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Election Fallout for Next Supreme Court Vacancy -- By: Ed Whelan
At her confirmation hearing this past July, now-Justice Sonia Sotomayor exasperated and disgusted many of her supporters on the Left by attempting to disguise herself as a judicial conservative. In a recent event in which we both took part, SCOTUSblog’s Tom Goldstein stated emphatically ...
Her Honor: A Portrait of Justice Sonia Sotomayor
latina.com — America has never before met a wise Latina like Sonia Sotomayor . Latina contributor and former Editor-in-Chief... Sandra Guzmán offers the first glimpse of the woman behind the robe in this exclusive profile of the newly minted Supreme Court ... (more) Her Honor: A Portrait of Justice Sonia Sotomayor
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SCOTUSblog — ... Finally, at National Review Online, Ed Whelan ruminates on the next Supreme Court nomination, noting that “the Left will be pushing for the next nominee to be an ardent advocate of the progressive vision of constitutional decisionmaking.”  He predicts that Tuesday’s election results “make it much less likely that the Left will get its wish” if there is a vacancy this summer, as speculated. ...

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