Interest Groups Prepare to Battle on Sotomayor

New York Times by David Kirkpatrick | May. 27, 2009 (News Analysis)

(Blog Post) A Supreme Court nomination, and the interest-group battle begins.

The left was quiet Tuesday. Aside from commending the president’s pick of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, most liberal groups kept their comments to a minimum so that she could hold the spotlight. But privately several acknowledged that they begin this debate with far fewer resources than they could marshal during the Bush administration. Democratic dominance of the White House and ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Fabrice Florin - May 27, 2009 - 9:42 AM PDT
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 by Fabrice Florin - May. 27, 2009

Factual and timely update on how political interest groups on both sides of the political spectrum are lining up for a fight about President Obama’s pick of Judge Sonia Sotomayor. This short blog post presents reasonable evidence on how liberals and conservative groups are responding to the news, citing multiple sources and providing useful context about what the fight is really about.

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 by Vincent Caminiti - May. 27, 2009

This article suffers from identity crisis - perhaps even identity theft. The title talks states Interest Groups as it's firs two words - yet it only identifies the interest groups by name and not their interest, in particular. For instance - Jonathan Turley is quoted - but what is his interest group? Perhaps the article suffered terrible editing -but I fear it just didn't know what it was - albeit a mildly informative list.

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 by Glenn LaBauve - May. 28, 2009

The sides are not hiding there intent, but this article does show they are hiding their true alignment.

The majority of attacks and criticism I have seen of the judge come not from the left or center, but from the cons and ultra cons pretending to be ... More »

Several conservatives were already demonstrating a tactic they plan to continue: quoting criticisms of Judge Sotomayor’s temperament from commentators they call liberal More »

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 by Gian Antelles - May. 28, 2009

This is going to be so very interesting to watch, track.

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