Questions for Judge Sotomayor  —  Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, is scheduled to appear today at a confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.  The Op-Ed editors asked seven legal experts to pose the questions they would like to hear the nominee answer.

Schedule, Day by Day  —  The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to open a weeklong hearing on whether to confirm Judge Sonia Sotomayor to be an associate justice on the Supreme Court at 10 a.m. Monday.  The hearing will be broadcast live on C-Span and will be streamed online at the committee's Web site.

Sotomayor's Critics Are the Radicals  —  This week's hearings on Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court represent the opening skirmish in a long-term struggle to challenge the escalating activism of an increasingly conservative judiciary.  —  The Senate's Republican minority does …

Republican pundits open fire on Sarah Palin  —  Their harsh views conflict with those of grass-roots GOP voters, revealing a serious split within the party.  —  Since announcing her resignation, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has been pummeled by critics who have called her incoherent, a quitter, a joke and a “political train wreck.”