Posted by Randy Barnett:
Witness List for Sotomayor Hearing Released:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_07_05-2009_07_11.shtml#1247168261
The [1]New York Times reports that the witness lists for the Democrats
and Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have been released
and they include 2 VC bloggers. (H/T Josh Blackman via FB).
For the Democrats:
Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York; Chuck Canterbury, president of
the Fraternal Order of Police; David Cone, former Major League
Baseball pitcher; JoAnne A. Epps, dean of Temple University Beasley
School of Law, on behalf of the National Association of Women
Lawyers; Louis Freeh, former director of the F.B.I.; Michael J.
Garcia, a former United States attorney in New York; Wade
Henderson, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights;
Patricia Hynes, president of the New York City Bar Association;
Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel; District Attorney Robert
Morgenthau of Manhattan and Ms. Sotomayor�s former boss; Ramona
Romero, president of the Hispanic National Bar Association;
Representative Jose E. Serrano of New York; Theodore M. Shaw,
professor at Columbia Law School; Kate Stith, professor at Yale Law
School, and Representative Nydia Velázquez of New York, chairwoman
of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
For the Republicans:
Linda Chavez, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity; Sandy
Froman, the former president of the National Rifle Association; Dr.
Stephen Halbrook, lawyer and gun-rights advocate; Tim Jeffries,
founder of P7 Enterprises, a management consulting firm; Peter
Kirsanow, a commissioner on the federal Commission on Civil Rights;
David Kopel, a lawyer with the Independence Institute; John
McGinnis, professor at Northwestern University Law School; Neomi
Rao, professor of George Mason University School of Law; Frank
Ricci, director of Fire Services in New Haven and the plaintiff
whose discrimination case was decided in his favor by the Supreme
Court; David Rivkin, a former associate White House counsel in the
Bush-Quayle administration and now a partner at Baker, Hostetler
law firm; Nick Rosenkranz, professor at Georgetown University
School of Law, Ilya Somin, professor at George Mason University
School of Law; Lieutenant Ben Vargas, New Haven Fire Department;
Dr. Charmaine Yoest, Americans United for Life.
References
1.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/judiciary-panel-releases-witness-list-for-sotomayor-hearing/
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