A Refreshing Contrast

Sonia Sotomayor’s record on protecting people from needlessly degrading searches is certainly considerably more encouraging than that of the previous nominee.

Unfortunately, this will probably be too late to help prevent an appalling precedent. I’d like to think that Stevens is gently asking Souter if this is really the way he wants to go out, sort of like what Earl Warren did with Stanley Reed when the latter was holding out on Brown…