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The New York Times has a profile piece of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. It’s worth a read, as Stevens will likely go down as one of the great jurists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
The article closes with a line from Stevens’ dissent in Citizens United. The last line, in fact. […]

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Well, democracy, such as it is in the US, was nice while it lasted.
The Republican-appointed majority on the Supreme Court says money is speech and corporations are entitled to free speech under the Constitution. I must have missed that part of the Bill of Rights.
The only real question is why the Court is addressing this […]

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This is just hilarious. In a Washington Post editorial defending Sonia Sotomayor’s distinguished record from attacks on her gender, intelligence, and race, there’s this gem of a quote.
Former Bush adviser Karl Rove implicitly questioned Judge Sotomayor’s intelligence, saying in an interview with PBS host Charlie Rose that “I know lots of stupid people who went […]

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Obviously this is a very exciting and historic day, as President Obama is poised to name Sonia Sotomayor as his pick to replace Justice Souter on the Supreme Court. Sotomayor is by all accounts a brilliant jurist who has displayed a sterling sense of how the law works throughout her long and diverse career. Tom […]

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Brian Beutler at TPM DC has uncovered great news footage from the rejection of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III as a federal district court judge by the Republican-controlled Judiciary Committee. At the time, Sessions was viewed as too controversial because of documented instances of racism and insensitivity towards blacks.
“Jeff” Sessions is now the ranking Republican member […]

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Glenn Greenwald has had personal interactions with Judge Sonia Sotomayor in his work as a litigator. Here’s what he says about her:
My perception of Sotomayor is almost the exact opposite of the picture painted by Rosen.  I had a generally low opinion of the intellect of most judges — it’s one of the things I […]

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