Ruth Marcus is a columnist for the Washington Post. By any
standard, Marcus is left-of-center, not an Obama-basher, and not
hostile to liberal causes. So when Marcus
rejects the White House spin on Sonia Sotomayor’s
“wise
Latina” statement, it deserves attention:
Nice try, Mr. President, but I’m not buying the poor-choice-of-words defense...
I did it because I’m entitled to burn a jet-load full of fuel, even though:
“Scott, you said that – or the President said, repeatedly, that Harriet Miers was the best person for the job. So does that mean Alito is sloppy seconds, or what?”
CBS News Correspondent, John Roberts, at White House Press Briefing, questioning White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan. Roberts later apologized, saying...
Bruce Ackerman, a prominent constitutional law professor at Yale Law School, warned against the tactic of “stealth” Supreme Court nominations, where an ideologically driven President who seeks to change the direction of the Supreme Court nomin...
“There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.” So it is said. We now have reached stage three of the Sotomayor debate, because we are into statistical analysis of her opinions and dissents.
First, some backdrop on statistics as relates to Supreme Court nominees. During the confirmation process for Samuel Alito, then law...
At a 2001 conference, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor
uttered these now-famous words:
“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”
The White House has acknowledged that Sotomayor...
Louis Susman of Chicago was nicknamed “the vacuum cleaner” because he was so good at cleaning out the pockets of the wealthy to get them to give to Democratic causes and candidates. As noted on this blog last February, Susman was in line for ambassadorship to Britain after having raised $240 ...
The New York Times has an article today about Sonia Sotomayor’s board membership at the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEP) starting in the 1980s until she joined the federal judiciary in 1992. According to the article, Sotomayor was far from a passive board member, and took an active...
Barack Obama campaigned on the theme of a new era of transparency. Obama used that theme as a justification for the release of four highly classified internal Justice Department memos detailing strategies for interrogation of al-Qaeda detainees, over the objections of Obama’s own Director of the CIA.
It’s time to bring that...
On December 9, 2008, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald held an emergency press conference to announce a criminal complaint against then Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. While there were many accusations, the most prominent and inflammatory was...
A federal lawsuit has been filed challenging Proposition 8 (via Instapundit and Volokh Conspiracy). The lawsuit was filed last Friday, May 22, 2009, by noted Republican attorney Ted Olson, and noted Democratic attorney David Boies. Olson and Boies were on opposite sides of...
The California Supreme Court has issued a split ruling, upholding Proposition 8 but also upholding the validity of gay marriages which took place prior to passage of Prop. 8.
Proposition 8 enshrined in the California Constitution the traditional definition of marriage, providing that only marriages...
In an earlier post, I noted how one Huffington Post blogger, Allison Kilkenny, had called John Bolton “crazy” just five days ago for warning that North Korea was on the verge of another nuclear test. I wondered whether there would be an apology in light of the North Korean’s nuclear test...
On May 20, 2009, John Bolton wrote an op-ed
for The Wall Street Journal titled “Get Ready for Another North
Korean Nuke Test” in which he noted that the complacency of the
Obama administration about North Korea’s nuclear ambitions (and
Iran’s) was misplaced:
“The curtain is about to rise again on the...
When the NY Times takes Obama to task, I am always a little suspicious. Will this be a “he’s not perfect, but at least he’s not Bush” type of critique; a compliment disguised as a criticism.
So I don’t know what to make of this piece in today’s paper. Noting that Obama’s...
