BU Now » Senate Judiciary Committee http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow News, information and research from Boston University Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:14:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Sotomayor closer to SCOTUS http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2009/07/28/sotomayor-closer-to-scotus/ http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2009/07/28/sotomayor-closer-to-scotus/#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:40:08 +0000 Dick Taffe http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/?p=2524 On a 13-6 vote, with only one Republican siding with her, Sonia Sotomayor has been endorsed by the Senate Judiciary Committee to become an associate justice of the Supreme Court.  Full Senate debate on the nomination is expected next week.  School of Law Professor Jay Wexler, who clerked for the current court’s only female justice, can discuss Sotomayor’s likely impact on the SCOTUS.

Contact Jay Wexler, 617-353-3174, jaywex@bu.edu

]]> http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2009/07/28/sotomayor-closer-to-scotus/feed/ 0 Sotomayor’s Senate Hearing http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2009/07/13/sotomayors-senate-hearing/ http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2009/07/13/sotomayors-senate-hearing/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:45:17 +0000 Dick Taffe http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/?p=2233 Washington eyes are on Sonia Sotomayor as she appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee considering her nomination to the Supreme Court.  School of Law Professors Jack Beermann, a SCOTUS authority, and Jay Wexler, who clerked for Ruth Bader Ginsberg, can offer perspective on the hearings and the court’s future.

Contact Jack Beermann, 617-353-2577, beermann@bu.edu; Jay Wexler, 617-353-2789, jaywex@bu.edu

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