Reflections on the Sotomayor Nomination

Pittsburgh Lawyers Chapter

Speaker:

• Ed Whelan, President, Ethics and Public Policy Center

Speaker:

• Ed Whelan, President, Ethics and Public Policy Center

Mere months after taking office, President Obama was presented with his first opportunity to fill a Supreme Court vacancy. What kind of Supreme court justice would Sonia Sotomayor be, and how would she affect the Court? What does President Obama's selection of Judge Sotomayor signal for any further vacancies he may be able to fill? And what lessons over the broader question of the role of the courts should be drawn from her confirmation process? Ed Whelan, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a regular contributor to
National Review Online's Bench Memos blog on judicial confirmations and constitutional law, will address these and related questions. He was a leading commentator on the nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court.

Mr. Whelan directs EPPC's program on The Constitution, the Courts, and the Culture. In addition to his work at EPPC, Mr. Whelan has served in positions of responsibility in all three branches of the federal government, including as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and as a senior staffer to the Senate Judiciary Committee during the confirmation hearings for Justices Ginsburg and Breyer.

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