Well, if we're ever going to discuss excellent potential nominees Obama isn't actually going to consider, today's the day...
Obama’s Supreme Court nominations
For the second time this week, the Supreme Court issued a ruling applying its famous Miranda ruling. A lower court had ruled that because two years had elapsed between a.
The fetish about the number of no votes registered in successful Supreme Court nominations is one of the strangest Villager obsessions. I do think that the apparent underlying ideology --.
I have a piece up at TAP arguing that, despite inevitable gnashing of teeth you'll hear from pundits about how the Supreme Court confirmation process has become too "politicized" and is so uncivil it's making David Broder roll over in his grave, structurally it actually...
I'll have more tomorrow, but like Publius I was amazed to come home and read Alito's remarkable-and-not-in-a-good-way concurrence focusing on the Scary Black Guy who allegedly caused New Haven to.
Not surprising to see the High Principle of the "Up or Down Vote" be abandoned, of course -- such things are inevitable after changes in party control -- but for.
Commenting in defense of grandfather clauses that help to perpetuate previously racist admissions policies and John Roberts's empty formalism in Parents Involved, David Nieporent asserts:And both you and Stevens might want to review Marshall's arguments in Brown. He explicitly explained to the Court that the...
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.
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.
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.
I generally respect Ramesh Ponnuru, but his assertion that Sotomayor is "Obama's Miers" is just appalling stuff, and is a classic example of the double standards that Sotomayor is likely.