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May 18, 2005

Hentoff On Brown

Nat Hentoff takes on the Times in re Janice Rogers Brown.


Editorials in The New York Times are the plenary voice of that newspaper. Accordingly, editorial writers should be as accountable as the Times' reporters—when the editorial sages ignore the facts in a story and deeply sully someone's reputation. [Got that, Jim Boyd?]

A reckless case in point is the first editorial in the April 28 edition, "Leading With the Women," in which Justice Janice Rogers Brown is unequivocally described as "an extreme right-wing ideologue." Moreover, the editorial adds, "Justice Brown [a member of the California Supreme Court]—a black woman raised in segregated Alabama—is a consistent enemy of minorities."

Read the whole thing.

Posted by Mitch at May 18, 2005 07:33 AM | TrackBack
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I now think THE most important quality for the highest judicial appointments is their proven ability to mount a lonely dissent, as Brown has. At least then, you're fairly sure what you're getting. Better than those who go along to get along, till that day when they have the power to turn the world upside-down, and they decide they like the that power. The judges who scare me are the uncontroversial ones--uncontroversial, because they've never taken an unpopular stand in their life. Those are the ones who later find "spirits of the law" and "penumbras" in the Constitution--"Oh, finally, my chance to make the world perfect...."

Posted by: RBMN at May 18, 2005 08:36 AM

And he (Hentoff) was just getting started. He mounts an extraordinarily strong defense of Ms. Brown.

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