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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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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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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 …
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Aaron Blake / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
RNC fumbles Sotomayor talking points — Whoops. The Republican National Committee (RNC) has apparently inadvertently released its list of talking points on the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. — Included on the released list were a few hundred influential Republicans …
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Satyam Khanna / Think Progress:
Inhofe worries that Sotomayor may allow ‘undue influence from her own personal race, gender.’ — Republican members of Congress have been trying to subtly raise questions about Sonia Sotomayor's objectivity — simply because of her non-traditional race, gender, and upbringing.
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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New York Times:
Obama Hails Judge as ‘Inspiring’ — WASHINGTON — President Obama announced Tuesday that he would nominate Sonia Sotomayor, a federal appeals judge in New York, to the Supreme Court, choosing a daughter of Puerto Rican parents who was raised in a Bronx public housing project to become the nation's first Hispanic justice.
Wall Street Journal: The ‘Empathy’ Nominee — Is Sonia Sotomayor judically superior to ‘a white male’?
The Huffington Post:“Where Policy Is Made”: Sotomayor's Court Comment Explained
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Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:Yoo on Sotomayor: No Threat to the Revolution
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Anotheramerican / Media Matters for America:Fox's Kelly, ABC's Greenburg skew Sotomayor remark about “Latina …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:Obama's choice of Sotomayor deserves praise
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Ilya Somin / The Volokh Conspiracy:Would Sotomayor be the First Hispanic Justice?
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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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english.yonhapnews.co.kr:
(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 …
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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Wall Street Journal:
Millionaires Go Missing — Maryland's fleeced taxpayers fight back. — Printer — Friendly — Here's a two-minute drill in soak-the-rich economics: — Maryland couldn't balance its budget last year, so the state tried to close the shortfall by fleecing the wealthy.
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.
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 …
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.
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