Sonia Scores a KO
Scott Horton is a law professor and writer on legal and national security affairs for Harper's Magazine and The American Lawyer, among other publications.
Not even the roughest-and most leading-questions from the GOP peanut gallery could derail Obama's Supreme Court nominee Tuesday. As Scott Horton argues, she's cruising toward confirmation.
Is the Supreme Court Unconstitutional?
Jonathan Blitzer is a freelance writer and translator living in New York. He also works at the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU Law School.
As Sotomayor faces confirmation, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James MacGregor Burns' Packing the Court lambastes the bench for being too political and unaccountable to the public.
Sotomayor: The Drinking Game
Tom Goldstein practices at Akin Gump and teaches Supreme Court litigation at Harvard and Stanford Law Schools. He has argued 21 Supreme Court cases. He founded and manages SCOTUSblog, which is devoted to coverage of the Court. He also spends time working with Sony Pictures Television on a TV series about his practice. Tom has been named one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America and one of the 90 greatest lawyers in Washington in the past 30 years.
Today's confirmation hearings don't have to be a total snooze-so crack open a beer and let the buzz words start flying, says Tom Goldstein, who has argued more than 20 Supreme Court cases and is founder and manager of SCOTUSblog. Who'll be the first to say empathy?
Sotomayor Overruled
Paul Campos is a professor of law at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
The Supreme Court's overturning of a decision endorsed by Obama's nominee revives a debate over empathy in judging-but do her right-wing critics make an exception for white litigants?
Sonia's Batting Average
Stephen L. Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale, where he has taught since 1982. His seven non-fiction books include God’s Name in Vain: The Wrongs and Rights of Religion in Politics and Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy. His first novel, The Emperor of Ocean Park (2002), spent eleven weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. His fourth novel, Jericho’s Fall, will be published in July.
Critics argue the Supreme Court has reversed 60 percent of Sotomayor's opinions. But Stephen L. Carter says their math is way off-the real number is less than 1 percent.
The GOP's Supreme Problem
Reihan Salam is a fellow at the New America Foundation and the co-author of Grand New Party.
Republicans fear that bashing Obama's nominee could set off an ugly reaction with women and Hispanic voters. The Daily Beast's Reihan Salam on how to fight without being offensive.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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