Gamso - For the Defense

They're now underway, and it's clear that I was right.  The confirmation hearings are about as vapid as you might expect. Anything t...

We're down to the wire. The hearings begin in the morning. Generalissima Kagan told us 15 years ago that confirmation hearings for Sup...

So Stevens has made it official. Obama gets another pick. The Republicans are taking the field in an effort to Scuttle any nomination becau...

So now they're blathering again. They're all saying what you knew they would, of course. (Were there any doubt, they've all is...

You watch the hearings hoping for a hint that you're wrong. Maybe, just maybe, Judge Sotomayor really does believe that the Constitutio...

Our next Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor, sitting patiently as the senators blather on (Slate has this great chart comparing how man...

I'm back from several days at a death penalty defense seminar and the preparation of a major brief on Ohio's sex offender law. Much...

Let's talk about the upcoming Senate hearings on whether Sonia Sotomayor will be confirmed as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court....