On Thursday, Sonia Sotomayor won confirmation as the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice. She will also be the third woman Justice in history and th...
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
The JusticeBot 9000: You said you wanted a machine that took all the human factor out of the law, so that emotion and empathy would be forever banished from the bench.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
Sotomayor and any minority perceived to be a threat to corporate and political white male dominance will be branded a reverse racist. This is not new.
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics
In all the hoopla over Judge Sonia Sotomayor being nominated to the Supreme Court, there is one interesting side story that the media is largely ignor...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.27.2009 | Home
The anti-affirmative action hit against Sotomoyor is more than an attempt by the conservative hawks to derail her confirmation. The goal is to chill her on the court and batter affirmative action.
Political Animal | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) moves to ease a backlog of executive branch nominations, he suggested on Tuesday that he does not have t...
Congressional Quarterly | Keith Perine and Seth Stern | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Michael Mukasey appears headed for confirmation as attorney general before Thanksgiving, but Senate Democratic leaders are leaving open the possibilit...
AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Judge Michael Mukasey's nomination for attorney general ran into trouble Thursday when two top Senate Democrats said their votes hinge on whether he w...
HuffPost's Eyes & Ears | Matthew Palevsky | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics