We tapped some local fashion designers and high school students through our friends at Fashion Fights Poverty (FFP) to produce sketches for Justice Sotomayor to consider.
AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who had cancer surgery earlier this year, made a quick return to work Friday after feeli...
Stephanie Green | Posted 11.14.2009 | Style
Although Justice Ginsburg gave her new friend on the Court a white collar worn by female justices, she explained that Justice Sotomayor is going to have to go across the pond to do her robe shopping.
The New Yorker | Jeffrey Toobin | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
The Obama Administration wanted to send a message with the President's first nomination to a federal court. "There was a real conscious decision to us...
AP | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Justice Sonia Sotomayor has taken her seat at the Supreme Court in front of a packed courtroom that included President Barack Obama...
Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 10.23.2009 | Style
The hot and leisurely summer months are coming to an end, and with it, a season full of style statements. From Barack's jeans to Michelle's shorts, Sa...
Huffington Post via ABC News | Posted 10.20.2009 | Style
Not only is the Supreme Court robe unfashionable, but it was also designed mainly for men. Sandra Day O'Connor, the Supreme Court's first female justi...
Huffington Post | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
For Chief Justice John Roberts, the arrival of a new Supreme Court justice is "to some extent .... unsettling." Justice Roberts, a relative newcomer ...
Huffington Post | Anya Strzemien | Posted 09.14.2009 | Style
When Ruth Bader Ginsburg rolled up at Wednesday's Sotomayor reception in a glamorous gold robe and the most charming lace gloves we've ever seen, we w...
Matthew Rothschild | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
Obama would do himself proud, and his progressive base proud, and the Constitution proud, by nominating Russ Feingold to fill the next vacancy on the Supreme Court.
Marcia D. Greenberger | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
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.
Michael Henry Adams | Posted 08.27.2009 | New York
Irrespective of how educated or rich one might be, to be a black man in America is still a condition in which one feels he has no rights that any police officer is bound to respect.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics
In a long interview to be published in this week's New York Times Magazine, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg defended Judge Sonia Sotomayor m...
Irasema Garza | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics
The Supreme Court's ruling last week in Ricci vs. DeStefano should not be understated: the decision threatens to undermine the vital function of the country's historic civil rights legislation.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics
At some point, the surgeon has to pick up the knife; the fire captain has to send his people into the burning building. They need to know what they're doing.
Irasema Garza | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics
Sonia Sotomayor has more judicial experience than any Supreme Court nominee of the past 100 years. She is an outstanding nominee. Yet her detractors attack her for having stated the obvious.
John Marshall | Posted 07.09.2009 | Comedy
The Supreme Court delayed the sale of most of Chrysler's assets to Fiat by telling the carmaker, "Wait a minute. I have to go in the back and talk to my boss," an old negotiating ploy that heretofore has not been used on the sale of a whole car company.
Lora Somoza | Posted 07.02.2009 | Comedy
We may have to eat excess chocolate if Sotomayor gets this nomination. Or all men may be forced to live silently in a garage for 3 days a month.
Gerald Sindell | Posted 07.01.2009 | Living
Brilliant framing can be so effective in launching ideas that often the framing and the idea become intertwined forever.
Joanne Bamberger | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics
Conservatives are going to try to convince America that no judge should be appointed to the Supreme Court who doesn't decide cases by applying the law to the facts of a case in a vacuum.
Stanley Kutler | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics
Since David Souter announced his intention to retire from active service, media speculation has percolated over a likely successor. Enter Barack Obama, professor of constitutional law.
USA Today | Joan Biskupic | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics
n interviews with USA TODAY before Souter's retirement announcement Friday, Ginsburg said the court needs another woman. "Women belong in all places w...
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 06.06.2009 | Media
With Supreme Court buzz dominating DC, gender issues are suddenly back in style despite the President's recent declaration that protecting abortion rights was not a high priority on his agenda.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics
Memo to CNN: How is it EVEN POSSIBLE that you guys have not made this headline into a t-shirt yet? It's like you all aren't even trying to win...
AP | MATT LEINGANG | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Friday it's lonely being the only woman on the U.S. Supreme Court. Ginsburg told law students...
Stephanie Green | Posted 10.13.2009 | Style