This debate on Sonia Sotomayor is to legitimacy what Pinky and the Brain are to the war on terrorism.
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 05.25.2011
Leah McElrath Renna | Posted 05.25.2011
This is a significant and beautiful day for our nation. There is so much else that will be said -- but let us take the time to say that first.
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 05.25.2011
Maybe the problem is that most right wingers don't know what summa cum laude means. Most likely, they're just desperately making stuff up to try to stop an extremely qualified nominee.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
Sotomayor's nomination guarantees us of the one thing we know the media can cover well: a big shiny melodramatic political battle royale in which tempers rage but whose outcome is basically predetermined.
John Marshall | Posted 05.25.2011
The artist formerly known as the Republican Senator Arlen Specter said that as a hermaphrodemocratite, if he opposed Sotomayor his head would explode.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
About two weeks ago, I criticized Jeffrey Rosen for a profile of potential Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Purporting to be "The Case Against ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
The best work of Brian Joseph Burton, better known as DJ/produce par excellence Danger Mouse, is also best known for being illegal. Naturally, I refe...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
If I had to boil down popular sentiment into a per curiam opinion, LOTS OF YOU want to drag Al Gore away from his family and environmental work back into public life as a Supreme Court Justice.
Chicago Sun-Times | Abdon M. Pallasch | Posted 05.25.2011
Barack Obama was just four years out of law school when he appeared before U.S. District Judge Ruben Castillo, representing Calvin Roberson in a lawsu...
Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011
I want someone on the United States Supreme Court who can look back at actions that were wrong, feel a sense of injustice and make amends, even if the act happened forty or fifty years ago.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Michael Steele has made perhaps the most peculiar case yet against President Obama's criteria for choosing a Supreme Court nominee. It involves the qu...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
It didn't inflame as quickly or resonate as deeply as some of those standout moments that occurred in his conversation with Dick Cheney, but Bob Schie...
Chicago Sun-Times | Abdon M. Pallasch | Posted 05.25.2011
On its face, the so-called mezuzah case sparks an interesting question: Does a condo association violate owners' civil rights by banning religious sym...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
Yesterday morning, Jeff Sessions made news after he appeared on Morning Joe and said, of the pending SCOTUS nomination, "I don't think a person who ac...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
Who would have imagined that calling up one of Sotomayor's former employers might yield insight into her ability?
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Dozens of names have surfaced as potential replacements for Supreme Court Justice David Souter, who is retiring at the end of this year's term. The mo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
AFP has the story on the effects of the swine flu on the nation of Afghanistan, where officials have locked up the country's only pig for the time bei...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
If you have an opinion - or a dissent! - please share it with us, whether it's a personal nomination, an overlooked area of legal concern, or a specific criteria you'd look for in a Supreme Court nominee.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
If one of the virtues of our legal system is the right to be confronted by one's accusers, then Jeffrey Rosen's case in the New Republic is a little wanting.
Joe Peyronnin | Posted 05.25.2011
I urge President Obama to nominate the first Hispanic Justice for the U.S. Supreme Court. And, by so doing, President Obama can make history again.
Dan Goleman | Posted 11.17.2011
There are at least three varieties of empathy, each with very different implications for spotting the right candidate.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
With the announcement that Justice David Souter is planning on retiring from the Supreme Court to return to New Hampshire, President Barack Obama now ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
The White House is reserving comment on the reported impending retirement of Supreme Court Justice David Souter. From Deputy Press Secretary Bill Bu...
Above The Law | Posted 05.25.2011
ATL readers, there are many names being bandied about as potential nominees for the Supreme Court. We've narrowed the list to nine people who have bee...
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 05.25.2011