Posts Tagged ‘Supreme Court’
Media Still Playing Out Sessions as Former Judicial Nominee Angle
Many in the media continue to be fascinated by the angle on the Sotomayor confirmation hearings that Senator Sessions was once not confirmed for a judicial post by the very same committee one which he is now ranking member. It is an interesting angle, but it's not the only hook into this story. If things had gone as planned in 1986, the [...]
Sotomayor’s Supposedly High Reversal Rate = 0.8%
Again, my conservative friends who only read headlines are being duped...I've seen Judge Sotomayor's supposed 60% reversal rate at the Supreme Court cited by several people now, and the number is just utterly ridiculous. Even in the news source they use as a citation (The Washington Times mind you...) you read this additional context. Mr. Gibbs [...]
I believe Senator Sessions
I believe Senator Sessions when he says he wants the Supreme Court nominee hearings to be fair, and I will look forward to seeing that carried out. I believe he remembers well what happened to him as a judicial nominee and doesn't want to see what he viewed as unfair treatment given to anyone else. "I really didn't feel like that was a fair [...]
How Sessions May Bring Fireworks to Supreme Court Nomination
TIME Magazine has a piece today on how Sen. Sessions has some incentive to bring fireworks to the nomination process of the next Supreme Court nominee... Twenty-three years ago the same committee he now leads on the Republican side rejected Sessions's; nomination to the federal bench. President Ronald Reagan had already had more than 200 [...]
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