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Opinion: Expand the Field of Potential Supreme Court Nominees
By not in system - AOL News(April 26) -- As President Barack Obama prepares to select a nominee to succeed Justice John Paul Stevens, I am pleased that he is continuing his practice of reaching out to both sides of the aisle concerning judicial nominations. I am looking forward to consulting with the president, and with the Senate majority leader, the Senate minority leader and Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. This is an important step in the process of confirming the next Supreme Court justice. Last year's nomination of Justice Sonia Sotomayor was the result of similar consultation. Her nomination was an inspiration and an ...
Top 10 Lists of 2009 Google Searches Dominated by Democrats, but Not Obama
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyGoogle on Tuesday released the top searches within the United States for 2009; the results are surprising and interesting. The top Google searches for senators show that people are more interested in reading about Democrats than Republicans -- only Chuck Grassley of Iowa at No. 9 made the list for the GOP. And it also shows that people are doing more searches for senators with key roles in legislation than for senators caught up in scandals. No surprise, Ted Kennedy tops the Senate Google searches, as he died this year. Second on the Senate list is Nelson, but the Google people don't tell us ...
A Catholic Court? Let the Arguments Begin
By David Gibson - Politics DailyThe new session of the Supreme Court of the United States opens Monday with a slate of important cases looming -- and a novelty that some worry is more than a historical curiosity: namely, with the addition of the newest justice, Sonia Sotomayor, six of the nine justices on the high court are . . . Roman Catholics. John Grisham, where are you? Do we need to call Dan Brown? Or has this issue already moved well beyond the realm of popular fiction? Some would say so. The five Catholic justices that Sotomayor joins -- Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy and Chief ...
A New Tactic for Supreme Court Nominees: Straight Talk
By Bob Franken - Politics DailyThis may surprise faithful readers, but I may have a contrarian view about what the confirmation vote of Sonia Sotomayor means -- or more to the point, what the votes against confirmation mean. Instead of the pablum we're being fed, we should demand a healthy dish of judicial activism. ...
Committee Approves Sonia Sotomayor; Senators Call Hearings 'Theater'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyOn a nearly party-line vote, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 13-6 to confirm Judge Sonia Sotomayor to be the next associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. All committee Republicans except South Carolina's Lindsey Graham voted against the nomination. Members spoke about the nomination hearings and their votes before casting them. Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) said that the hearings on Sotomayor's nomination "gave her a chance to respond to her relentless critics," and also gave the American people a chance to learn of Sotomayor's "hard work, fierce intelligence and enduring ...
Sessions to Vote 'No' on Sotomayor
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyWith Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court scheduled for a vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee tomorrow, the top Republican on the committee, Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions announced today that he will vote against her. ...
Sotomayor on Abortion? Guns? Anything? Unclear.
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyOver the course of her career, Sonia Sotomayor has worked as a prosecutor, a civil litigant and as a federal judge for 17 years. So it should come as no surprise to anyone, especially the lawyers on the Senate Judiciary Committee, that Sotomayor's answers at her confirmation hearing would be so, well, lawyerly. Still, the frustration among senators on both sides of the aisle has been palpable, as the judge has studiously avoided giving her opinion on everything from hot-button issues to seemingly innocuous statements from other justices. When asked by Sen. Al Franken for her definition of ...
Firefighter Frank Ricci to Testify at Sotomayor Hearing: What to Expect
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyImagine if Joe the Plumber had shown up at a presidential debate as a witness for John McCain. Furthermore, suppose Joe the Plumber were then cross-examined by the Democrats, in front of a nationwide audience.That's essentially what will happen later today during the confirmation hearings of Sonia Sotomayor. But instead of Joe the Plumber, it will be Frank the Firefighter who will testify. Frank Ricci, of course, was at the center of a reverse-discrimination lawsuit brought by 20 firefighters denied promotions in New Haven, Conn. (Ben Vargas, who was also denied a promotion -- and was the only ...
Sotomayor: Strict Constructionist and Budding Conservative?
By Bob Franken - Politics DailyMaybe it's time for a contrarian view. Is anybody else concerned about Sonia Sotomayor chanting that she simply follows the law? "It is very clear that I don't base my judgment on my personal experiences." Is she serious? ...
Ante Up: The Supreme Court Poker Tournament
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyBonnie compares the back and forth between Sonia Sotomayor and her Senate questioners to the airy give-and-take of a Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire dance. But it's not ballroom dance -- or musicals like those mentioned by Melinda and Mary -- that I've been thinking about; it's poker. Observe the senators as they shuffle their cards -- some choosing easy friendliness and others taking a more aggressive line -- as they try to get Sotomayor to reveal exactly what she's holding. Can Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) raise the stakes with a mere mention of firefighter Frank Ricci, a central figure in a ...
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