The Sotomayor hearings, Health Care bills making their way through Congress and the giant profits reported by the banking industry all form the basis ...
Elon James White | Posted 08.17.2009 | Comedy
I am an Average Black Person. I would much rather play my Xbox 360 and watch reruns of Scrubs. I don't want to rant and rail against the system and the perceptions of Blacks: I'm FORCED to.
Nicole Williams | Posted 08.17.2009 | Living
Here, some tips inspired by Sonya Sotomayer when faced with criticism in your own line of work.
Huffington Post | Emily Singer | Posted 08.16.2009 | Style
Judge Sonia Sotomayor has spent the last four days on Capitol Hill making the case for her Supreme Court suitability. But as the nation watched, the o...
Monica Youn | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
In all the hullabaloo about so-called "judicial activism," wouldn't it be refreshing to hear some questions about "judicial passivism" as well?
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
Senate confirmation hearings on judicial nominations are a form of Kabuki Theater in which everyone plays their assigned roles and no one tells the whole truth.
Peggy Drexler | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
The direct questioning has been (mostly) civil and (mostly) relevant to the job of serving on the highest court in the land. But it is the flanking actions that say volumes about the realities of women, work and bias.
Larry Gellman | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
From the moment Judge Sotomayor was nominated to the court, the Right wing made it clear that they were going to play the only card left in the Republican deck -- the race card.
Ed Hayes | Posted 08.16.2009 | New York
There are those who see Judge Sotomayor as an example of the American Dream, a woman who came from a working-class background into the best schools and drove herself intellectually and physically.
Huffington Post/AP | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
Judge Sonia Sotomayor appeared Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee for the fourth day of her Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Our full ...
Paul Loeb | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
If you read the liberal blogosphere, you know about Senator Sessions's history of dubious racial statements. If you're following on most of the mainstream media, you don't.
Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
Sotomayor displayed admirable self-control and patience throughout this hearing. I, on the other hand, found myself yelling at the TV screen during the question periods from some of the senators.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.15.2009 | Media
Last night, Rachel Maddow dug into the day of Judge Sonia Sotomayor's hearings, which she characterized as being far more revealing about Sotomayor's ...
Michael Wolff | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
Why oh why do we persist in having these hearings? Or why do we persist in believing -- or hoping against hope -- that these hearings will be revelatory (or at least great theater and politics)?
C. Nicole Mason | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
Racial and ethnic minorities and women are the only groups asked to check their identity at the door. It is assumed that once given access to power, they will try to funnel those resources to their own kind.
David Weinberger | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
If all else were equal, would you prefer to have a Court made up of nine white men from similar backgrounds, or a Court that includes men and women of various hues and from a variety of backgrounds?
Huffington Post/AP | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
Judge Sonia Sotomayor appeared Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee for the third day of her Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Our full ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
Sen. Jon Kyl gave a lengthy speech (R-Ariz.) during his question and answer session with Sonia Sotomayor that was undoubtedly the type of red-meat inq...
Think Progress | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
During the opening day of confirmation hearings, Judge Sonia Sotomayor came under fire from Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) for stating that her experien...
The Wall Street Journal | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
Ouch! Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), seeking to discredit Judge Sonia Sotomayor's judicial philosophy, cited her 2001 "wise Latina" speech, and contr...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
Judge Sonia Sotomayor declared unequivocally on Tuesday that the right to choose an abortion, as determined by Roe v. Wade, was established as law by ...
Chris Kelly | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
They've got to give the balls and strikes thing a rest. Sotomayor's replacing David Souter, not Benito Santiago. Justice isn't a game and a Supreme Court Justice isn't an umpire.
Kimberly Krautter | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
Last week's sustained cyber-attacks on some of our country's most sensitive government networks exposed how a country that lives by the technology can also perish by the technology.
Jessica Loudis | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
Perhaps the right questions aren't whether or not Sotomayor is an activist or if she's biased in favor of minorities, but rather, what kind of perspective she'll be bringing to the court.
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
Whenever interpretation occurs during rulings, justices rely on their past experiences, ideologies, biases, prejudices, and yes -- the most dreaded of human qualities -- empathy.
Huff Radio | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics