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Saturday, May 30, 2009

"Court Choice Pushes 'Identity Politics' to Forefront": The New York Times on Sunday will contain this article, along with an article headlined "Sotomayor Would Be Sixth Catholic Justice, but the Pigeonholing Ends There." Adam Liptak will have a Week in Review article headlined "The Waves Minority Judges Always Make." And the newspaper will contain an editorial entitled "Judging Sonia Sotomayor." Today's newspaper, meanwhile, contains articles headlined "Obama Says Sotomayor Would Clarify a Remark" and "In Puerto Rico, Supreme Court Pick With Island Roots Becomes a Superstar."

Sunday in The Washington Post, Robert Barnes and Eli Saslow will have an article headlined "Bias Case Looms Large for Nominee; Ruling on Firefighters' Lawsuit Raises Questions About Sotomayor's Philosophy." Tomorrow's newspaper will also contain an article headlined "Friends Provide Glimpse Into Nominee's 'Very Full Life.'" And today's newspaper contains an article headlined "Obama Says Judge Regrets Wording; GOP Leaders Try to Rein In Reactions to Sotomayor's 2001 Speech."

Sunday's edition of The Los Angeles Times will contain articles headlined "Two sides to Sonia Sotomayor: The passion for minority rights that she showed from Princeton onward is scarcely reflected in a review of her judicial decisions; So which way would she lean on the Supreme Court?" and "Would Sotomayor really be the first Supreme Court Latino? Some say that Justice Benjamin Cardozo, reportedly of Portuguese descent, beat her to it in the 1930s; The debate renews old questions about the labels 'Latino' and 'Hispanic.'" Today's newspaper, meanwhile, contains an article headlined "Some Republicans rebuke Limbaugh, Gingrich on Sotomayor criticism; Accusations that the Latina Supreme Court nominee is racist can only hurt the party, say GOP members who advocate a more civil debate." And CBS News legal analyst Andrew Cohen has an op-ed entitled "Make Sotomayor's confirmation hearings worth hearing: The Senate questioning of Supreme Court nominees has become a farce; This time, let's have Sonia Sotomayor say more and senators say less."

And Michael Doyle of McClatchy Newspapers reports that "Sotomayor's record reveals she's far from soft on crime."
Posted at 11:58 PM by Howard Bashman



"Supreme Court to Address Meeting the Needs of Special-Education Students": This article will appear Sunday in The New York Times.
Posted at 11:50 PM by Howard Bashman


"Judge Sotomayor and Race -- Results from the Full Data Set": Tom Goldstein had this post last night at "SCOTUSblog," expanding on his related post from earlier yesterday.
Posted at 11:42 PM by Howard Bashman


"Federal appeals court won't reinstate 'Jesus speech' lawsuit": The Gazette of Colorado Springs today contains an article that begins, "A federal appeals court Friday rejected a former Lewis-Palmer High School student's claim that her free-speech rights were violated when she was disciplined for bringing up Jesus in her graduation speech."

And The Associated Press reports that "Colo. student loses appeal over graduation speech."

You can access yesterday's ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit at this link.
Posted at 11:22 PM by Howard Bashman



The Associated Press is reporting: Now available online are articles headlined "Obama: Efforts to scuttle Sotomayor will fail"; "Obama court pick puts spotlight on Sen. Sessions"; and "GOP divided over how tough to be on Sotomayor."
Posted at 11:14 PM by Howard Bashman


"Gov't refuses to release documents in wiretap case": The Associated Press has a report that begins, "The Obama administration insists it has no obligation to provide access to a top secret document in a wiretapping case, setting up a showdown next week with the judge who ordered it released."

At Wired.com's "Threat Level" blog, David Kravets has a post titled "Obama Says Government Sanctions Unwarranted in Spy Case."

And at "SCOTUSblog," Lyle Denniston has a post titled "Secrets and 'need to know.'"
Posted at 11:05 PM by Howard Bashman



"High court is urged to block 9/11 suit against Saudis": The Philadelphia Inquirer today contains an article that begins, "In a setback for insurers and individual victims of the 9/11 attacks, U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan urged the Supreme Court yesterday to reject allegations that Saudi Arabia was responsible because it indirectly financed al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups."

The New York Times reports today that "Justice Dept. Backs Saudi Royal Family on 9/11 Lawsuit."

And The Associated Press reports that "9/11 families angered by US support for Saudis."
Posted at 03:45 PM by Howard Bashman




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