Old Confirmation Wars Fueling Some Critics Now Fair Courts E-lert
Date of E-Lert – 06/30/09
Bibliographic Info:
Author: Neil A. Lewis Source: New York Times Date: 6/25/2009
At the New
York Times, Neil Lewis revisits past Supreme Court confirmation hearings to
make sense of the "fervor with which...criticisms have been hurled" at Judge Sonia
Sotomayor. According to Richard A.
Epstein, who is quoted in the article, "anger over the treatment of past
conservative nominations" - namely, those of Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas - remains
"powerful" and overshadows the otherwise "thin case against...Sotomayor."
