Judges

This week, John McCain gave a speech for the ages - the Dark Ages. He offered up the Right's boilerplate complaints about activist judges -- ignoring the fact that the majority of federal judges are GOP appointees, as are 7 of the 9 Supreme Court Justices. Or maybe he was having another McCain moment. Across the aisle, while Hillary's chances of winning teetered between none and "What are you smoking?" Obama played it cool, allowing Hillary the space to face the inevitable with dignity and on her own terms -- the political equivalent of "it isn't you, it's me." (BTW: Happy Mother's Day to all HuffPost mothers!)

If the proper role of the judiciary is going to be one of "the defining issues of this presidential election," as John McCain asserted today, he shoul...

Will Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama get up and denounce this revitalized imperial presidency? The answer, I fear, is that you shouldn't hold your breath.

John McCain's statement on the role of judges might very well qualify as one of the most ignorant statements ever made by a presidential candidate.

With 426 days left in Bush's term, what's next for judicial appointments? One might think that not a lot can happen. Not so.

Hot-button issues such as reproductive and gay rights are important topics, but the media does the American people a disservice when it perpetuates a single minded approach to judicial selection.

Unlike Pakistan, a massing of homegrown attorneys-in-the-streets is not something you see in our 200 TV channel universe.

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Judge Leslie Southwick to a seat on the federal appeals court in Mississippi despite complaints by some majority Dem...