Reports on Judge Sotomayor’s Record
In anticipation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings, which begin Monday, July 13 at 10 a.m., we’ve organized by subject matter the dozens of published reports and substantive blog posts about her judicial record. (Links are below the jump; PDFs of longer, more formal reports are noted with an asterisk.) If we’ve left out other significant pieces that analyze her written decisions or provide data–rather than opine on her nomination generally–please e-mail us the link.
General
*Association of the Bar of the City of New York
*Brennan Center for Justice
- Judge Sotomayor’s Record in Constitutional Cases
CNN
- Sotomayor’s resume, record on notable cases
*Congressional Research Service
- Judge Sonia Sotomayor: Analysis of Selected Opinions
Concurring Opinions Blog
- Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who is the Most Activist of Them All?
Ethics and Public Policy Center-Ed Whelan
- The Record of Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor
National Law Journal
- Sotomayor Is No Activist Judge, Says Author
- Critics Pounce on Sotomayor’s Reversal Rate
New York Times
Volokh Conspiracy
- Judge Sonia Sotomayor: What the Data Show
- Judge Sotomayor: More Data, and a New Conclusion
Access to the courts
*Alliance for Justice
- Access to Justice Report on Supreme Court Nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor
Business
*Alliance for Justice
- Business and Consumer Litigation Report on Supreme Court Nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor
Class Action Blawg
Conglomerate Blog
- Sotomayor’s Class Action Jurisprudence
- More on Sotomayor’s Securities Law Record
Ideoblog
- Sotomayor, business and preemption
New York Times
Text and History Blog
- Debunking Conservatives’ Rhetoric That Judge Sotomayor is Hostile to Property Rights: Part I – Bart Didden and Port Chester, New York
- Debunking Conservatives’ Rhetoric That Judge Sotomayor is Hostile to Property Rights: Part II – William Brody and Port Chester, New York
Think Progress
- Where Does Sotomayor Stand on the Commerce Clause?
Volokh Conspiracy
- Business and the Sotomayor Pick
- What the Didden Case Tells Us About Sotomayor’s Attitude Towards Property Rights
Wall Street Journal
- In Business Cases, Portrait of Sotomayor Begins To Emerge
Civil Rights
*Alliance for Justice
- Report on Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s Civil Rights & Constitutional Protections Record
*American Civil Liberties Union
- Report of the ACLU on the Nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, to be Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court
*Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
- Report on the Civil Rights Record of Supreme Court Nomineee Judge Sonia Sotomayor
Volokh Conspiracy
- Judge Sotomayor & Race Cases
Criminal
*Alliance for Justice
- Criminal Justice Report on Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor
Crime and Consequences Blog
Majority Staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee
- Sonia Sotomayor: The Criminal Justice Record
McClatchy
- Sotomayor’s record reveals she’s far from soft on crime
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University
Volokh Conspiracy
- Sotomayor, Santa, and Souter
- Souter, Sotomayor, & Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Disability
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
- Preliminary Review of Disability Cases of Judge Sonia Sotomayor
Elections
Election Law Blog
Environmental
Climate Intel
- Â Souter, Sotomayor and the Future of Climate Change in the Supreme Court
First Amendment
Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty
- A church-state evaluation of the latest nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court
First Amendment Center
- Sotomayor on the First Amendment
- Sotomayor and free expression
- Sotomayor, religious freedom and the great unknown
New York Times
*Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
- A summary of media-related decisions by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor
National Security
CQ Politics
- Sotomayor has Scant Record on National Security
Second Amendment
Blog of the Legal Times
Volokh Conspiracy
- Sonia Sotomayor and the Second Amendment
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