Liptak joined
The New York Times news staff in 2002 as its national legal correspondent. He covered the Supreme Court nominations of
John Roberts and
Samuel Alito; the investigation into the disclosure of the identity of
Valerie Plame, an undercover
Central Intelligence Agency operative; the trial of
John Lee Malvo, one of the Washington-area snipers; judicial ethics; and various aspects of the criminal justice system, including capital punishment. He inaugurated the
Sidebar column in January 2007. In 2005, he examined the rise in life sentences in the U.S. in a three-part series. The next year, Liptak and two colleagues studied connections between contributions to the campaigns of justices on the
Ohio Supreme Court and those justices' voting records. He was a member of the teams that examined the reporting of
Jayson Blair and
Judith Miller at
The New York Times, in 2003 and 2005, respectively. He began covering the Supreme Court in 2008. He followed Linda Greenhouse, who had covered the Supreme Court for nearly 30 years. He now writes a New York Times newsletter,
The Docket. Liptak has served as the chairman of the
New York City Bar Association’s communications and media law committee and was a member of the board of the Media Law Resource Center. University of Southern California's
Gould School of Law, and Yale Law School. Liptak's work has appeared in
The New Yorker,
Vanity Fair,
Business Week, and
The American Lawyer. He has written several law review articles on First Amendment topics. In 2013, he published an e-book,
To Have and Uphold: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage. ==Awards==