Judicial Confirmation Process Needs 21st-Century Updating

Steven Hill, 09.06.2009

Director, Political Reform Program, New America Foundation

Recognizing the Supreme Court as an ideologically skewed judicial legislature helps us to understand how badly this crucial body needs to be updated for the 21st century.

The Inspiration of a Confirmation: What Sotomayor Means for Women and Girls

Marie Wilson, 09.06.2009

An advocate of women’s issues for more than 30 years

Earlier this summer, I traveled to Georgia to help train nearly 200 women to run for office. What was unusual was the high number of women who intended to run for judiciary positions.

Obama's Second Hundred Days

Chris Weigant, 09.06.2009

Author, Political Commentator, and Blogger (ChrisWeigant.com)

Our look back at Obama's second 100 days will begin with a short overview, and then move on to the categories: "the best of times," "the worst of times," and "the age of (media) foolishness."

Realizing the Ideal: America Fulfills its Promise

Sen. Robert Menendez, 09.06.2009

U.S. Senator for New Jersey

I was born in the same year as Judge Sotomayor. I never dreamed that, one day, I would have the opportunity to vote to confirm a Hispanic woman to the Supreme Court.

Sotomayor and Our Changing Demography

Simon Rosenberg, 09.06.2009

President, NDN

Lack of diversity and a long history of racial intolerance has taken its toll on the Republican brand with the fastest growing non-white part of the population: Hispanics.

The GOP Proves They Need Latina Wisdom

Mario Solis-Marich, 09.06.2009

Progressive talk radio show host

GOP, let me warn you, your affront to Sotomayor is seen as an affront to all Latinas and will not be forgotten easily. This will stick. You are now officially doomed.

The Road Ahead

The Progress Report, 09.06.2009

The Progress Report is the daily policy newsletter of the Center for American Progress Action Fund

Sotomayor joins a Court controlled by conservatives loyal to an ideology that consistently places powerful interest groups ahead of the law.

NRA on Sotomayor: Extremism Revealed

Dennis A. Henigan, 09.05.2009

Brady Center Vice President and Author of "Lethal Logic"

The gun lobby's behavior in the Sotomayor matter reveals much about what makes the organization tick and even more about the politics of gun control.

Through A Looking Glass, Darkly

David Horton, 09.04.2009

writer, scientist, conservationist, liberal, atheist

Anyone who is concerned about conserving the environment which supports human beings is anti-human, while anyone who happily destroys it, for short-term profit, is pro-human.

History in the Making

Marcia D. Greenberger, 09.03.2009

Co-President, National Women's Law Center

When the Senate confirms Judge Sotomayor, she will become the first Latina, the first woman of color, and only the third woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Sotomayor and the Vulcan Standard, Pt. 2

Terrance Heath, 08.30.2009

Online Producer and blogger at Campaign for America's Future.

From the moment Sotomayor's nomination was announced, it's become evident that varied shades of white have blended into a much paler, but more uniform, color.

Al Franken and the Sotomayor Hearings: A Senate Star Is Born

Doug Kendall, 08.30.2009

Founder and President of Constitutional Accountability Center

While colleagues on both sides of the aisle were debating old stories about the Supreme Court of the 1960s and 1970s, Franken focused like a laser-beam on the activism of the Roberts Court.

GOP Latino Outreach Strategy: Oppose, Ignore, Aggravate and Scapegoat

Frank Sharry, 08.29.2009

Frank Sharry is Founder and Executive Director of America's Voice

Events over the past weeks show that the Republican Party still hasn't learned the lessons of the 2008 election. As Senator Tom Coburn might say -- they have some "splaining to do."

Watch: Franken and Klobuchar Speak Out at Senate Judiciary Committee Vote (Video)

David Doody, 08.29.2009

Sotomayor and the Vulcan Standard

Terrance Heath, 08.27.2009

Online Producer and blogger at Campaign for America's Future.

Watching some members of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week was like a crash course in what I've often referred to as "self evasion of the mind."

July 27 2009 - News Update

Richard Valeriani, 08.27.2009

Former NBC News correspondent

Senate Majority Leaders Harry Reid says no vote on Obama health care plan until after recess. If ever.

Defending "Wise Latina"

Bloggingheads.tv, 08.27.2009

Daily video discourse between bloggers, journalists and scholars

Dayo argues, as a Latina, Sotomayor has more life experience and knowledge of America than John Roberts -- experience that goes beyond "White People Land."

Facts Without Feelings in Family Court

Carol Smaldino, 08.27.2009

Psychotherapist

Those who refuse to acknowledge an emotional involvement are hiding and, sadly, they have impressed us so much that we tend to believe in appearance as opposed to substance.

Supermen of Manhattan, Part I

Christian Nwachukwu, Jr., 08.25.2009

Editor and researcher

We stood on the roof of the Flatiron Building, the steroided bottle rockets and Roman candles coming across the sky. Below us: a queue of cars facing west; a forest of folding chairs at the pier; the river like pitch; sulfur in the air.

Do Conservatives Follow the Framers -- or the French?

Nicholas Stephanopoulos, 08.24.2009

An attorney with the Washington, D.C. office of Jenner & Block, specializing in election law and appellate work.

It is no coincidence that American conservatives now sound like French revolutionaries when they talk about legal issues.

Partial Justice

Barry Schwartz, 08.23.2009

Professor of Psychology, Swarthmore College

The mark of a wise judge is the ability to balance. To deny empathy or detachment its proper place is to cut wisdom off at the knees. One without the other would give us only partial justice.