Sen. Bond
WASHINGTON — It came as no surprise when Sen. Christopher “Kit” Bond declared moments ago that he would support President Obama’s choice of Sonia Sotomayor to become a Supreme Court justice.
Bond, R-Mo., decried the effects of partisanship “infecting” the political system and said…
Sonia Sotomayor
WASHINGTON — Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., isn’t wasting time in the early moments of the Senate Judiciary Committe’s hearings on Sonia Sotomayor and the Supreme Court, contending that her nomination is “another step down the road to a liberal, activist” court.
Sessions,…
Sen. Bond
WASHINGTON — There’s a lot of talk about something called Ricci v. DeStefano in breaking down President Barack Obama’s nomination of Appellate Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.
Soon, the conversation could shift to GOP v. Irked Conservatives.
Ricci v. DeStefano is the alleged reverse…
Blunt, left, and Clay
Southwest Missouri Republican Roy Blunt and St. Louis Democrat Lacy Clay – who, as members of the U.S. House, will be spectators like the rest of us to the Senate’s Supreme Court confirmation process – have nonetheless offered…
Sonia Sotomayor
WASHINGTON — You’ll be hearing a lot about it soon, so we might as well get to it now.
In building their case against federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor, conservatives have been looking hard at a six-year-old case from Connecticut dealing with what is…
Sen. Burris
WASHINGTON - Illinois Sen. Roland Burris doesn’t have a lot to say in Washington as a first-termer who arrived in the Capitol with cloud over his head from his associations with cast-out former governor Rod Blagojevich.
But Burris, a former attorney general in…
