There’s been lots of speculation today that Justice John Paul Stevens will retire from the Supreme Court in 2010, based on his hiring: He usually hires all four of his clerks a year ahead of time, but has only hired…
Nick Gillespie finds something nice to say: There is, buried deep within Kennedy’s legislative legacy, a different set of policies worth exhuming and examining, precisely because they were truly a break with the normal way of doing business in Washington….
Erick Erickson at RedState reads Sonia Sotomayor’s written response to the judiciary committee’s questions about the use of foreign law as amending her oral testimony to the point of reversing its meaning. I actually don’t think it reverses her position…
Contrary to my expectations, Sotomayor actually was asked today about the Confrontation Clause case I wrote about a couple weeks ago. Amy Klobuchar, the Minnesota senator who we can be certain never did coke with Chris Farley, expressed her concern…
The Supreme Court issued its final opinions of the term yesterday, and David Souter said his farewell to the bench. On July 13, the Senate Judiciary committee will begin confirmation hearings for Sonia Sotomayor, who will almost certainly replace Souter…
Few serious people will argue that Sonia Sotomayor has been nominated to the Supreme Court because she is the best candidate for the job. ABC News correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg reports that President Obama’s political advisers favored nominating Sotomayor to “energize…
Obviously miffed by the Jeffrey Rosen profile of Sonia Sotomayor mentioned here the other day, in which anonymous sources called her dumb, Rob Kar, who clerked for Sotomayor on the Second Circuit, mounts a preposterously over-the-top defense: Let me start…
John Edwards is back in the news: His wife Elizabeth is out hawking a new book (Catch her Thursday on Oprah!), and there’s a federal investigation into whether Edwards improperly used campaign money to pay off his mistress, Rielle Hunter:…
Jeffrey Rosen of The New Republic asks around about the Second Circuit judge, often mentioned as a potential Supreme Court nominee, and doesn’t like what he hears: But despite the praise from some of her former clerks, and warm words…
According to several reports, Specter is leaving the Republican party to caucus with the Democrats. It’s unclear whether he’ll call himself a Democrat or an independent, but the effect is the same: once Al Franken is seated, the Dems will…
