Judge Sonia Sotomayor gets her day –her week—in the court of public opinion with Senate confirmation hearings. We'll take the measure of the nominee and the Senate's inquiry.
Guests:
Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor and a legal affairs commentator at Slate.com
Stephen Carter, Professor of Law at Yale and best-selling novelist. He clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. His latest novel, "Jericho's Fall" has just been published. He is also author of non-fiction books such as "The Confirmation Mess: Cleaning up the Federal Appointments Process" and "The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law
and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion"
Wendy Long, legal counsel to the Judicial Confirmation Network, a conservative organization that is opposed to the Sotomayor nomination. Formerly a litigation partner in the law firm Kirkland&Ellis LLP, law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and editor of the Northwestern University Law Review, where she graduated in law cum laude.
