July, 2009 Entries

July 31

    • At Least They're Consistent--Sort Of
    • Re: Republican Vote Tally on Sotomayor
    • Sotomayor’s Transnationalist Threat
    • “Elections Have Consequences”
    • Washington Post’s Misplaced Praise for Senator Graham
    • This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—July 31

July 30

    • Sotomayor’s Empty Statements on Not “Making” Law
    • Sotomayor vs. Roberts and Alito
    • Re: David Boies, A Man in Search of an Argument
    • Sonia Sotomayor’s Foreign Deceptions
    • Senator Corker Opposing Sotomayor
    • This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—July 30

July 29

    • Republican Vote Tally on Sotomayor
    • Another Step to the Left for Harry Reid
    • Yesterday’s Committee Vote
    • Gallup: Hispanic Support for Obama Falls
    • Kay Bailey Hutchison: No to Sotomayor
    • This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—July 29

July 28

    • Yes, It's Significant
    • 6 of 7 GOP Committee Votes
    • Sotomayor Falling in Polls
    • This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—July 28

July 25

    • This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—July 25

July 24

    • Hatch's Devotion to the Constitution
    • Senator Hatch's Devotion to the Constitution
    • Hatch Says No

July 23

    • They Shoot, They Score
    • Just Say No

July 22

    • Graham: Of Edginess and Asses
    • Sen. Graham Does the Expected
    • Graham: More Activist Than Sotomayor
    • This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—July 22

July 21

    • What Does Judge Sotomayor Know?

July 20

    • Sotomayor’s Answers to Sessions’s Written Questions
    • Re: Leahy's Racial Politics
    • David Boies, A Man in Search of an Argument
    • Sotomayor Status Report
    • Leahy’s Racial Politics
    • Is the Justice Department Reassessing Its Policies in Light of Ricci?
    • Judge Sotomayor at the Ricci Oral Argument
    • This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—July 20

July 17

    • Sotomayor’s Cover-Up on Foreign Law
    • Sotomayor’s Snookering of Graham and Hatch on PRLDEF Abortion Briefs
    • Former Sotomayor Supporter to Oppose Sotomayor
    • Re: Senator Leahy’s Level of Integrity
    • Republican Leader McConnell to Oppose Sotomayor
    • Supreme Court Roundup Today!
    • This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—July 17

July 16

    • Senators Durbin and Klobuchar Wanting to Both Eat and Have Their Cake
    • Grading Sotomayor
    • Sotomayor Hearing—Coburn’s Round 3
    • Sotomayor Hearing—Cornyn’s Round 3
    • Sotomayor Hearing—Graham’s Round 3
    • Sotomayor Hearing—Kyl’s Round 3
    • Sotomayor Hearing—Grassley’s Round 3
    • Senator Sessions's Latest Round of Questions
    • Sotomayor Hearing—Hatch’s Round 3
    • Sotomayor Hearing—Sessions’s Round 3
    • Senatorial Questioning
    • Sotomayor Hearing—Coburn’s Round 2
    • Sotomayor Hearing—Cornyn’s Round 2
    • Supreme Court Roundup
    • Sotomayor Hearing—Graham’s Round 2
    • Senator Kyl’s Second-Round Questioning
    • Sotomayor Hearing—Kyl’s Round Two
    • Linda Chavez’s Column This Week
    • Are Conservatives Losing the Battle But Winning the War?
    • Transcript Gap
    • DeMint: Sotomayor’s “Jaw-droppers”

July 15

    • Comiskey Park vs. “Cominskey Field”
    • Senator Hatch’s Round-Two Questions
    • Sotomayor Hearing—Hatch’s Round 2
    • Senator Leahy’s Round-Two Questions
    • Sotomayor Hearing—Kohl’s Round 2
    • Sotomayor Hearing—Sessions’s Round 2
    • Fake Umpire Hiding Behind Fake Love of Baseball?
    • Questions from Senator Franken
    • Senator Specter’s Questioning
    • Deconstructionism Takes a Hit
    • Sotomayor Dissembling on Ricci
    • Fiasco for Progressives
    • Muddled or Deceptive?
    • ¿Quien es mas sabia: Sonia o Linda?
    • Senator Klobuchar’s Questioning
    • More Sotomayor on Use of Foreign Law
    • Sotomayor Hearing—Whitehouse’s Round 1
    • Justice Malaprop?
    • Why Doesn't Sotomayor Know Abortion Law?
    • Sotomayor Hearing—Coburn’s Round 1
    • Sotomayor Hearing—Cardin’s Round 1
    • Sotomayor and the Importance of Diversity
    •  Sotomayor and Felon Voting
    • More on Cornyn’s Questioning
    • Cornyn’s Questioning
    • Sotomayor Hearing—Cornyn’s Round 1
    • Sotomayor Hearing—Status Report
    • Catching Up on Your Reading
    • This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—July 15

