Sonia Sotomayor: An Introduction to the Prospective Supreme Court Justice
HolyCoast.com (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Because presidents get to appoint federal judges to lifetime positions : As consolation prizes go, Louis Butler can't complain. After being twice rejected by Wisconsin voters for a place on the state Supreme Court, the former judge has instead been nominated by President Obama to a lifetime seat on the federal district court. If he is confirmed, Wisconsin voters will have years to contend with the...
The Daily Politics (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Senate President Malcolm Smith today sharply rebuked his erstwhile ally, Gov. David Paterson, for criticizing President Obama over the decision to try the alleged 9/11 plotters in New York City. Smith flatly declared Paterson "wrong" on the issue, and clearly stated: "I support the president." The Queens Democrat went out of his way to put himself on the same side as Mayor Bloomberg...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
WASHINGTON -- Apparently, no one told Sonia Sotomayor that Supreme Court justices are supposed to be circumspect, emerging from their marble palace mainly to dispense legal wisdom to law schools, judges' conferences and lawyers' meetings.
New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
If you are already an online subscriber to the LAW.COM service you should be able to click on any of the links below, sign in, and access the full text of all articles listed. A subscription to LAW.COM is needed for online access to this service. Case Against Alleged Fort Hood Shooter to Test Military Justice System The National Law Journal The court-martial of Maj. Nidal Hasan, the man accused of...
Corrente (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Pravda buries the lead: Allies [of departing White House counsel Gregory Craig] also note that he oversaw the successful confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court and praised him for trying to keep Obama in synch with some of the ideologically liberal ideas he promoted in the campaign. McClatchy called their shot on this "Rahmian act of public humiliation" back in September. read...
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Sonia Sotomayor heeded White House advice to paint her fingernails a neutral shade during her Supreme Court confirmation process - up to a point....
JURIST - Paper Chase (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
[JURIST] The US Senate official website] on Monday confirmed Judge Andre Davis, President Barack Obama's nominee to the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, by a vote of 72-16. Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT), the Davis confirmation was delayed by Republicans for five months after the committee reported the nomination to the Senate by a vote of 16 to 3. Davis was nominated...
DCist (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The U.S. Supreme Court has denied convicted D.C. Sniper John Allen Muhammad's request to stay his execution. Barring any unforeseen intervention, the decision means that Muhammad will be put to death by the state of Virginia at 9 p.m. on Tuesday night. The Post notes that Justices John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor all objected to the speed at which the high court made its...
The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The planned Tuesday night execution of John Allen Muhammad remains set following the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to stay the death sentence. Justices John Paul Stevens, Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg filed a two-page statement, saying: “This case highlights...
Althouse (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Said former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler , testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, in a hearing on his nomination to the federal district court here in the Western District of Wisconsin. He is, in what has become typical confirmation hearing ritual, asserting his faithfulness to the law and attempting to quell charges of judicial activism. But isn't that quote interesting?...
Abovethelaw.com (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
* Are bankers even more narcissistic than lawyers? Consider the evidence. [ Dealbreaker ] * No, Justice Scalia did not say he would have dissented in Brown v. Board of Education. [ Balkinization ] * Of course, "[t]he misrepresentation of Scalia's remarks went viral almost instantly, which is the way things go these days." [ Althouse ] * Patterico slaps around Scott Glover of the L.A. Times...
Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Clarence Thomas, the justice long known as the silent member of the Supreme Court, criticized his colleagues for badgering attorneys rather than letting them speak during oral arguments . The conservative Republican jurist — who hasn't asked a lawyer a question during arguments in nearly four years — said he and the other eight justices virtually always know where they stand on a case by...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says her nomination process was so tightly scripted that even her clothes were chosen for her.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says her nomination process was so tightly scripted that even her clothes were chosen for her.
Abovethelaw.com (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
In late June, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of white New Haven firefighters and their claims of racial discrimination. The SCOTUS decision in Ricci v. DeStefano overturned an earlier decision by then-2nd Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Given the SCOTUS decision, I should have seen the lawsuit by a black New Haven firefighter coming. It's such an obvious reaction to SCOTUS that I'm surprised it took...
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aarkstore | 09/12/2009
Many Americans marveled in 2009 as an African-American woman assumed the duties of First Lady and a Latina donned the robes of a Supreme Court Justice. Yet, historians likely will find that Michelle Obama and Sonia Sotomayor were not only icons for multicultural women of their own generation in the first decade of the 21st century, but also were precursors of an emerging wave of increasingly empowered...
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