Bush. But they don't need right-wing dinosaurs like John Ashcroft and Gale Norton... |
Reason
July 2005 |
Not So Supreme A Court Divided: The Rehnquist Court and the Future of Constitutional Law author Mark Tushnet explains William Rehnquist's legal legacy--and why the nation's top court matters less than you think. |
BusinessWeek
May 23, 2005
Paul Magnusson |
They Backed Bush -- And Expect Him To Deliver The battle over President George W. Bush's judicial appointments threatens to kick up a firestorm over the intrusion of religion into politics. |
Inc.
June 2005
Allen P. Roberts Jr. |
Why Businesses Should Have Judge Dread Shouldn't a judicial nominee's thoughts on business law be scrutinized? |
Salon.com
November 29, 2000
Bruce Shapiro |
Why the Supreme Court case matters The Florida election may be determined in state court, but a ruling in Bush's favor could further the high court's cannibalistic long-term assault on judicial power... |
BusinessWeek
November 22, 2004
Dunham & Gleckman |
Can The GOP Get Down To Business? The Religious Right wants action on social issues that could distract Congress |
Salon.com
January 5, 2001
Alicia Montgomery |
Will Bush Cabinet picks get Borked? Liberal Democrats are gearing up to oppose the president-elect's most conservative choices. Here's a list of the most vulnerable nominees, and their enemies... |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2008
Nick Gillespie |
An Alliance for Freedom? Republican strategist Grover Norquist insists the Leave Us Alone Coalition is alive and well. |
Salon.com
November 12, 2002
Robert Scheer |
Showtime for the GOP Just remember, guys, no more excuses about Democrats obstructing the Republican platform. Your bluff has been called. |
Salon.com
November 7, 2000
Stephen Cohen |
Shameful emissions The Supreme Court weighs whether the EPA overstepped its authority -- and public health hangs in the balance... |
Salon.com
October 2, 2001
Laura Miller |
The wrong man for the job John Dean talks about Richard Nixon's backroom maneuverings in the appointment of Chief Justice Rehnquist... |
Salon.com
August 3, 2000
Adele Stan |
God wins! Pat Robertson puts a brave face on for his Christian Coalition, spinning against press that Bush is not his man. |
Salon.com
January 17, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
Why won't Rush Limbaugh denounce Ronnie White? Maybe he knows White is no more pro-criminal than his own cousin, Missouri Supreme Court Justice Stephen Limbaugh Jr.... |
Reason
May 2008
Matt Welch |
When Coalitions Dissolve As the GOP breaks apart, some blame the vanishing breed of free market Republicans. |
Salon.com
January 11, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
Get Ronnie White, Round 2 In their battle for Attorney General-designate John Ashcroft, Republicans are once again attacking the Missouri Supreme Court justice whose federal judgeship Ashcroft scuttled... |
Mother Jones
October 2000
Michael Kazin |
Good Bill On Bill Clinton: compassionate, open-minded, and none too courageous, Bill Clinton was exactly the president we deserved. |
Salon.com
December 22, 2000
Daryl Lindsey |
"A clear and present danger to American women" Pro-choice activists criticize the appointment of conservative John Ashcroft as the Bush administration's attorney general. |
Reason
October 2003
Cathy Young |
Bipartistan Coulterism Who's meaner, conservatives or liberals? |
Salon.com
January 18, 2001
Alicia Montgomery |
Round 2: Ashcroft wins over a Democrat Georgia's Zell Miller says he'll confirm the attorney general designate despite tough grilling on gun control and abortion by Kennedy, Schumer and Feinstein... |
Reason
March 2001
Richard A. Epstein |
George Bush won. But at what cost to the law? Constitutional litigation will return to normal, but the political battles are just getting started... |
Salon.com
October 2, 2000
Alicia Montgomery |
Conservatives in denial At a Christian Coalition gala, Prince Charming, staying put in Texas, sends his regards by videotape. Still, the group stands by its man... |
Salon.com
December 13, 2000 |
Split over the decision Two law professors offer two views of the Supreme Court ruling. Rotunda: The Florida court was acting like a psychic hot line; Raskin: The Supreme Court has disgraced itself... |
Reason
July 2005
Damon W. Root |
Unleash the Judges A principled form of libertarian judicial activism, therefore, is clearly consistent with the basic requirement of a free society: the protection of individual rights against the tyranny of the majority. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2008
W. James Antle |
Conservatives Against Empire The forgotten tradition of the antiwar right is remembered in Bill Kauffman's latest book. |
BusinessWeek
November 19, 2009 |
The Making of Two Anti-Reg Bulldogs Biographical data on two lawyers who would like to dismantle Sarbanes-Oxley regulations. |
BusinessWeek
November 21, 2005
Richard S. Dunham |
The Patriot Act: Business Balks Businesses are joining critics who seek to curb the Patriot Act's wide-ranging investigative powers. |
BusinessWeek
September 27, 2004
Alexandra Starr |
Democrats: A Hill Too Far? Not so long ago, Democrats were bragging that they could win back the Senate this November -- and it didn't seem like bravado. Now, two seats short of a Senate majority, the party faces a risk of backsliding. |
Reason
June 2008
David Weigel |
Union Rules The Democratic coalition rubs its hands at the prospect of taking over Washington. |
ifeminists
October 31, 2007
Richard Cordero |
Alert from Judicial Discipline Reform Out of the 7,462 complaints filed against federal judges in the 10-year period 1997-2006, they disciplined only 9 of their peers! These are official statistics that the judges must file by law with the highest administrative body of the federal judiciary. |
Reason
April 2009
Matt Welch |
The Liberaltarian Jackalope The liberal-libertarian rapprochement is probably dead on arrival. |
