Judicial supremacy Sheila July 15, 2009 The Sotomayor confirmation hearings are dominating the news all this week, though the outcome is a virtual certainty. One of Read More
Rhetorical subterfuge at fed health Sheila July 14, 2009 It’s easier to fool the people when a) the subject is already complex and convoluted and b) you spin Read More
What they’re really saying in that Senate Sheila July 13, 2009 This is some novel reporting, and better than a lot of other Senate/Court coverage out there right now. In Read More
That was then, this is now Sheila July 13, 2009 Among the morning’s opening remarks by various senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee at the start of Sotomayor’s Read More
The role of the court is the Sheila July 13, 2009 The Senate confirmation hearings on Judge Sonia Sotomayor offer us the opportunity to see the divide between the ideologies of Read More
When they say stem cell research…. Sheila July 12, 2009 …..first ask ‘which kind?’, to clarify if the topic is embryonic or adult or cord blood (or other) stem cells. Read More
More abortion, fewer ‘undesirables’ Sheila July 10, 2009 It’s not a stretch to see Justice Ginsburg’s remarks in the New York Time’s interview as saying Read More
Ginsburg drops a bomb Sheila July 10, 2009 This goes beyond staunch support for abortion. Is Ginsburg a eugenicist? U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg seems Read More
Call them extremists and book ’em Sheila July 6, 2009 There’s a bill stealthily moving through Congress that would allow the nation’s Attorney General to classify pro-life Americans Read More
Before federal funding of embryo research comes Sheila July 3, 2009 Obama quickly dissoved the bioethics council that might have actually analyzed and critiqued the policy. He prefers a rubber-stamp approach Read More
