Updated: Police arrested four abortion opponents, among them Norma McCorvey, aka plaintiff “Jane Roe” of Roe v. Wade, saying they disrupted the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings at the U.S. Senate…
Lloyd Gaines achieved an important victory in 1938 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the black man had to be admitted to the University of Missouri School of Law if…
Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has a few questions he would like to ask U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. And one of them concerns the war on terrorism.
Hard work is a theme running through the life of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, work so demanding that the federal appeals judge has acknowledged its toll on her…
A blogger who wrote about a potential ethics issue connected to Sonia Sotomayor’s solo law practice says he has been questioned by the Senate Judiciary Committee’s minority legal staff as…
Sonia Sotomayor will make her opening statement before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday as it begins its first day of hearings on her nomination to replace retired Justice David…
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg thinks it’s ridiculous for critics to make a big deal about the “wise Latina” comment by Sonia Sotomayor, the federal appeals judge nominated to join Ginsburg…
New York University law professor Arthur Miller has offered a possible explanation for a controversial short opinion joined by Judge Sonia Sotomayor in which the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of…
The ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary has found Sonia Sotomayor well-qualified for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. The vote was unanimous.
A panel gathered at Georgetown University Law Center to take stock of the latest U.S. Supreme Court term all felt the same way: Justice Anthony Kennedy was the dominant force.
Environmental groups may not have lost all five cases before the U.S. Supreme Court last term if Justice Sandra Day O’Connor had remained on the court.
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