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.
Eugene Volokh expresses concern about the consequences of having an actual liberal on the Supreme Court:And she might move that seat further to the left, if she proves to be.
When I see that Sonia Sotomayor's competence is being questioned by John Yoo -- you know, the guy who constructed a farcical argument that a Constitution that gave Congress numerous.
I have a piece up at Comment is Free on the prospects for cooperation between China and the US on managing North Korea. The title, sadly, was not of my.
Egads.North Korea, facing international sanction for this week’s nuclear test, threatened on Wednesday to attack the South after Seoul joined a U.S.-led initiative to check vessels suspected of carrying equipment.
Ross Douthat.
I assume that many of you have heard that Proposition 8 has survived judicial review (but isn't being applied retroactively.) I think the decision was both inevitable and probably correct.
Assuming Sotomayor is confirmed, the SCOTUS is going to have only one Protestant justice, along with six Catholics and two Jews. (And Stevens appears to be the most nominal of.
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