The selection has been made and the debate is underway. Until her Senate confirmation, Sonya Sotomayor, President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, is under fire. As the first Latina and third woman ever to be nominated for the bench, Sotomayor represents great progress, both for the legal profession and for American politics alike. However, some have [...]

Justice Souter’s resignation from the United States Supreme Court on Friday has all of Washington twittering (and tweeting, for that matter) about the President’s upcoming nominations for the seat. Obama, once a professor of constitutional law, has hinted that he “seeks someone who understands that justice isn’t about some abstract legal theory or footnote in [...]