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In a piece here in today's National Review Online, Thomas Sowell, a prominent conservative columnist, attacks Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor for what he claims is poor performance as a judge on her part because, by his count, the Supreme Court has reversed four of six Second...

Yesterday morning, several Republican Senators took to the Senate floor to make speeches outlining their "concerns" about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. By and large, the speeches were entirely predictable, and if I'd been playing a drinking game keyed to mention of Judge Sotomayor's "wise Latina woman" remark, I'd have...

Many people probably don't recall much, if anything, about June 26, 2003, but I recall a great deal. That's because it's the day on which the Supreme Court issued one of its most important rulings in the area of individual rights and human dignity. In Lawrence v. Texas, a sharply...

Many people probably don't recall much, if anything, about June 26, 2003, but I recall a great deal. That's because it's the day on which the Supreme Court issued one of its most important rulings in the area of individual rights and human dignity. In Lawrence v. Texas, a sharply...

On Wednesday, a federal court of appeals in California heard oral argument in a case involving the Bush administration's spying on Americans, Hepting v. AT&T. The plaintiffs have charged that AT&T illegally cooperated with the Administration's unlawful, warrantless surveillance of Americans. But if President Bush has his way, no...

Now that President Bush's Supreme Court nominees, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, have completed their first full term together, it's time to survey the damage they have wrought. In one 5-4 ruling after another, the Court took a scalpel to Americans' rights and liberties and racked up...

By now, most people have seen the photo of a beaming Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne, holding their newborn grandson, Samuel. Baby Samuel was born on May 23 to the Cheneys' lesbian daughter, Mary, and her partner, Heather Poe. By all accounts, Dick Cheney and Mary are very close,...

Controversial Fifth Circuit nominee and Mississippi lawyer Leslie Southwick had a confirmation hearing yesterday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, a hearing rushed onto the committee's schedule with only one week's notice. Why the hurry? Apparently, the Senate Republican leadership is threatening to grind the Senate to a halt unless Democrats...

Media coverage of the Supreme Court this week rightly focused on the 5-4 ruling upholding a federal ban on an abortion procedure, which, as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg noted, signals that the Court majority seems willing to abandon decades of precedent upholding a woman's right to choose. That ruling vividly...