SCOTUS Reviews “Hillary” the Movie

{update:  Physical and Mental Health Warning!!! Watch right wing hate CDS youtubes at your own risk!!!}

Okay, here’s another constitutional question about which I am no authority but sure find interesting.   Here’s the link  to the NYT and Adam Liptak’s article today called  “Supreme Court to Revisit ‘Hillary’ Documentary”.   It’s high drama [...]

Sotomayor Confirmed

The NY Times reports that Sonia Sotomayor will replace Justice Souter to become the first Hispanic woman on the Supreme Court.  The vote was 68-31 so support was mildly bi-partisan.
Judge Sotomayor’s confirmation was never in much doubt given Democrats’ numerical advantage in the Senate. But the final vote — 68 to 31 — represented a [...]

THE most serious question at Sotomayor’s hearing was asked by… Franken?

Holy Hemiola, Republicans are a repetitive bunch.  Did any one of them ever have an independent thought?  The way they zeroed in on her “wise latina” word combination was like some SETI scientists looking for meaningful patterns in vast field of verbal graffitti, like none of the other billions of words Sotomayor has ever uttered [...]

Grilled Sotomayor

They tried, but they didn’t lay a glove on her:
Sonia Sotomayor pushed back vigorously Tuesday against Republican charges that she would bring bias and a liberal agenda to her seat as the first Hispanic woman on the Supreme Court, insisting repeatedly she would be impartial as GOP senators tried to undercut her with her own [...]

Gotcha!

Priceless:
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), seeking to discredit Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s judicial philosophy, cited her 2001 “wise Latina” speech, and contrasted the view that ethnicity and sex influence judging with that of Judge Miriam Cedarbaum, who “believes that judges must transcend their personal sympathies and prejudices.”
“So I would just say to you, I believe in [...]

Sotomayor’s Confirmation Hearings

The process of judging is enhanced when the arguments and concerns of the parties to the litigation are understood and acknowledged. That is why I generally structure my opinions by setting out what the law requires and then by explaining why a contrary position, sympathetic or not, is accepted or rejected. That is how I [...]

Kennedy Keeps Amblin’ to the Right

Ever since Sandra Day O’Conner left SCOTUS,  Justice Kennedy appears firmly to have found his place with the conservative ideologues.  (May the greater ethos protect us from what is further to come). What is most interesting to me about the recent decision known as the “white firefighter’s reverse discrimination cause”  (Ricci v. DeStefano) is that [...]

Socially Unacceptable

Remember a couple weeks back when Barack, Michelle and their media entourage flew to New York City one Saturday night for dinner and a show?  Imagine what would have happened if the following week David Letterman did a “Top Ten” list of the worst moments of their trip and said this:
“Number 2 – Finding out [...]

We Told You So!

Another day, another broken promise:
The Supreme Court on Monday turned down a challenge to the Pentagon policy forbidding gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military, granting a request by the Obama administration.
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In court papers, the administration said the appeals court ruled correctly in this case when it found that “don’t ask, don’t tell” [...]

Ginsberg Puts the Brakes on the Chrysler Deal

I’ve talked about the issues involving primacy of commercial bond debt and the issues in the Obama administration attempt to wheel-and-deal GM and Chrysler around the standard bankruptcy process. It seems Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsberg may have similar concerns.  She put a stay on the sale of Chrysler to Fiat.  The action puts into [...]