The Roberts Court: The Struggle For The Constitution - Plot & Excerpts
—Senator John McCain on Citizens United v. FEC, 2012 Race, guns, and money dominated Supreme Court news over the summer, not in cases being argued and decided, but under the glare of television cameras in a large, crowded hearing room where one of the fundamental exercises under the Constitution was about to unfold. On July 13, 2009, about a block away from the Court, the Senate Judiciary Committee opened hearings on the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to succeed Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court. She was no “stealth” nominee in the sense that Souter was when he was nominated. She had the proverbial paper trail, having spent eleven years as an appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and before that, six years as a trial judge. Although confirmation hearings in the last two decades had taken on the air of gladiatorial encounters, with special interest groups battling each other more than a contest between the actual nominee and the senators, there was very little for Republicans to use against Sotomayor.
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