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Nov 28, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | Linda Greenhouse
Donald Trump’s election places a new burden on a Supreme Court already operating under a harsh public spotlight. This is a Court, after all, that in recent months has rejected a constitutional challenge to Trump’s ballot eligibility and granted him a stunning measure of immunity from criminal prosecution.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
sltrib.com | Linda Greenhouse
Although I've heard every argument about abortion, pro and con, over the years, the anti-abortion case made by three Republican-led states in a recent Federal District Court filing stopped me in my tracks.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Linda Greenhouse
Although I've heard every argument about abortion, pro and con, over the years, the anti-abortion case made by three Republican-led states in a recent Federal District Court filing stopped me in my tracks.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
almendron.com | Ben Tarnoff |Bill McKibben |Garry Wills |Linda Greenhouse
Ben TarnoffDonald Trump has spent nearly a decade discombobulating people who are paid to think about politics. His appeal has been consistently underestimated. It has also been, just as consistently, overcomplicated. The substance of his style is simple: a gleeful hostility toward the institutions that have traditionally organized American life. He positions himself not merely as an outsider but as a destroyer: someone who delights in the demolition of norms and normalcy.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | Garry Wills |Linda Greenhouse |Michael Hofmann |Bill McKibben
Ben Tarnoff • Zephyr Teachout • Bill McKibben • Michael Hofmann • Linda Greenhouse • Garry Wills* Donald Trump has spent nearly a decade discombobulating people who are paid to think about politics. His appeal has been consistently underestimated. It has also been, just as consistently, overcomplicated. The substance of his style is simple: a gleeful hostility toward the institutions that have traditionally organized American life.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Linda Greenhouse
The most important decision the Supreme Court's justices will make in the new term that begins on Monday transcends the questions presented in any of its many cases. It is whether the court will resume or refrain from injecting itself into the country's culture wars. Although it may be hard at this point to remember anything about the court's last term aside from the presidential immunity decision with which it ended, the fact is that the term was largely devoid of culture war material.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
portside.org | Linda Greenhouse
Are Sheriffs Above the Law? Published September 22, 2024 Reviewed:The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracyby Jessica PishkoDutton, 468 pp., $32.00For many of us who grew up watching the weekly adventures of Robin Hood on a black-and-white television screen, the word “sheriff” conjures the dogged lawman of Nottingham chasing the noble bandit through Sherwood Forest.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | Linda Greenhouse
For many of us who grew up watching the weekly adventures of Robin Hood on a black-and-white television screen, the word “sheriff” conjures the dogged lawman of Nottingham chasing the noble bandit through Sherwood Forest. Today’s most recognizable sheriff may be the rabidly anti-immigrant Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Linda Greenhouse
Given the breathtaking sweep of the Supreme Court's decisions in the final days of its term, it's easy to overlook a decision that had no sweep at all because it was a decision not to decide. I'm referring to the court's dismissal of the case about whether Idaho can violate federal law by barring hospitals from performing emergency abortions for women whose pregnancies present a severe threat not necessarily to their life but to their health, including their future fertility.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
prensalibre.com | Linda Greenhouse
Es evidente que la opinión sucinta de 18 páginas del magistrado presidente no satisfizo por completo a todos los que la firmaron. Los nueve miembros de la Corte Suprema se asomaron al abismo. Sobre ellos se cernía una desagradable decisión.
