Linda Greenhouse Quotes

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Forgive me for wondering whether the accommodation at hand would have been so vigorously resisted had any president other than Barack Obama been in office — or had the target of the objection not been women presuming to have sex without procreation.

Linda Greenhouse
Fifty years after the Supreme Court, in Griswold v. Connecticut, granted married couples the constitutional right to use birth control, here we are back at the court, still wrestling with contraception. Am I the only one who finds this remarkable?

Linda Greenhouse
So what we have here are the majority's policy preferences conveniently clad in First Amendment armor.

Linda Greenhouse
To accept the claims being made here is to plunge into a world where conviction clothed in religious garb, no matter how untethered from reality, can be permitted to impair the rights of non-adherents to the benefits designed by a secular government to apply to all.

Linda Greenhouse
In his vitriolic dissent last June from the Supreme Court's same-sex marriage decision, Justice Antonin Scalia accused the majority of having carried out a "judicial putsch." Justice Scalia should know. He and his four conservative colleagues were then in the process of executing one themselves.

Linda Greenhouse
Big Supreme Court cases don't arrive randomly at the justices' door. Rather, they are propelled by contending forces deep within American society, conflict eventually taking the shape of a legal dispute with sufficient resonance to claim the Supreme Court's attention.

Linda Greenhouse
It's no secret that in recent years, major segments of the Republican Party have declared open season on public employee unions — selectively, of course. Police unions and correctional officers' unions, which have stood in the way of reform-minded policy initiatives in states and cities across the country, have been exempt as targets.

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Many corporate executives have learned to live with affirmative action over the years, and even to welcome what they thought were clear rules that enabled them to increase diversity in their work forces without inviting lawsuits.

Linda Greenhouse