A baseball player will make a pitch for Sonia Sotomayor during the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing that began today.

For Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s nominee to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court, the turning point may have come when she had lunch with Jose A. Cabranes in 1976.

Should Sonia Sotomayor be confirmed as a Supreme Court justice, six of the nine members of the court will be Roman Catholic.

As soon as word leaked out Tuesday that Sonia Sotomayor would be President Barack Obama’s pick for the U.S. Supreme Court, opposition voices spoke out.

With Justice David H. Souter leaving, will Sonia Sotomayor finally make it to the U.S. Supreme Court?

The perks of being a federal judge just got fewer.

Membership in the Federalist Society, a group for conservative or libertarian law students and lawyers, has recently helped open doors to jobs in the federal government, especially the judiciary.

But given the Democratic Congress and other factors, Federalist Society membership, or even past Federalist Society membership, may not be the plus it was.

At least that’s what Rachel K. Paulose has alleged.