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2009

  • The Supreme Court Slams the Door

    Herman Schwartz

    How a mere "procedural" decision blatantly shortchanges justice.

  • Repairing Our Broken Justice System

    Gara LaMarche : Law & Justice

    We need to change the sorry frame of the debate over judges and the role the judicial system plays in our democracy.

  • Slide Show: Sotomayor's Rise

    Slide Show: Sotomayor's Rise

    Images and analysis from The Nation that capture the story of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor as she makes history.

  • The GOP's 'Wise Latina' Fixation

    The Rachel Maddow Show

    Slate's Dahlia Lithwick examines how Republican rhetoric on race at Sotomayor's confirmation hearings may backfire.

  • Sotomayor Hearings: White Men Can't Judge

    The Daily Show : Humor

    Jon Stewart takes on the absurdity of Senate confirmation hearings by deflating the pomposity of senators from both parties.

  • Judging Sonia Sotomayor

    Judging Sonia Sotomayor

    VideoNation

    As the Senate confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor kick off, The Nation interviews Slate's Dahlia Lithwick for a preview.

  • Buchanan's Bigotry Finds Home on TV

    Media Matters for America : Media Analysis

    Pat Buchanan launches into paranoid racist rants in response to the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court.

  • Sotomayor is a Sporting Judge

    Dave Zirin : Sports

    To gauge her judicial temperament, take a close look at Sonia Sotomayor's rulings in sports. Left-wing in theory, right-wing in practice--no wonder she clicked so smoothly with the Obama administration.

  • The Real Sotomayor

    The Real Sotomayor

    The Editors

    Conservatives should think twice before using Sonia Sotomayor's Latina identity against her.

  • Attacking Sotomayor: Race to the Bottom

    Media Matters for America

    Right wing commentators, with characteristic disregard for reason or reality, have already begun smearing Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

  • Sonia Sotomayor

    Nation Forum: Sotomayor's Judicial Style

    Three legal scholars assess the impact of Obama's nomination of Federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court.

  • Slide Show: Obama's Supreme Choice

    Slide Show: Obama's Supreme Choice

    : Barack Obama

    Who should the president choose to replace Justice Souter? Here are some images of the candidates on our wish list.

  • Following Souter

    David Cole, Lani Guinier, Dahlia Lithwick, Linda Hirshman and others think outside the box for the next Supreme Court nominee.

  • Boxing Days

    Patricia J. Williams

    Elena Kagan has the intellect, toughness and fair-mindedness to make a great Supreme Court justice.

  • Justice Souter's Jurisprudence

    Justice Souter's Jurisprudence

    Aziz Huq

    He has quietly and diligently mined the law to return history and humanity to the court. Obama would do well to name someone like him.

2008

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