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Sotomayor is right that much of her record demonstrates her opposition to judicial policymaking. In some of her opinions as an appellate judge, she sounds like Justice Antonin Scalia in her insistence that judges should avoid policy considerations at all costs. "The duty of a judge is to follow the law, not to question its plain terms," Sotomayor wrote in a 2006 dissent. "I trust that Congress would prefer to make any needed changes itself, rather than have courts...
...changes to the federal budget suggested a vigorous defense of an answer he gave on the campaign trail. But other moves, such as the recent nomination of Judge Sonia M. Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, whom most legal analysts do not consider a liberal intellectual heavyweight to counter Justice Antonin G. Scalia, or the decision to delay repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, suggest Clintonian moderation. I retain great hopes for the next four (or eight) years of this White House. Alexander Hamilton famously said, “Those who stand for nothing fall...
...anything, Sotomayor may disappoint activists on the left who were hoping that Obama would choose a two-fisted progressive to trade punches with Justice Antonin Scalia, who anchors the conservative end of the court. There are episodes in her history as a judge that Republicans will scrutinize carefully, especially an affirmative-action decision that the Supreme Court is re-examining right now. But absent a time bomb hidden among her rulings and public statements, there's not much Sotomayor's opponents can do to turn her into a scary radical - or to counter that compelling personal story. (Read "Judge Sonia...
...What those decisions offer is a portrait of a moderately liberal jurist, one who may disappoint activists on the left who were hoping that Obama would choose a two-fisted progressive to trade punches with Justice Antonin Scalia, who anchors the conservative end of the court. On Thursday, when he met her for the first time, Obama, a former law professor, engaged Sotomayor, who rose to the federal appeals court in 1998, in a lengthy discussion about the court and the Constitution. Earlier Tuesday, a senior adviser to the President told TIME, "What the President told us afterward was that...
...Montana law will go into effect on Oct. 1, and the ensuing legal battle will be long, perhaps three years or more, Halbrook says. Helmke expects the Brady Campaign to join the fight. The Printz decision was a 5-4 split with the majority opinion written by Justice Antonin Scalia, but this latest challenge could be heard by a court sitting in Obama's second term or his successor's, meaning it will likely be a court with a different lineup...