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.
A Justice Reflects
Walter Isaacson is president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan educational and policy studies institute based in Washington, D.C., and was previously chairman and CEO of CNN and editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Einstein: His Life and Universe (April 2007), Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003), and Kissinger: A Biography (1992), and co-author of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986).
With Sotomayor's hearings two weeks away, former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor tells Walter Isaacson she regrets she wasn't replaced by a woman and says real-life experiences matter.
Who's the liberal who will replace Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court? After Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg pronounced in January that she's been "lonely" ever since Sandra Day O'Connor retired, it has seemed likely that the next Supreme Court judge will be a woman. While Vice President Biden draws up a list of possible nominees, The Daily Beast looks at six well-credentialed women who are likely to be near its top.
40 Schmoes, 6 Surfers, and a Supreme Court Justice
Holly Peterson is a contributing writer to the Daily Beast and the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Manny. She is also a contributing editor for Newsweek magazine and a former producer for ABC News.
While Obama was busy making national history, I was busy freaking out about the guests about to enter my Park Avenue apartment.
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.
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
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.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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