Prairie Weather: How much faith do you have in your judicial system?
AfterDowningStreet: Cheney's top torture lawyers now work for Obama
SCOTUSblog: What Ricci says about the Supreme Court's views of Judge Sotomayor... and about Alito
Bitter Lawyer: Michael Jackson's Top Ten Legal Representations
Welcome Back to Pottersville: What have we learned from Stonewall?
Hill's Country: Rushpublicans and their excuses
South Florida Lawyers: Did you know that if you graduated summa from Princeton and were EIC of the Yale Law Review, that makes you "intellectually mediocre"? On race, SCOTUSblog examines the record and says it's "absurd to say that Judge Sotomayor allows race to infect her decisionmaking."
Liberal Values: Top "no sh*t" story: Cheney lied about torture saving lives
The Agonist: Pakistani Ambassador Haqqani is telling the BBC that The Pakistani government is going all in against the Taliban
rubber hose: That Obama isn't backing down on the Israeli settlement issue is surprising, but what's really surprising is that key pro-Israel allies in Congress have been largely reinforcing the Obama team's message to Netanyahu.
onegoodmove: Some great links...
Aside from a few high-profile issues, most Supreme Court decisions are read into the casebooks without public notice. We've gone almost four full years since Bush restaffed the court with Alito and Roberts, yet there has been little examination of their impact on jurisprudence.
That's changing. As the fight over Obama's first appointment picks up and attention turns to the future of the Court, we can expect examination of the Court's present. Jeff Toobin gets the ball rolling, noting that its Chief Justice is a wingnut:
The kind of humility that Roberts favors reflects a view that the Court should almost always defer to the existing power relationships in society. In every major case since he became the nation’s seventeenth Chief Justice, Roberts has sided with the prosecution over the defendant, the state over the condemned, the executive branch over the legislative, and the corporate defendant over the individual plaintiff. Even more than Scalia, who has embodied judicial conservatism during a generation of service on the Supreme Court, Roberts has served the interests, and reflected the values, of the contemporary Republican Party.
The article is a great foundation for understanding the stakes with this nomination.