July 14

    • Senator Graham’s Questioning
    • Senator Schumer’s Questioning
    • Senator Kyl’s Questions re the 'Wise Latina' Speech
    • Re: Liberal Law Professors Against Sotomayor?
    • Liberal Law Professors Against Sotomayor?
    • Sotomayor’s Confusion on Use of Foreign Law
    • Sotomayor Hearing—Graham’s Round 1
    • Sotomayor Hearing—Schumer’s Round 1
    • "Don't become a speech writer if this law thing doesn't work out"
    • Sotomayor Hearing—Kyl’s Round 1
    • Sotomayor Hearing—Feingold’s Round 1
    • Sotomayor Hearing—Grassley’s Round 1
    • Re: Sotomayor: "I am a historian by undergraduate training"
    • Sotomayor: "I am a historian by undergraduate training"
    • Channeling Benjamin Cardozo?
    • Sotomayor: Rhetoric v. Record
    • No More Live Blogging
    • Sotomayor Hearing -- Feinstein's Round 1
    • Senator Feinstein and Ricci
    • Hatch’s Questioning re Ricci
    • Republicans Need to Press Sotomayor . . .
    • Sotomayor and Kohl’s Broad Question on 'Affirmative Action'
    • Was Ricci a Close Call?
    • Sotomayor Hearing -- Hatch's Round 1
    • Sotomayor and Adarand
    • Sotomayor Hearing -- Kohl's Round 1
    • More Sotomayor Fact Checking
    • Sotomayor and Ricci
    • Sotomayor Hearing -- Sessions's Round 1
    • Tele-Town Hall With Meese and DeMint Today!
    • Sotomayor Hearing -- Leahy's Round 1
    • Sotomayor's Wise Latina Lie
    • Leahy's Wise Latina Lie
    • Re: Roberts Redux
    • Live-Blogging the Hearing
    • This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—July 14
    • Possible Questions For Sotomayor
    • Ricci Shenanigans

July 13

    • More with Bill Bennett tomorrow
    • Sotomayor Quote of the Day: Bias
    • Two Thoughts on Sotomayor
    • Senator Leahy’s Level of Integrity
    • Sotomayor Day 1
    • Stuart Smalley in Sotomayor Hearing
    • Day 1 Review
    • Sotomayor’s Opening Testimony
    • Tele-Town Hall Tomorrow Featuring Former Attorney General Ed Meese and Senator DeMint
    • Upcoming Opening Testimony by Sotomayor
    • Senators’ Opening Statements
    • Hatch and Graham Remember Miguel Estrada
    • Senator Leahy Leads With the Race Card
    • Partial-Birth Abortion Questions for Sotomayor
    • Return of the Quota Queen
    • Preview of Day 1 of the Sotomayor Confirmation Hearing

July 12

    • Hearings Week

July 11

    • PFAW vs. Frank Ricci:

July 10

    • Federalist Society Online Debate on the Sotomayor Nomination
    • What About the Hispanic Firefighter?
    • This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—July 10

July 09

    • More on Judicial Supremacy
    • Sotomayor’s Activist Cases: Sotomayor’s 11-word-dismissal of the Second Amendment
    • ABA’s Askew Evaluation of Sotomayor?
    • Greens for Sotomayor
    • Hearing Witness List
    • Fourth Circuit's Chief Judge Retires
    • Re: Law Professors for [Fill in the Obama Nominee]
    • Re: “Public Support for Sotomayor Falls After Supreme Court Reversal”
    • This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—July 9

July 08

    • No Leg to Stand On
    • Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Sotomayor and Abortion for Undesired “Populations”
    • “Ricci and the Skills Gap”
    • Americans Against Racial Quotas and Preferences

July 07

    • Andy vs. Ramesh
    • Sotomayor and PRLDEF’s Extreme Abortion Record
    • Obama Out-Nixons Nixon?
    • Hadley Strikes Again
    • Pedantic Footnote Time

July 06

    • Signing Off for Now
    • Defending Marriage in California
    • One Week From Now
    • This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—July 6
    • She's "Conservatively Liberal." And Pay No Attention to that Little Speech.

July 05

    • This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—July 5

July 04

    • Yes, It's Really Our Birthday
    • This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—July 4

July 03

    • Indeterminacy

July 02

    • Still More on the Courts and Equal Protection
    • Ambassador Kmiec
    • More on EPC and the Courts
    • Re: EPC and the Courts
    • “Public Support for Sotomayor Falls After Supreme Court Reversal”

July 01

    • EPC and Colorblindness
    • Re: Judge Sotomayor’s Misreliance on Foreign and International Law
    • The Judicial Power in a Fallen World
    • Playing the Quota Game

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