Free Republic

Fewer than 6 percent of the cases decided by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals come from Connecticut. Still, people and issues from Connecticut are likely to be highly important in the upcoming confirmation hearings of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, a 2nd Circuit judge for the past 12 years. Former Yale Law School Dean Guido Calabresi is a colleague of Sotomayor's on the appellate court. He first met her at Yale, when he was a professor and she was a student, and was impressed with her legal talents and personal attributes. Although Sotomayor is known for writing...