Supreme Court

President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, is in front of the election as Democrats far outnumbered Republicans on Capitol Hill. Despite all this, her confirmation is yet to be assured because democrats have only 59 votes in the Senate, one short of the 60 needed to prevent a postponement.
But all this could [...]

Ex-Governour of Illinois, current 44th (could it be a lucky number?) President of the United States, Barack Obama named Sonia Sotomayor as a nominee for the highest court of law. This morning, May 26th, Obama choose the Hispanic judge, aged 54, for the Supreme Court. As the statement appeared from two sources of USA TODAY, [...]

It appears that nominating a gay American for the Supreme Court is not entirely possible due to the intolerance of at least one high profile Republican senator who would not like to see this happening.
The Conservative leaders think that the nomination of a gay or lesbian justice could only make things worse for President Obama [...]

I bet most of you reading this know of the case, even if it’s not new by far at this point. In 2004, at a show for the Super Bowl, Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake had an act together which ended with a nice view for watchers…and they were millions as it was broad-casted [...]

Last week David Souter announced that he wants to retire from the Supreme Court and everyone was surprised, as Souter is a 69 years old healthy man and also one of the youngest from the Supreme Court.
Now Obama has to choose another one to replace him and he will probably pick Sonia Sotomayor, a Hispanic [...]

Now it’s official that David Souter will retire from the Supreme Court when his current mandate ends. Justice David Souter will remain in charge until the US officials chose and confirm his successor, however, it could take longer than the ending of the current term. Reports say that it will be hard to choose another [...]