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| A Higher Bar for Sotomayor |
| By Edward Whelan |
| Posted: Thursday, June 4, 2009 |
| Republican senators who supported Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Second Circuit in 1998 will have ample basis to oppose her Supreme Court nomination. |
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| Replacing Justice Souter |
| By Edward Whelan |
| Posted: Tuesday, May 5, 2009 |
| In a Washington Post symposium, EPPC President Ed Whelan recommends that President Obama revive "the once-dominant species of liberal proponents of judicial restraint." |
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| The Souter Mistake |
| By Edward Whelan |
| Posted: Monday, May 4, 2009 |
| EPPC President Ed Whelan reflects on Justice Souter's legacy in a contribution to a New York Times symposium: "Justice Souter will, in the end, be remembered most as |
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| April |
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| Harold Koh's Transnationalism |
| By Edward Whelan |
| Posted: Monday, April 20, 2009 |
| Harold Koh, President Obama’s nominee to be the State Department’s top lawyer, holds radical transnationalist views that are hostile to fundamental American principles of representative |
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| Look Who's Politicizing Justice Now |
| By Edward Whelan |
| Posted: Monday, April 6, 2009 |
| Less than two months into his tenure as attorney general, Eric Holder has abused the Office of Legal Counsel for the partisan political purpose of overriding its determination that the so-called |
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Green Bag Honors EPPC Amicus Brief
The Green Bag has bestowed its award for Exemplary Legal Writing for 2005 on EPPC's amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court defending the presence of the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the Texas capitol. Congratulations and thanks to Mark A. Perry, Daniel J. Davis, Ryan P. Meyers, and Dustin K. Palmer, all of the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, for their outstanding work. This EPPC brief was one of only two briefs to receive this award.
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| Recent Events |
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The Next Supreme Court Vacancy
Lessons from the Roberts and Alito Confirmation Processes
Mar 14, 2006
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| Two leading commentators on the Roberts and Alito nominations, EPPC President Ed Whelan and New Republic legal affairs editor Jeffrey Rosen, explored what lessons can be drawn from the successful confirmations of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito. If President Bush has the opportunity to nominate another Supreme Court justice, how can the Administration best apply those lessons in order to achieve another victory? How can opponents wage a more effective campaign against a future Bush nominee? Washington Post reporter Charles Lane, one of the nation's best Supreme Court reporters, moderated the discussion. Audio of this event is now available. |
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Justice Antonin Scalia Launches EPPC Lecture Series
Supreme Court Justice speaks on "The Courts and Democracy"
Sep 20, 2004
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| What is the appropriate role of the federal judiciary in our republic? What would the Framers of the Constitution think of today's activist judges? Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia helped launch EPPC's Fall 2004 lecture series with remarks on "The Courts and Democracy." |
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Blogging on the Courts
EPPC President Edward Whelan, the director of the program on The Constitution, the Courts, and the Culture, is a leading contributor to Bench Memos, National Review Online's award-winning blog on judicial nominations and constitutional law. You can read a list of all of his postings here. Paul Mirengoff of the influential Power Line blog has said, "Blogs like NRO’s Bench Memos … enable legal super-stars like Ed Whelan to shoot down bad arguments against nominees within hours."
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