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Stupak is as Stupak Does

Is it worth sacrificing health care reform for ideological purity on abortion? That’s the question Democrats are facing after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, to avoid derailing health care legislation, reluctantly accepted an amendment offered by Michigan ...

From JEFFREY ROSEN, The New Republic,  13 Nov 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Nancy Pelosi,  Bart Stupak,  U.S. Senate,  Barack Obama

TNR Debate: Too Much Transparency? (Part III)

Lawrence Lessig argues convincingly that there are dangers in systematically favoring transparency over privacy: A thoughtful democracy should strike a balance between both values, which sometimes compete and sometimes reinforce each other. I found ...

From JEFFREY ROSEN, The New Republic,  13 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Lawrence Lessig,  Central Intelligence Agency,  George W. Bush,  Jerrold Nadler

Net Cemetery

Network neutrality--that’s now the official policy of the Obama administration, announced last month by the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Julius Genachowski. It’s a development that could be more significant to the future ...

From JEFFREY ROSEN, The New Republic,  12 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Comcast,  Federal Communications Commission,  Barack Obama,  Julius Genachowski,  New York Times Company

Op-Ed Contributor: The Trial of John Roberts

FOUR years ago, when John Roberts became chief justice of the United States, he said that he hoped to emulate the modesty and unanimity of his greatest predecessor, John Marshall. But if Chief Justice Roberts presides over a broad, ideologically ...

From JEFFREY ROSEN, International Herald Tribune,  12 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Earl Warren,  John Roberts,  Clarence Thomas,  Antonin Scalia,  Anthony Kennedy

Book Review: 'Packing the Court' by James MacGregor Burns

The history of the Supreme Court is too important to be monopolized by lawyers. It's a welcome development, therefore, that James MacGregor Burns, one of America's most distinguished historians of presidential power and leadership, has turned his ...

From JEFFREY ROSEN, The Washington Post,  2 Jul 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  George W. Bush,  George Washington University,  Sandra Day O'Connor,  Felix Frankfurter

[Special Issue Review] The Increasing Complexity of the Cancer Stem Cell Paradigm

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From JEFFREY M. ROSEN, Science,  26 Jun 2009

Sotto Voce: The Sonia Sotomayor You Don't Know

A tip from an informant led Detective Amando Rodriguez and Sergeant Diane Contreras to the stash house--actually a New York City apartment--which they had good reason to think contained a substantial haul of drugs. The suspicion was confirmed when they ...

From JEFFREY ROSEN, The New Republic,  15 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Sonia Sotomayor,  New York Times Company,  Adam Liptak,  Barack Obama,  Richard Posner

The Craftsman and the Nihilist

The publication of Gerald Gunther's biography of Learned Hand is a canonical sort of event. Hand never made it to the Supreme Court, but he is generally ranked, as Gunther emphasizes at the beginning of his book, in the more rarefied company of ...

From JEFFREY ROSEN, The New Republic,  1 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Harvard University,  Felix Frankfurter,  Stephen Breyer,  Henry Adams

The Right Pick? TNR debates Obama's First Supreme Court Appointment.

You must be logged-in to comment. Not a subscriber? Click here to get a digital or print and digital subscription to The New Republic! Watching various news segments on the Sotomayer nomination, I was struck by liberals bending over backwards to ...

From ERWIN CHEMERINSKY, ALAN DERSHOWITZ, RANDALL KENNEDY, TOM GOLDSTEIN, AND JEFFREY ROSEN, The New Republic,  27 May 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  The New Republic,  U.S. Congress,  George W. Bush

Magazine Preview: What’s a Liberal Justice Now?

When talking about the Supreme Court, Barack Obama has resisted the familiar ideological categories that have defined our judicial battles for the past several decades. He has made clear that despite his progressive inclinations, he is not a ...

From JEFFREY ROSEN, The New York Times,  26 May 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Antonin Scalia,  George W. Bush,  Earl Warren,  Bill Clinton

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