Like Yglesias, I strongly recommend this piece from Jeffrey Toobin. Supreme Court appointments being political, various forms of diversity have always been a major part of the selection process for judges -- and this is perfectly appropriate. Everyone knows that Bush never seriously considered appointing...
sonia sotomayor
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.
Stuart Taylor, on a Republican nominee:Alito's critics have similarly ignored much evidence that his 15 years of steady, scholarly, precedent-respecting work as a judge tell us more about him than.
Adam deals effectively with this jaw-dropping nonsense from Stuart Taylor. It's worth adding that, as far as I can tell, none of Taylor's many remarkably non-prescient mash notes to his beloved Sam Alito addressed Alito's membership in CAP. Which, of course, brings us to another...
I had a request in comments to discuss concerns some liberal critics have had about Sotomayor's record on abortion (which the administration has tried to address.) Fortunately, Filipovic already has.
Shorter Michael Gerson and Charles Krauthammer: "It's outrageous that President Obama would suggest that empathy is a useful trait in a Supreme Court justice. And it's outrageous that Sonia Sotomayor.
It doesn't get much better than Fred Barnes questioning Sonia Sotomayor's intellectual credentials (in the midst, natch, of wholly unsubstantiated assertions that Sotomayor has been a beneficiary of affirmative action). To borrow DrDicks' line, this is the coal bucket calling the Waterford crystal black...
You'll be shocked to see double standards about that less-than-precise category known as "judicial temperament" manifesting themselves....
I have an article up over at Comment Is Free about he Sotomayor nomination. Since her confirmation is (barring unforseen circumstances) inevitable, what matters is the nature of the process.
There's a great little exchange at the beginning of the Godfather II, when the corrupt senator is trying to shake down Michael Corleone. The senator makes a point of pronouncing Corleone's name with exaggerated correctness. This is a double insult, both because of the exaggeration,...
Dana Milbank is the latest to assert that Sotomayor just can't be all that bright and doesn't know her place. Does anyone think in a million years that Milbank would.
Adam has the inevitably hacktacular Stuart Taylor dead to rights here:Moreover, Taylor, who believes the greatest injustice in Western history was Sotomayor's failure to ignore established precedent in the Ricci.