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Jul 14, 2009 |
WSJ.com
Gun rights haven’t been an issue in recent Supreme Court confirmation battles because the Supreme Court hadn’t tackled a major Second Amendment case in decades. But that changed with the court’s recent decision in the Heller case, finding that the right to bear arms was an individual right and not a collective one. So the issue arose this morning in Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearing.
Jul 14, 2009 |
WSJ.com
Republicans and Democrats have vastly different views of Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s vote in Ricci v. New Haven, where her Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Connecticut city’s decision to junk a firefighter promotional exam because too few blacks scored high enough to advance. The Supreme Court, voting 5-4, overruled that opinion last month.
Jul 10, 2009 |
Baltimore Sun
Monday, when the Senate Judiciary Committee begins confirmation hearings, those who are looking to draw blood are bound to be disappointed: Two months of analysis and research has lead to the inescapable conclusion that the 55-year-old appeals court judge is not only knowledgeable and qualified for the post but that her rulings are well within the mainstream of the federal judiciary.
Jul 8, 2009 |
WashingtonPost.com
WASHINGTON -- Conservatives stepped up their criticism of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday, but it was unclear how far Senate Republicans were willing to go to create bumps in what appears to be a smooth road to confirmation for President Barack Obama's first high-court choice.
Jul 8, 2009 |
TheHill.com
Barring something unforeseen, the Senate will confirm Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor before the August recess.
Jul 8, 2009 |
NYTimes.com
WASHINGTON — More than two decades ago, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee as a nominee for a district court judgeship in Alabama and was rejected by the panel over charges of racial insensitivity.
Jul 8, 2009 |
NYTimes.com
The American Bar Association announced on Tuesday that its standing committee on the federal judiciary has unanimously found Judge Sonia Sotomayor to be “well qualified” for elevation to the Supreme Court, its highest rating.
Jul 6, 2009 |
Legal Times
Republicans, invoking the Senate's constitutional responsibility of "advise and consent," will ask questions designed to throw Sotomayor off balance. They'll interrogate her about speeches in which she praised the judgment of "wise Latina" judges, and they'll try to figure out how she would rule on controversial issues. Sotomayor will tell her personal story to the nation, while trying to say as little as possible about her legal views.
Jul 5, 2009 |
Los Angeles Times
If Republicans on the committee are fair-minded, they won't argue that Sotomayor is somehow disqualified because five justices disagreed with her in a complicated case. She followed the rules as written and deferred to the actions of a local government; now the Supreme Court has exercised its right to change those rules. Still, that doesn't mean Sotomayor can't be asked if she agrees with the reasoning in that case and others decided this term.
Jul 5, 2009 |
Los Angeles Times
Overall, the court remained closely divided in a year in which neither the conservative nor liberal bloc could claim major wins. Now the justices will be on recess for two months, while the Senate decides whether to approve President Obama's first nominee to the court.
Jul 5, 2009 |
Associated Press
A week before her Senate hearings, Republicans are floundering in their efforts to trip up Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, unable to find an effective message about why she's not fit to serve.
Blame the tricky politics of opposing the woman who would be the first Hispanic justice, especially for a party struggling to broaden its base and whose chief spokesman on Sotomayor has a troubled history of racism allegations.
Add to that the mathematical impossibility of Republicans' rejecting President Barack Obama's first high court nominee, and it's a recipe for a weak-kneed response.
Jul 5, 2009 |
Associated Press
Congress returns for its midsummer session Monday with a Senate supermajority not super enough for President Barack Obama's top priorities to pass without Republican support…
Slowing it all down will be Senate hearings and debate on appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor's fitness for the Supreme Court. Senate Judiciary Committee hearings are set to begin July 13, followed by what's expected to be a robust two weeks of committee and floor debate.
Jul 2, 2009 |
RollCall.com
A Puerto Rican civil rights organization with ties to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday turned over a new round of documents to the Senate Judiciary Committee on her affiliation with the group.
Jul 2, 2009 |
NationalJournal.com
Sonia Sotomayor has concluded all her requested meetings with senators so far, according to the White House and the Senate Judiciary Committee. She has had a total of 88 meetings, a White House spokesperson said.
Jul 2, 2009 |
WSJ.com
WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor helped lead an advocacy group that pushed legal theories about employment and race much like the one scotched by the Supreme Court Monday, according to documents released Wednesday as part of her confirmation process.
Jun 30, 2009 |
CNN
The reversal was expected and is not the first time an appointee has been reversed by the court he was about to join.
Indeed, two of Chief Justice Warren Burger's opinions for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals were reversed in 1969, the year he joined the court. One was Watts v. United States, in which the defendant had been convicted for threatening the life of the president.
Jun 30, 2009 |
TIME
Despondent Republican staffers privately concede that Sotomayor's long record on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals; her background as a prosecutor, corporate lawyer and judge; and the political danger of attacking a Hispanic nominee make President Barack Obama's first pick for the court all but a shoo-in when confirmation hearings begin on July 13. But members of the Supreme Court bar and clerks who have worked there say the opinion in the Ricci case (named for one of the New Haven firefighters who brought the lawsuit) offers an advance look at Sotomayor's future relations with conservative Justices — and may set the tone for her interactions with her presumed peers.
Jun 30, 2009 |
Washington Post
The Supreme Court's rejection of a decision against white firefighters endorsed by Judge Sonia Sotomayor gives Republicans a renewed chance to attack her speeches and writings but is not expected to imperil her confirmation to the high court, political and legal sources said yesterday.
Jun 30, 2009 |
Washington Post
The 5-4 ruling Monday, backing of reverse discrimination claims by white firefighters, is unlikely to derail Sotomayor's nomination - and it may not even sway a vote. Reaction to the decision fell almost purely along partisan lines, with Republicans cheering the decision and saying it raises serious concerns about the judge, and Democrats condemning the opinion and arguing that Sotomayor had acted appropriately.
Jun 30, 2009 |
Washington Post
The Supreme Court yesterday preserved -- for the moment -- an important provision of civil rights law, made it more difficult for employers to uphold that provision and concocted a standard never before applied in such cases. Most disappointing, the court took all these steps even though it did not have before it a fully developed record of the facts.
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