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I rarely find myself at a loss for words, but Antonin Scalia has made me so. What is the most apposite term to describe this argument?
The question of the meaning of a cross in the context of a war memorial did give rise to one heated exchange, between Justice Scalia and Peter J. Eliasberg, a [...]
Archive for the ‘Supreme Court’ Category
October 7th, 2009
June 16th, 2009
Category: Alito
Arianna Huffington, speaking at the UCLA Public Affairs commencement, had three pieces of advice for our graduates:
1. Follow your own drummer.
2. Put “changing the world” on your to-do list.
3. Get enough sleep.
Good advice, especially the last bit.
June 5th, 2009
Category: Sotomayor
A reader summarizes Sonia Sotomayor’s answers to her confirmation questionnaire:
She is a member of BJ Warehouse Club.
Her dentist has been doing very well recently.
In the 1970s, she ran a copying machine at the Yale GP student center, then at Yale Law School.
She owns real estate, but no stocks.
The responses are extremely well written.
June 4th, 2009
Category: Sotomayor
Excerpts from Judicial Questionnaire filled out by Judge Sotomayor and released today to the public:
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Q. The American Bar Association’s Commentary to its Code of Judicial Conduct states that it is inappropriate for a judge to hold membership in any organization that invidiously discriminates on the basis of race, sex, religion, or national origin. [...]
June 2nd, 2009
Category: Sotomayor
Jonah Goldberg on Sotomayor: just when you thought the debate could sink no further.
June 2nd, 2009
Category: Sotomayor
Upon review of Judge Sotomayor’s so-called reversal rate, it appears she’s doing better than her peers on average. According to the New York Law Journal, which runs a monthly column called “2d Circuit Roundup,” since 2002 the High Court has taken up 35 cases from the Second Circuit; of those, it has reversed, vacated [...]
May 30th, 2009
Brad DeLong raps my knuckles for being cavalier about the sentence talking heads have been endlessly parsing from Sotomayor’s Berkeley speech. Here’s the full paragraph:
Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, a possibility I abhor less or discount less than my colleague Judge Cedarbaum, our gender and national origins may and [...]
May 29th, 2009
Category: Policy briefs, Sotomayor
One of Sonia Sotomayor’s lower-candlepower remarks was the one about a Latina judge making a better decision yada yada, [UPDATE: this is too flip, as Brad Delong notes and I discuss in this post] to which the franticosphere has clung as to a slippery rock in a Class V river, and with as little success. [...]
May 29th, 2009
Category: Sotomayor
I do not understand the conversation about Sonia Sotomayor’s notional affirmative action advantages at all, not at all. The affirmative action that gives you a kick upwards in Eastern Establishment territory is the thumb on the scale for white people from the right schools and neighborhoods and families, especially legacy applicants: it’s the [...]
May 26th, 2009
Category: Sotomayor
This might be the funniest blog post headline ever. (And a great post as well).
