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Jeffrey Rosen
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Jeffrey Rosen has been legal affairs editor of The New Republic since 1992. He is also a Professor of Law at George Washington University. His most recent book is The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America. His other books include The Most Democratic Branch, The Naked Crowd, and The Unwanted Gaze. Rosen is a graduate of Harvard College, summa cum laude; Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar; and Yale Law School. His essays and commentaries have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, on National Public Radio, and in The New Yorker. The Chicago Tribune named him one of the ten best magazine journalists in America and the Los Angeles Times called him "the nation's most widely read and influential legal commentator." He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife Christine Rosen and two sons.
RECENT ARTICLES:
John Roberts, centrist?; Partial Solution
Post date 12 11, 06
As always, Democratic candidates in the last election warned thatconservative Supreme Court justices would threaten abortion rights.So it was especially appropriate that, as Democrats werecelebrating their victory on the morning of November 8, the Courtwas hearing oral arguments in two cases that many liberals fearcould signal the beginning of the end for Roe v. Wade. The cases,which concern the federal ban on partial-birth abortion, are similarto a case the Court decided in 2000 involving the constitutionalityof partial- birth abortion bans in 29 states. Justice Sandra DayO'Connor provided a tie- breaking vote for the liberal side in thatruling. Now that she has been replaced by Justice Samuel Alito,pro-choicers worry that the Court may finally get serious aboutundoing Roe.		The subpoena wars.; House Arrest
Post date 11 20, 06
On the eve of losing the House, the Republican National Committeesent journalists a frantic e-mail. "Who is Rep. John Conyers(D-MI)?" the missive asked, referring to the man now slated to leadthe House Judiciary Committee. "A radical Democrat who wouldpromote an agenda of investigation, obstruction, impeachment anddisarmament."
Bush v. Times.; Full Court Press
Post date 11 13, 06
Bill Keller can't sleep. It is four o'clock on a sticky morning inthe summer of 2007, and the executive editor of The New York Timesis pacing his home, cursing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Hereis the root of his insomnia: A few months earlier, the Democratsrecaptured the House. In a vindictive mood, Judiciary CommitteeChairman John Conyers and his newly installed colleagues beganraining subpoenas down upon the administration, forcing officialsto answer embarrassing questions and producing photos ofshell-shocked Bushies standing with their right hands in the air.