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...

Sotomayor, the college years.

One slide in a long, narrated slideshow at NPR.com . I picked that one out because it's so different from the others and from every othe...

What is Drudge trying to say about Sonia Sotomayor?

This is at the top of the right-hand column at Drudge this morning: Now, as we saw last night , what Justice Sotomayor did was deny an emer...

"The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to block the Obama administration's contraception mandate from taking effect."

"Justice Sonia Sotomayor rejected a request for an emergency injunction that would have shielded employers from the mandate." Opin...

That detail from Sonia Sotomayor's wedding night.

Seemingly the juiciest item in her new autobiography: She married her high school sweetheart, Kevin Noonan, soon after they graduated from c...

"A challenge to a federal law that authorized intercepting international communications involving Americans appeared to face an uphill climb at the Supreme Court..."

"... on Monday, but not one quite as steep as many had anticipated," observes Adam Liptak at the NYT . The question in the case wa...

"All Stephanie [Cutter] wants is results."

"She is an old-school, take-no-prisoners political operative. Losing is not tolerated." In her role as Mrs. Obama’s chief of staff...

How can the Supreme Court escape from the perception that it's partisan?

Lawprof Barry Friedman is working on the theory that people have lost trust in the Court (or so the polls show) because they perceive the C...

The Supreme Court's new double jeopardy case divided 6-3 on gender lines: was this "some sort of gender-related 'empathy'"?

Lawprof Mark Tushnet wonders , noting the dissent limited to the 3 female Justices — Ginsburg, Kagan, and Sotomayor — and expressing the bel...

"This case demonstrates that the threat to individual freedom from reprosecutions that favor States and unfairly rescue them from weak cases...

"... has not waned with time. Only this Court’s vigilance has."  So ends the dissenting opinion in Blueford v. Arkansas , written ...

"No part of your argument has to do with racial or ethnic profiling?" asked Chief Justice Roberts, and the SG agreed.

The Arizona immigration case is emphatically not about the issue that seems to be all people opposed to the law argue about in the politica...

A torture victim cannot sue the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian Liberation Organization under the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991.

Says a unanimous Supreme Court, in an opinion ( PDF ) written by Justice Sotomayor. Sotomayor — why, by the way was nominated by a President...

When it comes to the Obamacare case, you just can't lose.

Let me state the obvious and not belabor it: Whoever loses will easily and powerfully leverage that loss in the political arena. If Obama lo...

The Supreme Court Justices "seemed to be all on the same page looking for a way to go ahead and decide the case even though they had different views on what theory to use."

A first report from today's oral argument about the applicability of the Anti-Injunction Act to the Obamacare litigation. Kevin Russell ...

Only 28% of likely voters rate the Supreme Court "excellent" or "good."

This is the lowest Rasmussen has recorded (since it began tracking this question in 2006.) Voters from all party affiliations give the Supr...

"Hey, I heard that there was a Supweem Court Justice on 'Sesame Street.'"

"There is, Baby Bear. There is."/"Hi, Baby Bear. I am Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, but you can call me 'Justice...

"One night at a gathering at an apartment in New York City, a woman blithely announced, 'I would pay someone to have sex with my husband.'"

"There were snorts and yips of laughter. I believe one woman even clapped. 'What did they mean?' I asked my friend. '"...

The Supreme Court takes a global warming case....

... with Justice Sonia Sotomayor recusing herself. American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut involves the use of a common law theory of ...

“Neither Steve Breyer nor Ruth Ginsburg has much of a purchase on Tony Kennedy’s mind.”

That's actually the most embarrassing sentence in Larry Tribe's letter to Obam a about who to nominate to the Supreme Court. I love ...

"It was just a pro se prisoner petition in a big stack of IFPs that normally would be short-formed with a quick 'Splitless, factbound, I recommend DENY.'"

Orin Kerr puzzles over Justice Sotomayor's "rather remarkable dissent from denial of certiorari in Pitre v. Cain , a pro se Eighth...