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Ed Whelan’s Confirmation Tales

Ed Whelan
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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...

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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...

13 days ago
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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...

20 days ago
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Why Sotomayor Failed to Defend the Progressive Vision of Judging

Just before Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing began, Democrats acquired their 60th seat in the Senate. Sotomayor’s path to confirmation couldn’t have been easier.

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Sotomayor’s Account of Her Judicial Philosophy Appalls Progressives

“I was completely disgusted by Judge Sotomayor’s testimony today. If she was not perjuring herself, she is intellectually unqualified to be on the Supreme Court. If she was perjuring herself, she is morally unqualified. How could someone wh...

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