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7:05 AM ET, May 27, 2009

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John Yoo / The Enterprise Blog:
Empathy Triumphs Over Excellence  —  President Obama's nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor shows that empathy has won out over excellence in the White House.  Sotomayor has sterling credentials: Princeton, Yale Law School, former prosecutor, and federal trial and appellate judge.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Huck comes out firing — at ‘Maria’ Sotomayor  —  Mike Huckabee comes out hard against the Sonia Sotomayor appointment, with a bit of a misfire as concerns her name: … post comment | … Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)  —  Unbelievable.  How do you still have credibility in judging …
Aaron Blake / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
RNC fumbles Sotomayor talking points  —  Whoops.  The Republican National Committee (RNC) has apparently inadvertently released its list of talking points on the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.  —  Included on the released list were a few hundred influential Republicans …
New York Times:
Obama Hails Judge as ‘Inspiring’  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama announced Tuesday that he would nominate Sonia Sotomayor, a federal appeals judge in New York, to the Supreme Court, choosing a daughter of Puerto Rican parents who was raised in a Bronx public housing project to become the nation's first Hispanic justice.
Satyam Khanna / Think Progress:
Inhofe worries that Sotomayor may allow ‘undue influence from her own personal race, gender.’  —  Republican members of Congress have been trying to subtly raise questions about Sonia Sotomayor's objectivity — simply because of her non-traditional race, gender, and upbringing.
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Identity Justice  —  Responding to early 19th-century rumors that they drank excessively, the Supreme Court justices decided to drink nothing on conference days — unless it was raining.  At the next conference, Chief Justice John Marshall asked Joseph Story to scan the sky for signs of rain.
Richard A. Epstein / Forbes:
The Sotomayor Nomination  —  The hidden costs of presidential empathy.  —  In a previous Forbes column, I decried President Barack Obama's insistence that empathy would weigh heavily in the scales when it came to his next Supreme Court nominee.  And reading the arguments that were put forth …
Mark Halperin / The Page:
Rush Limbaugh on Sonia Sotomayor Nomination  —  Do you think we should go to the mat stopping Sotomayor?  Do you think we oughta go to the wall to oppose her?  And I said absolutely we should.  Once again, an opportunity to draw the distinct contrast that exists today between conservatives …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Sotomayor's Rulings Are Exhaustive but Often Narrow  —  WASHINGTON — Judge Sonia Sotomayor's judicial opinions are marked by diligence, depth and unflashy competence.  If they are not always a pleasure to read, they are usually models of modern judicial craftsmanship, which prizes careful attention …
Discussion: TalkLeft
Greg Mankiw / Greg Mankiw's Blog:
SCOTUS appointee is a spender  —  I once wrote a short paper called The Savers-Spenders Theory of Fiscal Policy based on the premise that there are two types of people: Some save and intertemporally optimize their consumption plans, while others live paycheck to paycheck, spending their entire income as soon as it's received.
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Republicans won't beat Sonia Sotomayor by attacking her as too darn human.  —  Confirmation hearings are inevitably an invitation to behave badly.  Something about the bright lights of the Senate judiciary committee brings out the worst in people.  Legal thinkers who are otherwise reasonable …
Jeanne Cummings / The Politico:
Right divided over court fight  —  Conservative groups know they want to oppose Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor — but exactly how that campaign will be conducted is a major unanswered question that is splitting the Republican right.  —  The early fissure among opponents to Sotomayor …
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court overrules Michigan v. Jackson
Discussion: NPR Blogs
Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Conservatives Blast Obama's Hispanic SCOTUS Nominee As 'Not The …
Fox News:
Sotomayor's Judicial Record Could Be Battlefield for Critics, Advocates
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Obama's choice of Sotomayor deserves praise
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:   Yoo on Sotomayor: No Threat to the Revolution
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:   What SCOTUS pick says about Obama
Ilya Somin / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Would Sotomayor be the First Hispanic Justice?
Discussion: Pajamas Media
Dana Goldstein / American Prospect:
OH NO: WHO WILL REPRESENT WHITE MALES ON THE COURT?
Discussion: TPMDC
David Stout / New York Times:
Justices Ease Rules on Questioning
Discussion: ACS Blog
Carol Williams / L.A. Now:
Bush vs. Gore rivals challenge Prop. 8 in federal court  —  Two prominent attorneys who argued on opposite sides of Bush vs. Gore, the legal battle over the 2000 presidential election, announced Tuesday that they will challenge Proposition 8 in federal court and seek to restore gay marriage until the case is decided.
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Maura Dolan / Los Angeles Times:
Prop. 8 upheld by California Supreme Court  —  The justices uphold the same-sex marriage ban but also rule that the 18,000 gay couples who wed before the November vote will stay married.  The decision is sure to spark another ballot box fight.  —  Reporting from San Francisco …
Andrew Harmon / Advocate:
Prop.  8 Challenge Filed in Federal Court  —  In a bold move that takes a new approach to achieving marriage equality, two attorneys who argued opposing sides of the 2000 Bush v. Gore lawsuit before the U.S. Supreme Court have filed a challenge to Proposition 8 in federal court, The Advocate has learned.
Mercury News:
San Francisco police arrest 175 anti-Prop 8 protesters  —  San Francisco police arrested about 175 protesters who were part of a group that blocked a major intersection for hours today in response to the state Supreme Court's ruling upholding Proposition 8, the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage.
Chicago Breaking News:
Burris taped offering a check to Blagojevich  —  A transcript of a secretly recorded phone call between the brother of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich and U.S. Sen. Roland Burris was released in federal court today, a call in which Burris, then seeking the Senate seat, was recorded offering the Blagojevich campaign a campaign check.
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Wall Street Journal:
Millionaires Go Missing  —  Maryland's fleeced taxpayers fight back.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  Here's a two-minute drill in soak-the-rich economics:  —  Maryland couldn't balance its budget last year, so the state tried to close the shortfall by fleecing the wealthy.
Discussion: theblogprof and The Real Revo
Heejin Koo / Bloomberg:
North Korea Threatens Armed Strike, End to Armistice  —  North Korea threatened military action in response to South Korea joining a program to seize weapons shipments, and said it's no longer bound by the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War.  —  South Korea's actions are tantamount to a …
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BBC:
North Korea ‘fires more missiles’
Discussion: The Reaction
CNN:
Montana town wants Gitmo detainees  —  HARDIN, Montana (CNN) — The tiny town of Hardin, Montana, is offering an answer to a very thorny question: Where should the nation put terror detainees if the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is shut down by the end of the year as President Obama has pledged?
 
 
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