{"id":455,"date":"2009-09-03T11:21:45","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T15:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=455"},"modified":"2009-09-03T11:26:05","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T15:26:05","slug":"whats-ahead-for-sotomayor-on-the-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/455\/whats-ahead-for-sotomayor-on-the-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Ahead for Sotomayor on the Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next week, the U.S. Supreme Court will rehear arguments in <em>Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission<\/em>, a case that could reverse certain\u00a0limitations on\u00a0core political speech\u00a0imposed by the the 2002 McCain-Feingold law and other chilling precedents.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/article.php?id=33382\" target=\"_blank\">op-ed<\/a> published today on <em>Human Events <\/em>Online, CFIF director of public policy Sam Batkins writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Citizens United <\/em>is the first of three cases in which interested court-watchers will have their first opportunity to observe [newly confirmed] Justice Sotomayor and get a better idea of her impact on the jurisprudential leaning of the Court.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition to <em>Citizens United<\/em>, the Court,\u00a0including Justice Sotomayor,\u00a0is scheduled to hear other high-profile cases after its term formally begins in October on issues dealing with the Establishment Clause and property rights, among others.<\/p>\n<p>As Batkins notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many court-watchers and scholars have reviewed Justice Sotomayor\u2019s lengthy record as a lower court judge without really being able to predict her judicial philosophy on many of the hot-button issues before the Supreme Court. Soon, however, we\u2019ll all be provided more clarity, at least on issues dealing with property rights, the establishment clause and political speech.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the the entire op-ed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/article.php?id=33382\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next week, the U.S. Supreme Court will rehear arguments in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission, a case that could reverse certain\u00a0limitations on\u00a0core political speech\u00a0imposed by the the 2002 McCain-Feingold law and other chilling precedents. In an op-ed published today on Human Events Online, CFIF director of public policy Sam Batkins writes: Citizens United is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[94,93,92],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-citizens-united-v-fec","tag-sotomayor","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}