The Narrative Continues

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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 be questioning the intelligence of a white appointee with similarly sterling academic credentials? Like, to pick...

Republicatarian

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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.

Understanding the Zombie-Terrorist Menace

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Max Baucus will not allow them to feast on the warm, nourishing brains of his constituents:"Housing potential terrorists in Montana is not good for our state," Max Baucus, the state's senior Democratic senator, wrote to Smith. "These people stop at nothing. Their primary goal in life,...

First they made us pronounce her name correctly . . .

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. . . and I said nothing because I had an Armenian name.Beside the general weirdness involved in asking what the protocol for pronouncing someone's name is, (how about "like the person does?") I'm frightened and confused by Krikorian's suggested English pronounciation of Sotomayor. I mean...

North Korea Getting Blustery

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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.

That Settles It; She’s Replacing Dowd

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Shorter Verbatim Althouse: "And let's also talk about the interesting mannerism of placing one's left hand inside one's clothing up around one's shoulder. I know someone who does that at times, and I've given a lot of thought to what it signifies. I have my theory,...

Upholding Prop H8

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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.

A kind of progress

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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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