This debate on Sonia Sotomayor is to legitimacy what Pinky and the Brain are to the war on terrorism.
Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.27.2009 | Comedy
The nomination of Sonia Sotomayor faces new hurdles today, in the form of pressure to block her confirmation from the powerful anti-empathy lobby.
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 06.26.2009 | Comedy
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 06.26.2009 | Comedy
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.
John Marshall | Posted 06.26.2009 | Comedy
The artist formerly known as the Republican Senator Arlen Specter said that as a hermaphrodemocratite, if he opposed Sotomayor his head would explode.
Leah McElrath Renna | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.26.2009 | Media
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.20.2009 | Media
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 06.19.2009 | Media
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...
Don McNay | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
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 | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
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 06.13.2009 | Chicago
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics
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 06.11.2009 | Media
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 06.09.2009 | Chicago
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 06.08.2009 | Politics
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...
Huffington Post | Posted 06.07.2009 | Chicago
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 06.07.2009 | Media
Who would have imagined that calling up one of Sotomayor's former employers might yield insight into her ability?
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.06.2009 | Media
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 06.06.2009 | Politics
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 06.04.2009 | Media
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.
Dan Goleman | Posted 06.02.2009 | Living
There are at least three varieties of empathy, each with very different implications for spotting the right candidate.
Joe Peyronnin | Posted 06.02.2009 | Politics
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.01.2009 | Media
Hey everybody, did you know that today, there was a mighty Teabagging set for Michigan? Professional poli-sci hobo Joe The Plumber was supposed to be...
The New York Times | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics
The news that Justice David H. Souter had decided to retire from the Supreme Court fanned the speculative flames in legal and political circles on Fri...
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics