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Anthony Lewis: Pioneer In The Court’S Pressroom, Lyle Denniston
Anthony Lewis: Pioneer In The Court’S Pressroom, Lyle Denniston
Missouri Law Review
Journalists, whether they know it or not, and whether or not they would admit it, are profoundly influenced by the eras in which they live and by the ideas which make up their daily news conversation. Tony Lewis was America’s witness to “the Warren Court,” and it forever made him a believing liberal. (He may have been the only reporter covering the Supreme Court who would have understood why that Court was “liberal” rather than “progressive,” which is the more fashionable word for what passes for liberalism today with its strong echoes of early twentieth century progressivism.)
The Rigorous Romantic: Anthony Lewis On The Supreme Court Beat, Linda Greenhouse
The Rigorous Romantic: Anthony Lewis On The Supreme Court Beat, Linda Greenhouse
Missouri Law Review
Tony Lewis called himself “a romantic about the Supreme Court.” If he had not been a romantic when he took up the beat for the New York Times in 1957, he surely would have become one as, for the next seven years, he chronicled the Warren Court’s progressive constitutional revolution at the peak of its energy and transformative power. To list just some of the landmark opinions the Court issued during those seven years is to prove the point: Cooper v. Aaron, Mapp v. Ohio, Baker v. Carr, Engel v. Vitale, Gideon v. Wainwright, Brady v. Maryland, School District of …