Ed Whelan, writing in a blog associated with "National Review", suggested that Greenhouse had an obligation to her readers to inform them when she reported on a Supreme Court case that her husband, Eugene Fidell, had submitted an amicus brief: He had submitted an amicus brief in the "Hamdan" case. Fidell also submitted an amicus brief in the "Boumediene" case when it was at the D.C. Circuit level before it went to the Supreme Court. Clark Hoyt, the public editor of the "New York Times", opined that the paper "should have clued in readers" to Greenhouse's conflict, but defended the neutrality of her coverage.