Don't cry for me John Paul Stevens
A Bloomberg.com end-of-term preview of the Supreme Court laments that Chief Justice Roberts isn't getting the consensus he promised.
The dissenters are making no secret of their dismay about the direction of the court. Three times since April, one of them has read a summary of the dissent from the bench, a step that typically occurs no more than three times in an entire nine- month term.I'd love it if the Justices could rule more on the law and cut down on all the nonsense. But I'll settle for winning more often, as is apparently the case from all the whining coming from the penumbra side of the Court.In two of those cases, Ginsburg, 74, the only female justice, accused the majority of callousness toward women. The abortion decision, she said, reflected ``ancient notions about women's place in the family and under the Constitution.''
In the pay-disparity case, Ginsburg said from the bench that the majority ``does not comprehend, or is indifferent to, the insidious way in which women can be victims of pay discrimination.''
UPDATE: Apparently, Bloomberg needs a little bit of patience. According to The New York Sun, the Court issued rulings in five cases yesterday, the same day the Bloomberg article appeared. All five were unanimous.
