The long wait is over. Sonia Sotomayor was sworn in as the 111th US Supreme Court Justice today. She did not get sworn in at the White House which is a break in tradition urged by President Obama to mark a sign of independence from the partisan nonsense that generally is associated with Right vs...
The Sonia Sotomayor vote will go forward today, and she is no doubt a shoe in to be confirmed. However that doesn't mean that Republicans. aren't making this a huge political show. Some are determined to vote against her based on principal and partisan lines and not based on her record. "The...
David Souter plans to retire this June, which gives Obama his first chance to appoint a new US supreme court justice. Souter was appointed by Bush Sr in 1990, but often disappointed Republicans with voting liberal. There is currently an even split of conservative and liberal justices with just...
