Today we get into the meat and potatoes of the confirmation, where members of the Senate Judiciary Committee ask Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor questions about her judicial philosophy. The Times and Scotusblog are live blogging the hearings.
Don't expect much in the way of fireworks or new details to emerge from the hearings. I do hope that the Committee asks her about her procedural treatment of Ricci, a decision in which all nine members of the US Supreme Court found wanting, even if four members agreed with the ultimate decision of the Second Circuit. The four dissenting members found that while they may have agreed with the outcome of the case, Sotomayor used the wrong standard to reach that end, and if it was a summary judgment, why did they grant it to New Haven.
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