No big surprises during this morning's Senate Judiciary Committee meeting, who voted 13-6 to confirm Judge Sonya Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court. One Republican--Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina--joined the Democrats on an otherwise party-line vote. The full Senate...
Texas Sen. John Cornyn said this morning he won't vote to confirm Judge Sonya Sotomayor, but acknowledged her confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court is all but certain. Despite her impressive academic background, Cornyn said Sotomayor's radical statements are worrisome...
Republican senators are taking a pretty tough stance in their opening statements at the confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Texas Sen. John Cornyn hasn't gotten his turn yet but his office released these excerpts: "In more than 200 years,...
Women's groups and others are upset at an editorial cartoon that ran this week in The Oklahoman. The cartoon (below) shows U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor hanging from a tree like a piñata. Nearby, President Barack Obama, in a...
Intern Marjorie Korn reports on an impending DC summit: Texas Sen. John Cornyn will play host to Judge Sonia Sotomayor on Thursday afternoon--one of a slew of courtesy calls the Supreme Court nominee is making to key senators who will...
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison sent a signal today that she might very well be a no vote on confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. Hutchison says she's not going to prejudge what she might do. But her initial...
Figure they were nervous. And cold. Still, it's a short oath. The new president and the chief justice got through it only after a few awkward starts and stops. Here are the details from The New York Times. And here's...
Abortion is an issue most Democrats have avoided, though its legal future will be one of the most tangible effects of the election. But former Vice President Al Gore warned bluntly at the final session of the Democratic Convention that...
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Ross Ramsey at the indispensable Texas Weekly helpfully posts Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's brief to the Supreme Court arguing in favor of the Indiana law upheld today....
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