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I launched Confirmation Tales in February 2023 with this introductory post (“Not after I’ve driven all this way!”), and I have published (more or less) weekly posts ever since then. I’m going to use this brief end-of-Supreme-Court-term hiat...
I Invite *Your* Confirmation Tales
Like many of you, I’m going to be paying extra attention to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, as the Court issues rulings in the remaining cases on its docket for the October 2025 term. So as I take a brief break from new posts here, I...
Sonia Sotomayor's Foreign Deceptions
As we have seen, even though she had an easy path to confirmation, Sonia Sotomayor failed to defend the progressive vision of judging at her confirmation hearing and instead strove to sound like a judicial conservative. She resorted to even...
Sonia Sotomayor's Muddle on Foreign Law
As legal disputes emerge, they often become matters of inquiry at Supreme Court confirmation hearings. In the early 2000s, controversy erupted over the increasing reliance by various justices on foreign and international law in interpreting...
An Early Look at Scalia-Ginsburg Friendship
In a deviation from the usual Confirmation Tales fare, let’s take a look at the remarkable story of how one very fortunate law student ended up clerking for Antonin Scalia four decades ago. The story reveals a lot about how the competition...
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