nytimes.com - 6/16/2009
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Washington LONG past the Civil War, and a generation after the formative civil rights struggle, many of us remain incapable of having a conversation about ethnicity that does not devolve into charges of racism. One recent example of this is the public discussion about the nomination of Judge ...
nytimes.com - 6/18/2009
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Washington THE grass-roots protests that have engulfed Iran
since its presidential election last week have grabbed America’s...
attention and captured headlines unfortunately, so has the clamor from neoconservatives urging President Obama to denounce ...
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Op-Ed Contributor - With Iran, Think Before You Speak
nytimes.com - 6/19/2009
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This article was written by a student in
Iran who, for reasons of safety, did not want...
to be identified by his full name. Tehran WE look over this wall of marching people to see what our friends in the United States are saying about us. We cannot help ...
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Op-Ed Contributor - A Different Iranian Revolution
nytimes.com - 6/14/2009
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THE human side of the recession, in the
new media genre that’s been called “recession porn,” is...
the story of an incremental descent from excess to frugality, from ease to austerity. The super-rich give up their personal jets; the upper middle class ...
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Op-Ed Contributor - Too Poor to Make the News
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"Sotomayor Defends Ties to Association"
How Appealing —
"Sotomayor Defends Ties to Association": Charlie Savage and David D. Kirkpatrick have this article today in The New York Times. In addition, Tom Goldstein of "SCOTUSblog" has an op-ed entitled "Her Justice Is Blind."
Today in USA Today, John Fritze and Joan Biskupic report that "GOP's Sessions 'troubled' over court nominees; Worries Obama picks are activist judges."
The Washington Times reports that "Sotomayor goes on defense against Republican senators."
And at Politico.com, Kenneth P. Vogel and Josh Gerstein report that ...
Goldstein on Sotomayor and Race Cases (Again):
The Volokh Conspiracy —
SCOTUSBlog's Tom Goldstein has an op-ed in today's NYT on how Sonia Sotomayor has handled cases involving race on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Given my high opinion of Goldstein's work, I found the article disappointing. Goldstein frames the article as a response to the charges that Sotomayor is biased or, worse, a "racist." As I've blogged previously, the racist charge is outrageous and unjustified. In this context it is also something of a straw man. Substantively, the op-ed largely rehashes his conclusions from ...
Beyond Ricci
Weekly Standard Blog —
... An email from a friend who takes on blogger and Supreme Court litigator Tom Goldstein's new pro-Sotomayor op-ed in the New York Times -- "Her Justice Is Blind": ...
Hooray for Data! Sotomayor and Rulings on Race
The Monkey Cage —
... Somewhat stunningly, however, it turns out that lifting one line from one speech and focusing on one ruling did not present a complete picture of her past judicial actions. Writing in the NY Times Op-Ed page yesterday, Tom Goldstein reports on his analysis of the almost 100 times that Sotomayor weighed in on issues related to race while serving as an appellate judge. His findings: ...
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