COHEN: The poor would have then been given a very powerful legal tool to use in a lot of different contexts to challenge a lot of ways in which they're harmed. In the 1920s - my last book was about how the court very actively embraced the eugenics movement. Bodywork: Do we need his and hers multivitamins? Adam Cohen, a former TIME senior writer and former member of the New York Times editorial board, teaches at Yale Law School. GROSS: While we're on the subject of campaigns, talk about how the court has dealt with voting rights in recent years. And part of the reason was that he didn't really know exactly where Warren would come out, but part of it was, they just weren't as focused as we are now on the exact politics of people. And in many ways, it seemed that telling stories as a journalist and revealing facts that were not known and making arguments - you know, I spent quite a few years on The New York Times editorial board - making arguments might be a more effective way in this era to effect change than to hope for a kind of 1960s-style judge-led rights revolution. His legal column appears on TIME.com every Monday. We are joined now by its author, Adam Cohen, a lawyer, a journalist… Joan Biskupic’s “The Chief” examines John Roberts’s life and his career on the Supreme Court. It says that there is no obligation to treat children in different school districts equally. He also works in the administration of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. And he gets that chief justice appointment - very exciting. At the ACLU, I was in a unit that they had set up in the national office working on race and poverty. Adam Cohen is an American journalist, author, lawyer, and former assistant editorial page editor of The New York Times. And after that Dandridge case, on and on and on, the court began to rule against the poor and to make clear that they didn't care about things like whether welfare was fair. GROSS: There's something about the process of nominating and confirming Supreme Court justices that seems to have changed. [1] He also works in the administration of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.. The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America. COHEN: When I worked in Alabama at the Southern Poverty Law Center, I did a big jail conditions case.

So what did Nixon do to force out Fortas? The context of it is that there had been a lot of momentum building around the country saying that when the government provides public schools, it has to provide them equally to all children. With the zeal of an investigative journalist and a novelist’s insight, Adam Cohen tells the story of an injustice carried out at the highest levels of government, and how it reverberated across history and remains with us today. So they do that, and then as the court becomes more liberal, particularly when President Kennedy gets a couple of appointments, they begin to hand down decisions like Gideon v. Wainwright, which said that indigent defendants have the right to have a lawyer appointed; Miranda, the famous Miranda warning that the police can't just start questioning you without telling you of your right to remain silent; a few years later, a very important case striking down the poll tax. Let's get back to my interview with lawyer and journalist Adam Cohen about his new book "Supreme Inequality." Adam Seth Cohen (born c. 1962) [1] is an American journalist, author, lawyer, and former assistant editorial page editor of The New York Times. But they basically said, you know, we're washing our hands of welfare law cases. This byline is mine, but I want my name removed. The D.C. The author, my guest Adam Cohen, writes, for five decades, the court has, with striking regularity, sided with the rich and powerful against the poor and weak in virtually every area of the law. So we began to see them being very active around issues like the poll tax but also really about welfare, right? GROSS: So when you became a public interest lawyer, did you see the courts as a good way to fight for civil rights for, you know, income equality, for social change, for better education? (SOUNDBITE OF HANK JONES & FRANK WESS' "A HANKERIN'").
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He's a lawyer and a journalist and author of the new book "Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle For A More Unjust America." He inherited a very liberal court with Chief Justice Earl Warren. We think of cases like Brown v. Board of Education; the Supreme Court integrated the South. Contributor Photograph: Alexander Ho for TIME, The Alexander case, currently drawing protest, is a travesty not of “stand your ground” but of sentencing, In the end, “Stand your ground” played a small role in George Zimmerman’s acquittal, but it could pose a big risk to Trayvon Martin’s family if they pursue a civil trial, Criminal trials are not very good at deciding whether a defendant is actually innocent — or whether racial profiling is a problem in our country, It also nullifies one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation in U.S. history, It’s still unclear whether the NSA’s spying was actually illegal, The legal profession is facing some fundamental changes, and one former big-firm partner is sounding the alarm, California’s Right to Know Act would force Google and Facebook to reveal what personal information they’ve collected and how it’s being used. And there is a new jail - or it was new when - you know, a few years ago - in Chambers County, Ala., that was a result of a lawsuit we brought, saying that the old jail was inadequate. They just said, we're not interested; we're not going to do anything. Cohen is the author of Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America. He says, in campaign finance law, the court has opened the floodgates to money from wealthy individuals and corporations. It might not have been the wisest thing to do. It's shocking the degree to which schools vary from one district to another within a state. So when Obama nominated Merrick Garland, if Garland had been confirmed, that would have restored a liberal majority to the court for the first time in half a century. But that backfired. You know, in theory, if the court is the sort of legal body we like to pretend it is, what president should be saying is, I'm going to look for the best interpreter of the law. So he had been making clear to Nixon that he was going to be quite conservative.

