Thursday, March 22, 2012

GANGING UP ON GREENHOUSE

Linda Greenhouse used to cover the Supreme Court for the NY Times and now is one of the NYT's bloggers.  She has an impressive background:
Linda Greenhouse is a Senior Research Scholar in Law, the Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. She covered the Supreme Court for The New York Times between 1978 and 2008 and currently writes a biweekly column on law. Ms. Greenhouse is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, where she serves on the council, and is one of two non-lawyer honorary members of the American Law Institute, which in 2002 awarded her its Henry J. Friendly Medal. She is a national board member of the American Constitution Society and a member of the Council of the American Philosophical Society, which in 2005 awarded her its Henry Allen Moe Prize for writing in the humanities and jurisprudence. She is a member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers and of the Senate of Phi Beta Kappa. She is a 1968 graduate of Radcliffe College (Harvard), where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She earned a Master of Studies in Law degree from Yale Law School (1978), which she attended on a Ford Foundation fellowship.

Today I heard Mark "Foamer" Levin attack her post which argues that Obamacare is constitutional but his critique didn't make much sense so I read her post and it seems to be in line with others who have argued that the Court, based on recent decisions, will rule that Obamacare is legal. If Justice Scalia rules in the law's favor, as seems likely, then I can't see how the "constitutional conservatives" will be able to argue that he's a liberal.

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