The One Thing Needful

I was reading this post by John Yoo when I came to this sentence:

Decide a case in a liberal direction, and the [New York] Times will say you have "grown" in office and are "exercising statesmanship" (See, e.g., Justices John Paul Stevens, Harry Blackmun, Sandra Day O'Connor, and now Anthony Kennedy, who were all appointed by Republican Presidents but became more liberal once on the Court).

That about sums up the thousands of words spilled in the pages of the Times over the years concerning the Supreme Court.