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A Hair-Raising SCOTUS Curtain-Raiser

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

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The Supreme Court Press Cord Is Not a Proxy for a Functioning Institution

Mark O'Mara: Just because the justices can show their good sides, doesn't mean that they aren't ultimately still super legislators in robes. He says reporters should drop convention of referring to justices as liberals and conservatives or rit democratic appointed or republican appointed. And he wants journalists to shift away from name brand voices who get quoted in these articles. Noa feltman: I would like to see more journalists just call judges and justices deocrats and republicans; it's most reliable indicator of how a justice is going to vote.

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