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John Yoo / The Enterprise Blog:
Empathy Triumphs Over Excellence — President Obama's nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor shows that empathy has won out over excellence in the White House. Sotomayor has sterling credentials: Princeton, Yale Law School, former prosecutor, and federal trial and appellate judge.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Sotomayor's Rulings Are Exhaustive but Often Narrow — WASHINGTON — Judge Sonia Sotomayor's judicial opinions are marked by diligence, depth and unflashy competence. If they are not always a pleasure to read, they are usually models of modern judicial craftsmanship, which prizes careful attention …
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Identity Justice — Responding to early 19th-century rumors that they drank excessively, the Supreme Court justices decided to drink nothing on conference days — unless it was raining. At the next conference, Chief Justice John Marshall asked Joseph Story to scan the sky for signs of rain.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Huck comes out firing — at ‘Maria’ Sotomayor — Mike Huckabee comes out hard against the Sonia Sotomayor appointment, with a bit of a misfire as concerns her name: … post comment | … Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1) — Unbelievable. How do you still have credibility in judging …
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Wall Street Journal:
The ‘Empathy’ Nominee — Is Sonia Sotomayor judically superior to ‘a white male’? — Printer — Friendly — In making Sonia Sotomayor his first nominee for the Supreme Court yesterday, President Obama appears to have found the ideal match for his view that personal experience …
CNN:
Steele: GOP must be careful on Sotomayor — WASHINGTON (CNN) - The head of the Republican Party wants his forces to watch their steps when it comes to Supreme Court hopeful Sonia Sotomayor. — Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele told CNN Radio Tuesday the party that he hopes …
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New York Times:
The New Justice — President Obama seems to have made an inspired choice in picking Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. She has an impressive judicial record, a stellar academic background and a compelling life story. Judge Sotomayor would also be a trailblazing figure in the mold …
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Neomi Rao / Wall Street Journal: Questions for Sotomayor — The confirmation process shouldn't be a rubber stamp.
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:Republicans won't beat Sonia Sotomayor by attacking her as too darn human.
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The Huffington Post:“Where Policy Is Made”: Sotomayor's Court Comment Explained
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New York Times:Obama Hails Judge as ‘Inspiring’
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Anotheramerican / Media Matters for America:Fox's Kelly, ABC's Greenburg skew Sotomayor remark about “Latina …
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:Yoo on Sotomayor: No Threat to the Revolution
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Ilya Somin / The Volokh Conspiracy:Would Sotomayor be the First Hispanic Justice?
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Room for Debate:Sotomayor: Does Biography Matter?
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Richard A. Epstein / Forbes:The Sotomayor Nomination — The hidden costs of presidential empathy.
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Carol Williams / L.A. Now:
Bush vs. Gore rivals challenge Prop. 8 in federal court — Two prominent attorneys who argued on opposite sides of Bush vs. Gore, the legal battle over the 2000 presidential election, announced Tuesday that they will challenge Proposition 8 in federal court and seek to restore gay marriage until the case is decided.
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Andrew Harmon / Advocate:
Prop. 8 Challenge Filed in Federal Court — In a bold move that takes a new approach to achieving marriage equality, two attorneys who argued opposing sides of the 2000 Bush v. Gore lawsuit before the U.S. Supreme Court have filed a challenge to Proposition 8 in federal court, The Advocate has learned.
Chicago Breaking News:
Burris on tape offering a check for Blagojevich — A transcript of a secretly recorded phone call between the brother of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich and U.S. Sen. Roland Burris was released in federal court today, a call in which Burris, then seeking the Senate seat, was recorded offering the Blagojevich campaign a campaign check.
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Heejin Koo / Bloomberg:
North Korea Threatens Armed Strike, End to Armistice — North Korea threatened military action in response to South Korea joining a program to seize weapons shipments, and said it's no longer bound by the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War. — South Korea's actions are tantamount to a …
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(LEAD) N. Korea launches additional missile into East Sea: official — North Korea launched an additional short-range missile from its east coast Tuesday night, an official at the South Korean presidential office said Wednesday. — “The North appears to have launched a ground-to-ship missile …
John Taylor / Financial Times:
Exploding debt threatens America — Standard and Poor's decision to downgrade its outlook for British sovereign debt from “stable” to “negative” should be a wake-up call for the US Congress and administration. Let us hope they wake up. — Under President Barack Obama's budget plan, the federal debt is exploding.
Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
AT&T May Have Swayed ‘Idol’ Results — LOS ANGELES — AT&T, one of the biggest corporate sponsors of “American Idol,” might have influenced the outcome of this year's competition by providing phones for free text-messaging services and lessons in casting blocks of votes at parties organized …
CNN:
Montana town wants Gitmo detainees — HARDIN, Montana (CNN) — The tiny town of Hardin, Montana, is offering an answer to a very thorny question: Where should the nation put terror detainees if the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is shut down by the end of the year as President Obama has pledged?
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court overrules Michigan v. Jackson — Splitting 5-4, the Supreme Court on Tuesday overruled its 23-year-old ruling in Michigan v. Jackson on the rights of a criminal suspect in police custody who has asked for a lawyer. The Court did so in Montejo v. Louisiana (07-1529), in an opinion written by Justice Antonin Scalia.
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Obama's Transportation Secretary Says He Wants to ‘Coerce People Out of Their Cars’ — (CNSNews.com) - Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told a group of reporters at the National Press Club on Thursday that he wants to “coerce people out of their cars.” — In Newsweek magazine last week …
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BBC:
Canada official eats seal heart — Canada's governor general, Michaelle Jean, has helped to butcher and eat a seal in an apparent act of solidarity with hunters. — Ms Jean used a traditional Inuit knife to help gut the animal then ate a slice of raw heart.
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