I believe in the free speech that liberals used to believe in, the economic freedom that conservatives used to believe in, and the personal freedom that America used to believe in.
As today’s Washington Post notes, it’s pretty clear the the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee haven’t laid a glove on Judge Sotomayor: Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) tried to place Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor in some school of constitutional interpretation. Legal realist? Originalist? Strict constructionist, perhaps? In the slow, deep and patient voice […]
During the course of her confirmation hearing today, Sonia Sotomayor had a very interesting exchange with Senator Tom Coburn over the right to keep and bear arms: In a prickly exchange over gun control, Sen. Tom Coburn tried hard to get Sonia Sotomayor to explain what she actually thinks about the right to bear arms. […]
James Joyner pretty much captures my attitude about the Sotomayor hearings: What’s more fascinating to me than this ["wise Latina"] controversy, though, is that so many bloggers and Twitterers are closely following the hearings as if they were other than a mere formality on the road to all-but-certain confirmation. As Senator Lindsey Graham put it […]
As I noted earlier today, and indeed on the day that President Obama nominated her, it’s fairly clear that Judge Sonya Sotomayor will be confirmed to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. To put it bluntly, the Democrats have more than enough votes to confirm even if every Republican votes against her; and […]
The confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor begin today: The Senate Judiciary Committee opened the historic confirmation hearing for Sonia Sotomayor, the first nominee to the Supreme Court by a Democratic president in 15 years, at 9:58 a.m. today with Democratic and Republican senators beginning to frame the debate over her nomination. In a packed […]
In a move that is bound to have repercussions for Judge Sonya Sotomayor’s approaching confirmation hearings, the Supreme Court today narrowly reversed a ruling she had made in a controversial employment discrimination case: WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled on Monday, in a case with enormous implications for workplaces across the country, that white firefighters […]
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