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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?...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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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Vital Signs Blog (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
"In a political about-face" ( as the Chicago Sun-Times described it ), Mayor Richard Daley has decided to go ahead and sign "bubble zone" legislation which abortionists managed to force through the Chicago City Council. Like other such schemes, the law usurps those freedoms of speech and assembly which American courts once recognized as constitutional. This one is particularly...
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NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Sonia Sotomayor is known for maintaining warm ties with her former law clerks, and she lived up to her reputation by playing Cupid for one of them last week.
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JONATHAN TURLEY (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Here is this week’s column from Roll Call. It explores the interesting selection of cases this term for the Supreme Court. Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s colleagues could not have selected cases more carefully to address areas of uncertainty from her confirmation hearing. Whether by accident or design, this docket is front-loaded with [...]
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Montclair Socioblog (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
October 9, 2009 Posted by Jay Livingston In the flap over Sonia Sotomayor’s gender and ethnicity, when the right went nuts over her “wise Latina”comment, I noted ( here ) the invisibility of dominant characteristics. White male is the default setting. White is not a race, male is not a gender. Only blacks, Hispanics, and others have race. Only women and gays have gend er. I should...
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Begging the Question (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
This week marks the opening of another Supreme Court Term, and Court-watchers have been eager to see how new Justice Sonia Sotomayor settles into her role. I've read a few of the early transcripts, and have noticed (as have others here and here ; links via How Appealing ) that Justice Sotomayor had no problem asking plenty of questions during the arguments. That's fine and all, and I'm glad she's willing...
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SCOTUSblog (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
The Supreme Court will hear oral argument at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Reed Elsevier Inc., et al., v. Muchnik, et al. (08-103). Only eight Justices will hear the case, since Justice Sonia Sotomayor is recused. Arguing for newspapers and periodical publishers and for companies that operate electronic databases will be Charles S. Sims of Proskauer Rose [...]
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Towleroad (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
George Michael denies split with partner Kenny Goss. NASA probe takes aim at Moon. D.C. police investigating man's death at "JO party": "The organizer of the men's parties, who asked that he be identified only as David, said the victim...
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Shakespeare's Sister (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
In case you forgot that Justice Sonia Sotomayor was a fiery Latina, staff writer Robert Barnes is here to help : Justice Sonia Sotomayor displayed no reticence on the first day of her first term on the court; in the two cases on the docket, she asked as many questions and made as many comments as Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. Ooh, uppity! I mean doesn't know her place! No, wait, I mean fiery! It's...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court began its new term Monday with Justice Sonia Sotomayor on the bench as the court tried to hash out how long a suspect's request for a lawyer should be considered valid by police and the courts. The high court, listening to its first arguments of the session, seemed skeptical of defense lawyers' arguments that police should be banned from talking to a suspect without...
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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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