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The Sotomayor Hearings — What We Can Agree On?

Post author:Richard M. Esenberg
Post published:July 20, 2009
Post category:Judges & Judicial Process Political Processes & Rhetoric U.S. Supreme Court

Here is something that we can all agree on. Maybe. Over at PrawfsBlawg, Howard Wasserman of Florida International says that the Sotomayor hearings have been “inane and meaningless.” This has been a widely shared reaction among liberal legal academics and lawyers. They are disappointed in (even if they are willing to excuse) her retreat into a caricature of judicial restraint. They are put off (even if they are willing to rationalize) the fog of platitudes and non sequiturs with which she has responded to questions.

Here’s an example. Our own Senator Feingold asked her what the test is for incorporating provisions of the Bill of Rights into the Fourteenth Amendment:

Commentary on Sotomayor Hearings

Post author:Michael M. O'Hear
Post published:July 16, 2009
Post category:U.S. Supreme Court

sotomayor Paul Secunda has an interesting guest post on the ACS Blog regarding the role of the Ricci case in the confirmation hearings. Meanwhile, over at the Federalist Society website, our former colleague Scott Moss is part of a lively ongoing debate on the hearings.

You Got the Wrong Guy

Post author:Richard M. Esenberg
Post published:July 12, 2009
Post category:Labor & Employment Law Media & Journalism U.S. Supreme Court

Part of my job is to be engaged on issues of law and public policy, so I am usually happy to talk to the media and pleased when the law school’s clipping service picks up some brilliant comment that I have made and posts it to the school’s website. They miss most of them so I guess that I’m not as brilliant as I think. (But I knew that.)

But there is one up there as we speak from the Lehighton (Pa.) Time-News reporting my comment on the Supreme Court’s decision in Ricci v. DeStafano. I did issue some comments on Ricci through the Heartland Institute where I am a Policy Advisor.

But I didn’t say what was quoted in the article.