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Supreme Court confirmation hearings are often dismissed as a kind of ritualized theater that reveals little about the judicial philosophy of nominees. But this stereotype is frequently wrong. From David Souter to John Roberts, many nominees have tended to reveal more of themselves than they expect.
The idea that the Supreme Court can make policy shouldn't be controversial after its decisions in two of the most contentious cases of the term that ended last month, one involving voting rights and the other affirmative action. In the voting-rights case, Chief Justice John Roberts produced the...
Sotomayor also spent much of the day defending her handling of the Ricci v. Destefano reverse-discrimination case, which the Supreme Court last month overturned, stating that she had simply followed existing precedent in joining the panel ruling that New Haven was right to deny white firemen promotions when enough...
The Democratic senators - who outnumber their minority colleagues 12-7 - spent much of the day alternatively praising Sotomayor and attacking the Roberts-led court. In fact, Roberts was mentioned more often (16 times) than empathy (10 mentions), which Republicans tried over and over again to use as a line of...
"Presidents come and go," observed former President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft, "but the Supreme Court goes on forever." That prospect troubles historian James MacGregor Burns, whose 15th book is a provocative assault on the "imperious" court and its tightening grip on governmental power. Unaccountable Justices have seized the...