The Times' agenda is clear: you are the conscience of the Court, Anthony, and a good person. We will glorify you in the press unless you throw in with that awful Roberts. Five will get you ten it works, too. Kennedy is spineless and his eager-to-please-the-liberal-press opinions are absurd and unsupportable by precedent or the Constitution.
"The Times' agenda is clear: you are the conscience of the Court, Anthony, and a good person. We will glorify you in the press unless you throw in with that awful Roberts. "
Bingo.
If Kennedy votes to uphold murdering unborn babies, the Catholic Church should excommunicate him.
Just so. Linda Greenhouse is the Times's very special Supreme Court reporter, so her approval is very important to someone like Kennedy.
Even more important, he wants to be lionized on the DC cocktail party circuit.