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The XX Factor: Slate women blog about politics, etc...
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Judith your In Treatment post calls to mind another dim cultural memory — of Clarence Thomas’ stunning autobiography (I reviewed it here ) and the ways in which Justice Thomas both worships the grandfather who raised him and is scarred by him. Thomas Read More...
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It would have been just one more distressing story about a controversial, possibly threatening student essay; gun possession on campus ; and an expulsion and involuntary hospitalization in Virginia. There are almost too many layers to untangle: The 23-year-old Read More...
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My friend Corey Owens takes me to school for last week's gender-based generalizations . . . . Guest post follows: Not to stand between you and your spitball-straw, but "...if women ever ran the country"...?!? Come on. The not-so-subtle suggestion that Read More...
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In just over a week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in the most important gun rights case of our lifetimes. And two days ago, the student body president for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was shot to death in a residential Read More...
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Last week, we posted a message from frequent Slate contributor Walter Dellinger about a recent controversy over New York Times reporter Linda Greenhouse. In an e-mail to Ed Whelan at the National Review Online , Dellinger retracted the last sentence of Read More...
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And still on the subject of bias in Supreme Court reporting , longtime Slate contributor and appellate attorney Walter Dellinger writes in the following e-mail: A former academic colleague of mine once said a very wise thing about "bias": "The worst kind Read More...
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Dunno, Emily ... I, for one, am glad that Ed Whelan at NRO has outed us as raging drunks . To me, the remarkable aspect of the assault on Greenhouse is—as you point out—that she warrants such extra-special crazy-ass contempt from the right wing. She’s Read More...
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Ed Whelan at NRO didn't like the piece Dahlia and I wrote yesterday defending Linda Greenhouse. We're not eager for a tit for tat. But it seems worth repeating that our basic point, which Whelan ignores, is that critics on the right go after Greenhouse Read More...
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A nice point, Emily, about the dangers of looking at Sandra Day O’Connor through pink-colored glasses. You’re right to say that there are heaps of women judges who don’t employ O’Connor’s Miz Fixit hospital-corners jurisprudential style. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Read More...
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Dahlia , Emily —Do you really believe there is a female style of judging—pragmatic and non-ideological—and that O'Connor embodies it? Doesn't Ginsburg operate from a clear set of principals—do you constantly wonder where she'll come down before an opinion Read More...
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Another thought: If O'Connor's pragmatic, this-case-only approach to judging is particularly female, then maybe that helps explain why male commentators tended to excoriate her for it. I don't think this explains all the frustration with her jurisprudence Read More...
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I miss Sandra Day O’Connor. I always forget how much I miss her until I see her talk , as I did yesterday, at a conference at the Law Library of Congress on the need for competent counsel. The conference was co-sponsored by the Constitution Project. The Read More...
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