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  Corrente — Authority: 622
  Pravda buries the lead: Allies [of departing White House counsel Gregory Craig] also note that he oversaw the successful confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court and praised him for trying to keep Obama in synch with some of the ideologically liberal ideas he promoted in the campaign. McClatchy ...
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• New Profile of Justice Sonia Sotomayor in Latina Magazine

  
  DISSENTING JUSTICE — Authority: 514
  Latina will profile Justice Sonia Sotomayor in its December/January issue, which becomes available on November 17. The magazine has posted a lengthy excerpt from the article on its website. Here is a snip: When Obama won the White House, the legal world hedged their bets on the brilliant judge with the ...
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• Federalist Society Convention Kicks Off With Call to Oppose Obama Judge Picks

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 774
  Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) kicked off the annual Federalist Society convention today with a call to oppose President Obama’s liberal nominees for the federal judiciary, Legal Times reports . “We are in a long and difficult fight,” Sessions told the gathering of leading conservative lawyers, judges and law ...
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• Carrie Prejean: Completely Inappropriate and Unprofessional

  
  Woman Tribune — Authority: 431
  So Carrie Prejean somehow got a book deal. I don’t know exactly how she accomplished this, perhaps she told Regnery Press that she would sue them if they didn’t agree to publish a memoir of more of her whining about fighting gossip that she put out in the world herself to be found and about hate and political ...
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• Justice Sonia Sotomayor says: "the problem with every test is that you can find an exception that makes the application ridiculous."

  
  Althouse — Authority: 748
  Doesnt that just make you want to think of a rule that does not require an exception to avoid ridiculousness? Then arent you intrigued by the paradox that you will have just come up with an exception to her rule (about the need for exceptions to avoid ridiculousness), and that will simultaneously support and ...
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• ACTION ALERT: Tell Your Senator to Filibuster Judge David Hamilton

  
  brianlee — Authority: 136
  A current action alert from www.redstate.com on a judicial nominee. Tell Your Senator to Filibuster Judge David Hamilton Senator Jeff Sessions is calling on his colleagues to filibuster Judge David Hamilton. Call or e-mail your Senator. Tell your Senator to oppose cloture on Judge Hamilton and support ...
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• Justice Sotomayor Gets Candid in Decembers Latina

  
  Blogamole — Authority: 478
  How much do you know about Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor? The Justice is featured in the December issue of Latina where the mag outlines Sotomayors feelings on marriage, love, her desire to pull her name from consideration weeks before President Obamas nomination, and how shes keeping it Latina in the ...
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• Why It Is So Important to Have Women On the Supreme Court

  
  Mother Talkers — Authority: 140
  Well, there are a lot of reasons we should have more women on the U.S. Supreme Court, but I was recently struck by the difference in questioning by the two women and the seven male justices deciding whether it was okay to lock up juvenile offenders for life without parole -- even when they dont kill anybody. The ...
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• News Coverage of the Juvenile Sentencing Cases

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 530
  As noted yesterday , the transcripts of Sullivan v. Graham and Sullivan v. Florida are available via the Courts website. Scotus Wiki files for Graham v. Florida and Sullivan v. Florida contain all briefing. Lyle Denniston expanded his initial SCOTUS Blog post, " Analysis: The Chief leads on juvenile ...
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• Sotomayor Covers The December Issue of Latina [Reining Supreme]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 815
  Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor prefers red fingernails and hoop earrings? Sonia from the Block represents on newsstands starting on November 17th. [ Yahoo ]
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• Sonia Sotomayor an active questioner, unlike some we can name...

  
  Suits & Sentences — Authority: 469
  Suits & Sentences will just come right out and say it: Justice Sonia Sotomayor has already asked more oral-argument questions in a month than Justice Clarence Thomas has asked in his entire 18-year Supreme Court career. That doesnt make her a better judge, of course. But still... Its actually very hard to figure ...
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• Supreme Court denies stay of execution for D.C. sniper

  
  USATODAY.com Money - Block — Authority: 837
  USA Todays Joan Biskupic reports that the Supreme Court has denied a stay of execution for John Allen Muhammad, the Beltway sniper.
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• "For me, its always been taking the facts of the case and applying them to the law."

  
  Althouse — Authority: 748
  Said former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler , testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, in a hearing on his nomination to the federal district court here in the Western District of Wisconsin. He is, in what has become typical confirmation hearing ritual, asserting his faithfulness to the ...
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• Obamas year of vitriol and rebuff at home, deadlock abroad. Not a bad start at all | Jonathan Freedland

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 157
  Obamas victory speech at Grant Park may seem a distant mirage. But for all the failings, the president can point to real progress On that improbably warm night exactly one year ago, the crowd in Grant Park, Chicago, cheered itself hoarse as Barack Obama, the newly minted president-elect of the United States, stepped ...
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• Court of Appeals Dismisses Canadian Torture Victim’s Case

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  The Second Circuit Court of Appeals just dismissed a landmark lawsuit filed by a Canadian victim of “extraordinary rendition” against former U.S. officials, ruling that torture victims have no right to compensation from the U.S. government, even if U.S. officials were complicit in his treatment. Maher Arar is a ...
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• Full Appeals Court Rejects Suit in Rendition Case

  
  City Room — Authority: 800
  The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that Maher Arar, a Canadian man who claimed that American officials sent him to Syria in 2002 to be tortured, cannot sue for damages because Congress has not authorized such suits.
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• Hating on Goldman Sachs like Republicans hate women

  
  Norwegianity — Authority: 565
  Hmm. Just trying to remember the last time the NYTimes treated a conservative lawmaker like this. “Problem child”? Big mouth wide open? I think we’re more than ready for a new Spy . Maybe Media Matters could find a snarky illustrator to go with their stories. The Daily Beast is too sensationally ...
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• Full Appeals Court Rejects Suit in Rendition Case

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that Maher Arar, a Canadian man who claimed that American officials sent him to Syria in 2002 to be tortured, cannot sue for damages because Congress has not authorized such suits.
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• Correction and apologies | Michael Tomasky

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  I wrote a post the other day about how ridiculous the GOP senators are being about Obamas judicial appointments. I linked to a Slate piece by someone I identified as David Kendall, who was a Clinton administration lawyer. The actual writer was Doug Kendall, who is president of the Constitutional Accountability ...
  2 weeks ago

• OverturnRoe.com Group Gets Even Worse with Sotomayor Flyers

  
  Brave New Wave - Children of a Lesser Revolution — Authority: 437
  Apparently to the Overturnroe . com group to have confirmed Sotomayor was to have confirmed Roe V. Wade. A part of the American democracy is the freedom to disagree with the political institutions of the nation, but in a nation where open dialogue, criticism, and challenges are legal there should be no need to ...
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