Supreme Court
Sotomayor's SCOTUS nomination kicks of the insanity. Plenty of sexy fun, with an interview with Professor Foxy and Mary Roach's orgasm review.
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By a vote of 68 to 31, the Senate has confirmed Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.
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By Joe Veix, RH Reality Check August 3, 2009 - 2:28pm
A student in California is suing school administrators for telling her to remove her anti-abortion T-shirt.
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Supreme Court Justice nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor has just been approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee, on a vote of 13 to 6. Only one Republican on the Committee voted in favor of her nomination, Senator Lindsay Graham of South Carolina. Watch video of the roll call vote.
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Senator Lindsay Graham announced today on the Senate floor his intention to support the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to sit as a justice on the Supreme Court.
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Surrounded by senators dripping with condescension, Judge Sotomayor responded with respect, nuance and a solid grounding in the law - to the point where the hearings sometimes felt like a high school civics class.
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During a hearing that ranged from questions on judicial temperament and private property to the role of precedent in court decisions and Sotomayor's decision on the use of nunchucks, the most direct, probing, and potentially telling questions came from Senator Lindsay Graham (R-South Carolina). Among them Graham asked: "Is abortion a public health issue?"
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Confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor began yesterday with a sense of predictability and inevitability within the Senate chambers. Calls by Senators for respectful review of and debate on Sotomayor's candidacy during the hearings, were, however, not heeded by members of the far right in the media, and distortion of her statements continues in the Senate and in the press.
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Norma McCorvey, the "Roe" in Roe v. Wade, was arrested at the confirmation hearing of Sonia Sotomayor among a wave of anti-abortion protesters who lined the sidewalks outside the Senate office buildings.
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The justices who evaluated Ricci are not "raceless," yet no one suggests their whiteness influences their views on racial inequality. Sotomayor, though, is branded a "racist" because she voted to uphold a lower court decision based on well-established legal theory.
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