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Op-Ed Contributors - Questions for Judge Sotomayor
Op-Ed Contributors - Questions for Judge Sotomayor
Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court, is scheduled to appear today at a confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Op-Ed editors asked seven legal experts to pose the questions they would like to hear the nominee answer. 1. Advocacy of ...
Op-Ed Columnist - 3 Days of the Sotomayor
Op-Ed Columnist - 3 Days of the Sotomayor
nytimes.com — DAY 1 JUDICIARY COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN PATRICK LEAHY: Judge Sotomayor, welcome to you and your large and lovely... family, including your mother, who I believe saved up to buy your first encyclopedia when she was a hard-working widow. Let me begin the ... (more) Op-Ed Columnist - 3 Days of the Sotomayor
Does Judge Sotomayor Have a Tax Problem?
taxprof.typepad.com — Following up on this morning's post, Judge Sotomayor's Law Practice: A Tax Dodge?: the issue was first... flagged by Glenn Reynolds (Tennessee), and he notes that he "was just following Ralph Winter’s advice from my Business Associations class in law ... (more) Does Judge Sotomayor Have a Tax Problem?
The Republican Questioning of Judge Sonia Sotomayor
washingtonpost.com — Followers of Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court confirmation hearings were witness to a now-familiar phenomenon. Women are treated... differently than men in such settings. (more) The Republican Questioning of Judge Sonia Sotomayor
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The NYT asks "7 legal experts to pose the questions they would like to hear [Sonia Sotomayor] answer."
AlthouseThere are: Stanford lawprof Kathleen M. Sullivan (who asks about the use of federalism to achieve progressive ends and the Supreme Court's response to the detainees), former secretary of homeland security Michael Chertoff (who asks about the influence of evidence, foreign law, and personal sympathy on judicial decisions), Yale lawprof Stephen L. Carter (who focuses on the limitations of the confirmation hearings, asks for the naming of a favorite Supreme Court Justice, and wonders whether Sotomayor will do something about the way these Supreme Court Justices today snipe at each ...

ANN ALTHOUSE AND SIX OTHER LEGAL EXPERTS pose questions for Sotomayor in the New York TImes….
Instapundit — ANN ALTHOUSE AND SIX OTHER LEGAL EXPERTS pose questions for Sotomayor in the New York TImes. ...

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