The first interview with Sonia Sotomayor since her confirmation is up on CSPAN, and–with the interviewer prodding her to describe how she received news of her nomination, “for history”–Sotomayor says, basically, that she sat around her office in New York all day, waiting for the White House to call and then they never did. Read More
It's easy to spot a political embarrassment, but getting rid of one isn't always as simple—something that both parties in the U.S. Senate are now being reminded of.
Democrats would just as soon be rid of Roland Burris, the Blagojevich-tainted appointee who is now the subject of investigations by both the Senate ethics committee Read More
I got to the Supreme Court line at 8 a.m. and was told to
talk to a guy in a yellow Nautica jacket about getting in. He handed me a legal
pad and I wrote my name at 196. The order was self-enforcing, he said, and I
was on the cusp; I might get in. Read More
