When Bush v. Gore was decided, then-Senator Biden and I wrote to Chief Justice Rehnquist asking that television be permi...
Justice Stevens has said that it is worth a try. Justice Ginsburg at one time said that if it was gavel to gavel, it wou...
In this case where we have a minority woman seeking a position on the Supreme Court, it seems the question is, are you g...
I think we all share that. One of my concerns is that we are seeing judicial activism in restricting the clear intent of...
Absolutely not. I mean, I took one look at her resume, you know, summa cum laude at Princeton, the Yale Law Journal, and...
The nine men and women on the Supreme Court serve lifetime appointments, and they resolve many of our most significant i...
I do not believe that Supreme Court Justices are merely umpires calling balls and strikes.
Judge Sotomayor, I believe you are a warm and intelligent woman.
You face a much harsher judge . . . than this Committee and that is the judgment of history.
We need our Supreme Court Justices to have an understanding of the real world and the impact their decisions have on eve...
Because these issues are so important, we need Justices with intelligence, knowledge of the law, the proper judicial tem...
The questions being asked of you from the other side primarily are along the lines of: will you go too far in siding wit...
Those precedents must be given deference in any situation that arises before the court.
The health and welfare of a woman must be a compelling consideration.
In my view because you have agreed with your Republican colleagues on constitutional issues some 98 percent of the time,...
Precedent is that which gives stability to the law.
Despite the policy concerns that you and I share, you denied the defendant's motion to dismiss and you paved the way for...
The Court is the least accountable. In fact, you might say the Court is unaccountable.
