Obama's Supreme Court

Sotomayor is a Supremely Wise Choice - San Francisco Chronicle

Why Did Sotomayor Rule Against Ricci? - Stuart Taylor, National Journal

nationaljournal.com > The Ninth Justice Judge Sonia Sotomayor has not defended her most widely criticized decision -- the one rejecting a discrimination lawsuit by 17 white f...

Sotomayor: Qualified, Mainstream - Pat Toomey, Philadelphia Inquirer

Inconsistency Is U.S. Politics' Only Constant - Albert Hunt, Bloomberg

Gay Marriage, Democracy & the Courts - Robert George, Wall Street Journal

We are in the midst of a showdown over the legal definition of marriage. Though some state courts have interfered, the battle is mainly being fought in referenda ar...

Senate Faces Crowded Agenda in Week Before Recess - CQ Politics

Senate leaders have made it clear that the expected confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor will be the chamber's finale before a monthlong recess.Between now and the...

An Opening to Appoint Progressive Judges - Nan Aron, Politico

Conservatives claim they’re sticking it to the president by voting against Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court — but in fact, they’re gi...

U.S. System Creates Health Care Tyranny - David Sirota, Seattle Times

For those still clinging to quaint notions of the American ideal, these have been a faith-shaking 10 years. Just as evolutionary science once got in the way of creationists' catech...

NRA Opposition Fails to Sway Votes on Sotomayor - Associated Press

The National Rifle Association's threat to punish senators who vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has been met with a shrug by Democrats from conservative-leaning state...

Follow Graham's Approach to Judicial Nominations - Washington Post

Sotomayor & Gates Share a Bad Habit - Stuart Taylor, National Journal

Lindsey Graham Keeps His Word - Los Angeles Times

The Right's Originalism Debate - Stuart Taylor, National Journal

Arrogance Isn't a Crime - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post

WASHINGTON -- If race were the only issue, there would be much less hyperventilation about Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s unpleasant run-in with the criminal justice sys...

Sotomayor Merits Approval - USA Today

Abortion and the Echo of Eugenics - Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe

WHAT DO Richard Nixon and Ruth Bader Ginsburg have in common?Not much linked the former president, who died in 1994, and the associate justice now in her 17th year on the Supreme ...

Affirmative Action is Just a Distraction - Shelby Steele, Washington Post

America's war over affirmative action has gone on longer than any of the country's military conflicts, and over the decades each side of this debate has spawned a vast literature o...

Has Liberalism Jumped the Shark? - Leigh Scott, Big Hollywood

The Lessons Of Bork - Stuart Taylor, National Journal

Big Judicial Issues That Got Short Shrift - Stuart Taylor, National Journal

Abortion, Eugenics and Margaret Sanger - Carl Cannon, Politics Daily

Sotomayor Is Smart, Qualified and So-So - Richard Cohen, Washington Post

A political ad that lucky New Yorkers get to see on television begins with "A million lawyers in America" and goes on to wonder about certain no-bid contracts in nearby New Jersey ...

White Men Can't Trump Sotomayor on Life Story - Albert Hunt, Bloomberg

Race in 2028 - Ross Douthat, New York Times

During last week’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Republican senators kept bringing the conversation back to 2001 — the year when Sonia Sotomayor delivered the mos...

GOP, Sotomayor & the Role of a Justice - Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker

GOP Shows Signs of Life in Sotomayor Hearings - Gloria Borger, CNN

Pharisees on the Potomac - Maureen Dowd, New York Times

Republicans Got Some 'Splainin' to Do - Frank Rich, New York Times

Sotomayor Deserves to Be Confirmed - Newsday

Confirm Sonia Sotomayor - Washington Post

Varying Standards For the Court - New Hampshire Union Leader

Bursting With Pride Watching Sotomayor - Susan Estrich, Philadelphia Inquirer

It's Still Unclear Which Sotomayor We're Getting - Stuart Taylor, Nat Jrnl

Sign In nationaljournal.com > National Journal Magazine > Opening Argument Sponsored LinksAdvanced Searchby Stuart Taylor Jr.Saturday, July 18, 2009As one who had h...

What's Wrong With Legislating From the Bench? - Jeffrey Rosen, Time

GOP Fails in Campaign to Demonize Sotomayor - John Nichols, The Nation

How well did Judge Sonia Sotomayor do at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee?Well enough to get Senate Republicans to throw in the towel....

Credibility Gap - Jim Geraghty, National Review Online

Fairness, Empathy and Sotomayor - Mark Davis, Dallas Morning News

Judicial Liberalism Lost Big This Week - Patrick McIlheran, Milwaukee JS

Of Race, Gender and Justice - Linda Chavez, Townhall

The Ricci Fire Fizzles Out - Dana Milbank, Washington Post

Future Nominees At Stake in Hearings - Baker & Savage, New York Times

WASHINGTON — As the two parties skirmish over the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, some of their rhetorical fire is aimed not at her but at the next justice Pre...

Retire the 'Ginsburg Rule' - Jonathan Turley, USA Today

A weekly series explores the issues of faith that are shaping our world.In Washington today, politicians too often just stand their ground. Liberal strategist Bob Beckel and conser...

Guess What? All Judges Make Policy - Doug Lasdon, New York Daily News

The Supreme Court: Empathy vs. Law - The Economist

Sotomayor Confirmation a Done Deal - Andrew Cohen, CBS News

Analysts Discuss Sotomayor Hearings - The NewsHour

JIM LEHRER: Judy Woodruff, who anchored our live coverage of the hearing, takes the story from there.JUDY WOODRUFF: To assess Judge Sotomayor's four days of testimony and her prosp...

Interview with Frank Ricci - Hannity

FRANK RICCI, NEW HAVEN, CONN. FIREFIGHTER: Americans have the right to go into our federal courts and have their cases judged based on the Constitution and laws, not on politics or...

Senate Hearings Reflect Broader Struggle - Gerald Seib, Wall Street Journal

Much like the Washington Nationals baseball team, which has known since springtime that it has no realistic chance of winning a pennant this year, Republicans in the Senate knew be...

A 'Precedent' Worth Recalling - Ruth Marcus, Washington Post

The hardest question in the confirmation hearings for Sonia Sotomayor is one the nominee can't answer.Not because she doesn't know the law or can't offer a satisfactory explanation...

In Hearings, Sotomayor Rises Above the Fray - San Francisco Chronicle