And on a wide variety of issues, the court has ruled against the poor. Adam Cohen with Lawyers for Good Government. GROSS: So in which place do you feel like you've had the most impact - as a public interest lawyer or as a journalist? Give us an example of how the Supreme Court in the past few decades has given the advantage to the wealthy. COHEN: They allow that, right? COHEN: Yeah. Congress has switched parties multiple times - right? As seen in: The Oklahoman ... Are you a journalist? Rodriguez v. San Antonio Independent School board from 1973, one of the, really, most tragic cases, I think, in the Supreme Court's history. But that's not what they talk about at all. And people were, I think, expecting the Supreme Court would be the one institution that could step forward and fashion some kind of solution that was clearly not political, that drew on neutral principles of law. COHEN: Yeah. And the idea is that if you're a discrete and insular minority that is unable to really effectively protect itself through the political process, which has often been true of the groups I just mentioned, the court will give you extra care. A group portrait of Felix Frankfurter, Robert Jackson, Hugo Black and William O. Douglas. A digital health industry cohort across the health continuum, CRISPR-engineered T cells in patients with refractory cancer, Challenges of targeting BRAF V600E mutations in adult primary brain tumor patients: a report of two cases, EXCLUSIVE: Kensington Tory candidate’s ‘buried’ Brexit views revealed, Bodywork: How older people can prevent deadly falls, Weighty subject: How to keep bones strong, Explaining age-related decline in theory of mind: Evidence for intact competence but compromised executive function.
And he needs to get a majority to get a conservative court, and he's looking for any way to do that. Adam Cohen, a former member of the New York Times editorial board, has dispensed with these conventions and written a book that is almost pure law. But one of the first things the Burger court did in that Dandridge case, as I mentioned, was to really make clear - no, the poor - not going to be a suspect class, and they're not getting any special attention from us. Create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile and upload a portfolio of your best work. Adam Cohen (journalist) (born c.1962), American journalist at The New York Times Adam Cohen (musician) (born 1972), Canadian born musician, the son of Leonard Cohen Adam Cohen (scientist) (born 1979), associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology and of physics at Harvard University And under the Equal Protection Clause, you know, people have a right to be protected equally when the government acts, and this was being widely accepted.

It was one of the great fumbles in Supreme Court history and really unexpected in many ways because Johnson had been, you know, the master of the Senate, the famed majority leader who understood better than anyone how to count votes in the Senate. As you point out, your book paints a different picture of the Supreme Court than the one presented in civics class. - back and forth, back and forth. I'm Terry Gross. So it's mainly, you know, racial minorities, religious minorities, noncitizens, groups like that. We Insist: A Timeline Of Protest Music In 2020. He's checking on the medical condition of some of the older justices and frankly hoping that they don't last very long. This is FRESH AIR. GROSS: We're in an interesting position now in terms of the Democratic primary in the sense that Michael Bloomberg is both the candidate and the funder of his campaign because he's funding it out of his own money. There are some states that - if you live in California or New York - not that welfare is munificent because it is not - but there are other states where you get almost nothing, you know, if you're in Wyoming and you need help.

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