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It is confidence in the men and women who administer the judicial system that is the true backbone of the rule of law. Justice John Paul Stevens

• Bush v. Gore (separate page)
• Rulings: 2001-2002 Session
• Rulings: 2000-2001 Session
• The Justices (and Injustices)
• Contenders

Rulings 2001-2002 Session

• 'Narrowing the Nation's Power': Deconstructing Recent Supreme Court Decisions
  Linda Greenhouse, New York Times, 18 August 2002
• Court rules state interest in environmental protection trumps property rights
  Gina Holland, Associated Press (in the Washington Post), 23 April 2002
• Dues Ruling Is Favorable to Unions
  Steven Greenhouse, New York Times, 26 March 2002
• Supreme Court Eliminates a Barrier to Job Discrimination Plaintiffs
  Linda Greenhouse, New York Times, 27 February 2002
• Supreme Court Weighs How Far to Stretch 11th Amendment
  Linda Greenhouse, New York Times, 26 February 2002
• Terror could tilt high court away from states rights
  Warren Richey, Christian Science Monitor, 10 February 2002
• Court Rules on Police Searches of Motorists
  Linda Greenhouse, New York Times, 16 January 2002
• Supreme Court affirms agents' right to 'stop and search'
  Warren Richey, Christian Science Monitor, 15 January 2002

Rulings: 2000-2001 Session

• Curious Fallout From Bush v. Gore
  Alan M. Dershowitz, New York Times, 4 July 2001
• Supreme Court conservatives gut civil rights protections
  David Dante Troutt, New York Times, 28 April 2001
• The Supreme Court v. Balance of Powers
  Larry D. Kramer (professor of law at New York University), New York Times, 3 March 2001
• The Court Usurps Congressional Power
  editorial, New York Times, 22 February 2001

Justices (and Injustices)

• The Most Dangerous Branch?
  Simon Lazarus, The Atlantic, June 2002
• Sandra Day O'Connor
  • The O'Connor Court: America's Most Powerful Jurist
    Jeffrey Rosen, New York Times, 3 June 2001
• William Rehnquist
  • Justice Rehnquist's Ominous History of Wartime Freedom
    Adam Cohen, New York Times, 22 September 2002
  • Chief justice gets cheers, jeers in visit to Shorewood
    Nahal Toosi, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 25 May 2002
  • How Nixon's Rehnquist nomination screwed up the way we pick judges
    David Greenberg, Washington Monthly, December 2001
  • Rehnquist -- Political Puppeteer
    Robert Parry, Consortium News, 29 January 2001
  • Rehnquist's Racist Background
    Dennis Roddy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2 December
• Antonin Scalia
  • Scalia Describes 'Dangerous' Trend of Expanding Rights
    Daniel J. Hemel, The Harvard Crimson, 29 September 2004
  • Scalia's talk to antigay group spurs ethics questions
    Richard A. Serrano and David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times (in the Boston Globe), 8 March 2004
  • No shades of gray for Scalia
    Joan Biskupic, USA Today, 19 September 2002
  • The Unprincipled Jurisprudence of Justice Scalia
    Sherry F. Colb, FindLaw, 20 December 2000
• Clarence Thomas
  • Clarence Thomas -- many blacks like idea, dislike reality
    Trevor Coleman, Detroit Free Press, 5 July 2001
  • Thomas Book Author Says He Lied in His Attacks on Anita Hill
    Alex Kuczynski and William Glaberson, New York Times, 26 June 2001
  • Clarence Thomas Declares His Conservative Agenda
    David Skinner, Salon, 15 February 2001
  • Job of Thomas's Wife Raises Conflict-of-Interest Questions
    Christopher Marquis, New York Times, 12 December 2000

Contenders

• Alberto Gonzales considered a potential SC nominee
  Lois Romano, Washington Post, 10 July 2001
• Interest Groups Set for Battle on a Supreme Court Vacancy
  Robin Toner, New York Times, 21 April 2001

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