Justice Stevens Corrects the New York Times
Justice John Paul Stevens has read the profile about him published by the New York Times Magazine—and he has written to “correct certain misunderstandings.”
The letter points out several errors, many of which made the justice appear even more accomplished than he already is, Legal Times reports.
Stevens says he did not “help break the code” on a Japanese operation when he served in a Navy communications intelligence unit at Pearl Harbor in World War II. Nor was he offered a teaching job at Yale Law School early in his career. And he was not active in politics, despite the story’s suggestion that he worked with good-government forces in Chicago.
The article calls the 87-year-old Stevens the oldest and arguably the court’s most liberal justice, something he finds surprising.
“I don’t think of myself as a liberal at all,” he said in an interview for the article. “I think as part of my general politics, I’m pretty darn conservative.”
