If Sonia Sotomayor's autobiography has nothing at all about law or even politics...

... why would anyone read it? The book, which covers her life prior to becoming a judge, barely says a word about the Constitution and even...

"But what 'borking' really amounted to was holding the nominee’s vigorously expressed views up to the light for public inspection."

Says Linda Greenhouse: In five days of testimony, then-Judge Bork – a former professor of mine whom I liked and respected – had every opport...

"Reagan's Justice" — an ominous New York Review of Books article about Robert Bork.

I remembered the title of the scary piece (by Ronald Dworkin), which was published in 1984, and I remembered the uber-creepy David Levine c...

"Bork, he was the biggest bleeding-heart liberal of us all."

An old University of Chicago Law School anecdote. And here 's a letter Robert Bork wrote to the Wall Street Journal in 2005: Eric Felten...

Robert Bork has died.

He was 85. From the above-linked NYT obituary: Judge Bork, a bear of a man with a scraggly red beard and untamed frizz on a balding pate who...

Arlen Specter has died.

He was 82. ADDED: He played an important role in Supreme Court nominations: Arriving on Capitol Hill in 1981, he became a dominant force du...

What would the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearing have been like if law professors were blogging back then?

And what about the Bork hearings? And Watergate?! (I assert that Nixon would not have resigned if blogging had been around.)

The Nation: "Elena Kagan should be borked."

In the special Kagan meaning of "bork": In what is by now an oft-quoted snippet from one of her law review articles, Supreme Court...

Live-blogging the VP debate.

7:31, Central Time: I'm here, eating strozzapreti with burned tomato sauce, counting the last few minutes before the grand showdown. 7:3...

Tony Mauro wants to remind people that Joe Biden has treated a few Supreme Court nominees a little shabbily.

He writes: [Clarence Thomas] has less than fond memories of his treatment by Biden, who chaired his stormy 1991 hearing. In his 2007 memoir ...

Charlton Heston, "remembered chiefly for his monumental, jut-jawed portrayals of Moses, Ben-Hur and Michelangelo."

Goodbye to one of the all-time great movie stars, Charlton Heston, who has died at the age of 83. When I read "remembered chiefly for ...

Among the Federalists.

"We thought we had planted a wildflower in the weeds of academic liberalism. Instead it was an oak, " said Antonin Scalia last ni...

"Hnh, Biden stomps some dirt on Robert Bork's grave."

"He wants SCOTUS judges who've lived life, not who 'want an intellectual feast.'" Writes Dave Wiegel , live-blogging t...

"I don't like to call the police or call his boss. . . . I'm a libertarian. I'm not into that."

Said Tucker Carlson about the video store clerk who had blogged about Carlson's previous visit to the store (and called Carlson's w...

"Nobody really cares what I think."

Did anyone still watch the Alito hearings yesterday? It seemed so over. Surely, we lawprofs ought to be interested in hearing what lawprofs...

Alito answers.

Let's take a look at the NYT coverage of Day 2 of the Alito hearings. The two Adams -- Liptak and Nagourney -- have this to say: If Sena...

30 questions for Alito.

The NYT op-ed page features six legal writers coming up with a total 30 questions for Samuel Alito. Leonard A. Leo, the executive vice pres...

Why Congress should impose TV cameras on the Supreme Court.

A few weeks ago, I wrote about a bill in Congress that would impose TV cameras on the Supreme Court, and I raised the question whether it m...

The O'Connor biopic.

Yesterday, we were discussing the new biography of Sandra Day O'Connor. In the comments, readers started to cast the movie made from th...

"A betrayal of the law school's liberal values."

Adam Liptak writes about the way Yale lawprofs treat their own -- graduates Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito and colleague Robert Bork. But...