Stuart Taylor Jr.

Stuart Taylor Jr. is an American journalist and author. He also served as a Nonresident Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and practices law occasionally. He was a reporter for the Baltimore Sun from 1971-1974; The New York Times from 1980-1988, covering legal affairs and then the Supreme Court; wrote commentaries and long features for The American Lawyer, Legal Times and their affiliates from 1989-1997, and for National Journal and Newsweek from 1998 through 2010; and has written on a freelance basis for numerous publications both before and since 2010. He has also coauthored two books and he and a coauthor will soon publish a third.

Taylor comments on legal affairs and political issues and often focuses on the Supreme Court, appearing frequently in other publications such as The Atlantic, Slate, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal. He also does numerous radio interviews and has been interviewed on all major television news programs. Taylor graduated in 1970 from Princeton University and in 1977 from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude. He was an associate from 1977-1980 at the D.C. law firm of WilmerHale.

Taylor has written on various political issues and events, including DADT,Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign,Obamacare, and the Supreme Court's decision in the Citizens United case. He has argued for reform of the Voting Rights Act, defended Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito from charges of being a “far-right activist,” and written and commented on the confirmation of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. Although his viewpoints are widely considered conservative, he describes himself as a moderate.

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