Cardinal Asks Justices to Protect the Unborn at Red Mass
Posted by Tim Drake
Monday, October 05, 2009 8:08 AM
Six Supreme Court justices, Vice President Joe Biden, and two Cabinet members were among the dozens of other judges and Washington public officials at yesterday’s Red Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington.
During Galveston-Houston, Texas, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo’s homily, which can be read in full here, he called for lawyers to be a voice for all of their clients,... READ MORE
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Sotomayor Confirmed
Posted by Tom McFeely
Thursday, August 06, 2009 2:48 PM
Sonia Sotomayor (CNS)
The U.S. Senate today confirmed Sonia Sotomayor as the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court, by a vote of 68-31.
Sotomayor’s confirmation increases the number of Catholics to six on the nine-member court.
But unlike the other five Catholic justices — John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Anthony Kennedy and Samuel Alito — Sotomayor is expected to be a solidly pro-abortion... READ MORE
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Sotomayor Is No Blessed Mother
Posted by Tim Drake
Thursday, July 16, 2009 8:27 AM
Judge Sonia Sotomayor's face was superimposed on Our Lady of Guadalupe by D.C. attorney Felix Sanchez.
In the midst of Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination confirmation hearings, one Washington politico has recast Mexico’s famous Our Lady of Guadalupe image with the face of the high court nominee.
Felix Sanchez, a Washington, D.C., attorney, CEO of the government and public relations firm TerraCom, and chairman of the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, features the image on... READ MORE
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Some Questions for Sotomayor
Posted by Tom McFeely
Monday, July 13, 2009 2:31 PM
Sonia Sotomayor with Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. (CNS/Reuters)
The Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearings on the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court are now under way.
Wendy Long reports at the Bench Memos blog that Cathy Ruse, the former spokeswoman for the U.S. bishops’ pro-life office, has drafted a line of questioning based on Sotomayor’s conduct in a partial-birth abortion case that could be usefully employed by members of the... READ MORE
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Bork on Sotomayor
Posted by Tom McFeely
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 3:35 PM
Judge Robert Bork (CNS)
Newsweek has published an interview in which Robert Bork discusses, among other things, the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.
He calls it “a bad mistake.”
During the interview, Bork notes that his own 1987 nomination to the Supreme Court was torpedoed solely because of a justified fear he would have voted to overturn the court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision on... READ MORE
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Does Sotomayor Support Abortion?
Posted by Tom McFeely
Thursday, June 11, 2009 8:35 AM
Pro-abortion Catholic Sen. Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, shares a chuckle June 2 with Judge Sonia Sotomayor on Capitol Hill. (CNS)
Ed Whelan of National Review’s Bench Memo blog has called attention to an editorial in yesterday’s Washington Times that suggests Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has a much more substantive pro-abortion history than previously believed.
The Times editorial says Rush Limbaugh was wrong to comment recently that “there’s a better-than-50-50 shot she’s pro-life.”
Writes the Times:... READ MORE
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Brown vs. Roe v. Wade
Posted by Tom McFeely
Tuesday, June 02, 2009 10:02 AM
Carl Anderson contrasts the very different legacies of the two most consequential Supreme Court decisions of the 20th century: Brown v. Board of Education and Roe v. Wade.
Brown ended legal sanction of racial discrimination in the United States; Roe v. Wade inaugurated legal sanction of the killing of unborn children in the United States.
Today, the vast majority of Americans support the... READ MORE
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