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Week In Review: Who’s On The Rise, Who’s Falling Down Edition (June 21 – June 27)
Monday, 28 June 2010
by Spencer Gaffney
Top of the agenda this past week: Gen. David Petraeus *85 *87 is tapped to replace Gen. McChrystal as the Commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan. Which got us to thinking – what other Tigers found themselves on the rise this week? And, since we believe in a strictly zero-sum world, which Princetonians have seen
- Published in Week in Review
Tagged under:
Ben Huh, Bob Bradley, David Petraeus, Elena Kagan, Ellie Kemper, Failblog, Heidi Miller, Jamie Dimon, Jerry Brown, Meg Whitman, Petraeus, soccer, Sonia Sotomayor, WASPs, World Cup
IN PRINT: Dorm Rooms of the Stars
Thursday, 27 May 2010
by David Walter
Just in time for Reunions, a heaping dose of Princetoniana in the New York Times. Ever wonder where Elena Kagan lived while she was a Tiger? Sonia Sotomayor? Bill Bradley? The University doesn’t publicize any of that information, but it’s available in the school’s archives. Not all famous rooms have lasted into the 21st century,
Tagged under:
Bill Bradley, Brown Hall, Donald Rumsfeld, Dorm Rooms, Elena Kagan, Jimmy Stewart, John F. Kennedy, New York Times, Princetoniana, Sonia Sotomayor
It’s official: Kagan ’81 makes it three in a row
Sunday, 09 May 2010
by Brian No
All of us are in a state of despair, with Dean’s Date looming over us, but let’s just take a quick moment to engage in some “school spirit” (I hear it’s a real thing): President Obama will nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan ’81 to the Supreme Court, NBC’s Pete Williams is reporting tonight. And the
- Published in Alumni, Politics, Princeton in the News
So you want to be a Supreme Court justice (PART 2)
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
by Brian No
Earlier this week, we gave you some helpful advice on what not to do if you plan on becoming a Supreme Court justice. But what sorts of things should you do as a Princeton student if you want a lifetime appointment to the nation’s high court? An exhaustive (i.e. cursory, superficial, dumb) examination of the Princeton careers of
- Published in Alumni, Musings, Politics, Princeton in the News
So you want to be a Supreme Court justice…
Monday, 26 April 2010
by Brian No
[from left to right: Kagan ’81, Sotomayor ’76, Alito ’72, and Obama ’85] Do you plan on becoming a Supreme Court justice? Do you plan on becoming famous? If so, do yourself a favor: Write your thesis on the most mundane, non-controversial topic possible. Specifically, don’t write about: Scary foreign lands (i.e. Puerto Rico) Last
- Published in Alumni, Open Letter, Politics
Tagged under:
Elena Kagan, First Lady, Michelle Obama, Senior Thesis, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Nominee
Alito ’72 & Sotomayor ’76 attend SOTU; Alito not an Obama fan
Thursday, 28 January 2010
by Brian No
If you were watching last night’s State of the Union address, you might have observed six of the nine Supreme Court justices in attendance, sitting directly in front of President Obama. Justices Samuel Alito ’72 and Sonia Sotomayor ’76 were sitting next to each other, which we thought was cute. Perhaps, we daydreamed, they’re good
Tagged under:
Barack Obama, CAP, Concerned Alumni of Princeton, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, State of the Union, Supreme Court
IN PRINT: Sotomayor’s Confirmation Hearings Pretty Lame
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
by Brian No
Last month, an all-star panel of Supreme Court journalists criticized Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor ’76’s confirmation hearings that took place over the summer: Sotomayor — now Associate Justice Sotomayor — “was asked what her judicial philosophy was and she said, ‘I follow the law,’” CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin told a packed Dodds Auditorium in
Say it ain’t so, Sonia!
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
by Brian No
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor ’76 attended her 30th reunion at Yale Law School over the weekend. She gave a talk about her experience there, but there was one thing that jumped out at us from the Yale Daily News article on the event: Of her education, Sotomayor said “learning was fun at Yale” —
- Published in Alumni
Sotomayor ’76 officially wise Latina justice
Wednesday, 09 September 2009
by Brian No
Justice Sonia Sotomayor ’76–who has already been confirmed and sworn in–was made even more Justice-y yesterday at her investiture, when she was officially seated on the bench. Everyone was there–Obama, Biden, and even Ricky Martin! Sotomayor hears her first oral arguments today in the case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Representing the federal government,
- Published in Alumni, Politics, Princeton in the News
Week in Review: August 3 – August 9
Monday, 10 August 2009
by Spencer Gaffney
August is upon us! Ah, the Sunday of the summer months, freedom mixed with the creeping inevitability of the school year. Personally, we’re with Dave Plotz and his zany plan to rid the world of this month once and for all! But August or not, we’re still here at The Ink summer news desk, wading
- Published in Goings On, Week in Review
Tagged under:
Andrew Sullivan, Forbes, Fusion, Harvard, Harvard Yard, PPPL, Robert George, Sonia Sotomayor, Steve Forbes, US News and World Report, Wall Street Journal, West Point
Sotomayor ’76 Becomes First Hispanic, 11th Princetonian Justice on Supreme Court
Thursday, 06 August 2009
by Brian No
The United States Senate, by a vote of 68 to 31, confirmed Sonia Sotomayor ’76 as the nation’s first Hispanic Supreme Court justice this afternoon. She joins fellow Princetonian Justice Samuel Alito ’72 on the high court, who was confirmed in 2006 by a vote of 58 to 42. The confirmation vote was largely along
- Published in Alumni, Politics, Princeton in the News
IN PRINT: Sotomayor’s Princeton Awakening
Friday, 31 July 2009
by Brian No
Bet you can’t get enough of Sotomayor coverage. I mean, did you know that she went to Princeton?!?! How cool is that?!?! Here’s a piece in the National Journal‘s The Ninth Justice blog on her time at Old Nassau, just in case you’re interested. An excerpt: The sense of otherness had a profound impact on Sotomayor.
- Published in Alumni, In Print, Politics, Princeton in the News
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