WASHINGTON — The Senate held a history-making debate Tuesday on confirming Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor as the first Hispanic justice, ...
AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The National Rifle Association's threat to punish senators who vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has been met with a s...
Huffington Post | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
On Tuesday the Senate Judiciary Committee will convene to vote on the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. Sotomayor is expect...
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 ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
The White House is confident that Judge Sonia Sotomayor will be confirmed, after two days of rigorous questioning in which the Supreme Court nominee o...
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 ...
Washington Post | Jon Cohen and Robert Barnes | Posted 07.28.2009 | Politics
A sizable majority of Americans want the Senate to confirm Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, and most call her "about right" ideologically, accor...
AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Tuesday unveiled a new narrative ahead of Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings, questioning her commitment...
Michael Shaw | Posted 06.28.2009 | Media
Pairing an almost eight-year-old quote with a photo fished from the file, you see how the media can suggest Sotomayor as someone angry, bitter -- even "racist."
Daniel Cubias | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics
In the spirit of bipartisanship, I offer the following: Drop the lame attacks on Sonia Sotomayor, because they're not going to work.
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.
AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Reaching for history, President Barack Obama on Tuesday chose federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor to be the first Hispanic justic...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
The rationale is gradually being put in place for Republicans to mount a filibuster of Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee. On Sunday, the ranking m...
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.
Arthur Agatston, M.D. | Posted 06.11.2009 | Living
I can't speak for whether our Supreme Court candidates are fat and fit or not. But I can tell you not to judge a book (or a judge) by its cover.
Washington Post | Krissah Thompson | Posted 06.10.2009 | Politics
One day in the early 1990s, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas telephoned Leah Ward Sears to introduce himself. She was a rising star in Georgia's ...
AP | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The White House says President Barack Obama's announcement of a Supreme Court nominee is not imminent. Presidential spokesman Robe...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics
A top Republican Senator on the Judiciary committee suggested on Thursday that two of the people widely believed to be under consideration for a Supre...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics
Social conservatives were likely none-to-pleased on Wednesday, when the new ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Jeff Sessions, said that...
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.
AP | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he hopes President Barack Obama will make an unconventional choice for a Supreme Court justi...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 06.04.2009 | Politics
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), now the Republican with the most power to delay President Obama's Supreme Court nominees, decried filibusters during the ...
AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics