On Sotomayor and censorship: First the bad news…
Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s record of First Amendment cases has been under scrutiny since President Obama nominated her to the Supreme Court last week. Let’s start with the bad news: In Doninger v....
View ArticleStudent speech under fire under Sotomayor?
Let’s take a look at the implications of Sotomayor’s ruling in the 2008 Doninger v. Niehoff. This ruling relies on the 2007 Supreme Court decision in Morse v. Frederick, better known as the “Bong...
View ArticleThe Good News: Sotomayor’s decision in U.S. v. Quattrone, gagging gag orders
Evaluating where Sonia Sotomayor stands relative to the principles espoused by the First Amendment is frustrating task for two reasons. First, Sotomayor has not authored that many opinions on free...
View ArticleWhat about Souter? A closer look at the Supreme Court’s outgoing Associate...
With all the focus on and furor over the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, it is easy to lose sight of the Justice she is replacing—indeed, he likes it that way. But any discussion of how Sotomayor...
View ArticleSotomayor carefully defended speech in Pappas v. Giuliani
Our analysis of Sotomayor’s free speech record wouldn’t be complete without a mention of her dissent in Pappas v. Giuliani. The case reached the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in 2002 and concerned...
View ArticleSonia Sotomayor: Judicial Minimalism and the Court of Last Resort
Last week, we analyzed cases from the Second Circuit, in which Sonia Sotomayor had some part in deciding, addressing the right to free expression. Still the Supreme Court’s role, and Sotomayor’s...
View ArticleSotomayor is confirmed: What does it mean for the First Amendment?
Judge Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed by the Senate today as the newest member of the Supreme Court, replacing Justice David H. Souter who retired in June. She becomes the 111th member of the U.S....
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