
As the Senate Judiciary Committee begins confirmation hearings today on Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s first Supreme Court nominee, almost all of the dozen Democrats and seven Republicans who sit on the Senate’s judiciary panel share one thing in common: large sums of campaign cash received from the very lawyers and law firms whose work is so shaped by the high court’s decisions. Read more
When word leaked Thursday night that Supreme Court Justice David Souter is planning to retire after this court term ends, it took about 30 seconds for every major news outlet and political pundit to put together a list of who President Obama might nominate to replace Souter. Naturally, we were curious as to the political contribution histories of some of the top prospects, so we ran their names through the subscription-only CQMoneyLine donor database to see what came out. Read more

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