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GOP Chairman Runs up the White Flag Over Sotomayor

by Patriot-in-Chief on May 31, 2009 · 5 comments

Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele, making an appearance as guest-host of the Bill Bennett radio show last Friday morning, used the opportunity to attempt to distance the GOP from the debate raging over Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court. His primary concern was how any attack against Sotomayor would be played by the [...]

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Janet Napolitano Angles for Supreme Court Nomination?

May 3, 2009

In an interview on FoxNews Sunday, DHS chief Napolitano would not deny her interest in the upcoming vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court due to the departure of Justice David Souter.  Napolitano is of course the former governor and attorney general of Arizona.  There is speculation that she might be on the “short list” of [...]

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Supreme Court judge defends use of foreign law.

April 13, 2009

During a symposium at the Moritz College of Law held recently at Ohio State University, Justice Ruth Ginsberg, the only female to be appointed to our nations highest court, used the forum to defend her use of citations of foreign law in reaching her decisions.
Although the courts conservative members oppose the citation of foreign law in [...]

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