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Pressure Is on Obama to Name First Hispanic Supreme Court Justice
By Tony Mauro
Legal Times
December 1, 2008
Encouraged by President-elect Barack Obama's talk of inclusiveness, and emboldened by the importance of the Hispanic vote to Obama's victory, Hispanic groups are cautiously hopeful that finally the time has come for a Supreme Court justice with a Latino background. Almost every list of possible Obama nominees to the high court includes Hispanic candidates. "What more unifying appointment could there be than a Hispanic justice?" asks Carlos Ortiz, former president of the Hispanic National Bar Association.
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After 'Heller,' Reason Can Prevail
The National Law Journal
September 23, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court's historic Second Amendment decision last term shouldn't necessarily be read as a harbinger of doom by gun-control advocates and as cause for celebration by the National Rifle Association and its allies, professor David M. Kennedy writes. We've been distracted by the dramatic culture war over guns, but after D.C. v. Heller, we can concentrate on taking common-ground steps to prevent the illegal trafficking and diversion of guns to people everybody agrees shouldn't have them.
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