While the Senate Judiciary Committee asked questions this week of Solicitor General Elena Kagan, President Obama’s choice to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, the Supreme Court announced a ruling on an issue Democrats would prefer to avoid; the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. In McDonald v. Chicago, the Supreme Court of the United [...]
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Confirm Sotomayor Now
To be perfectly honest, I’m glad to see Republicans backtracking from their attacks on Sonia Sotomayor. No, I don’t think she possesses the right temperament or restraint for the Supreme Court, but I don’t think we could have gotten a much better candidate than the one Obama gave us. Think of the right’s restraint as [...]
Sotomayor Nomination Reveals Much About Obama.
Judge Sotomayor’s record as a federal circuit court judge may not offer much insight to where she stands on the controversial issues facing the nation today. Her tenure as a jurist does reveal much about President Obama’s thinking. Of the many great legal minds of the federal circuit, left, right, and center, the President of the [...]
