As the Sotomayor hearings begin, this report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) may be of interest. It may not be objective though, at least according to some people.
Ed Whelan at the National Review Online has criticized CRS and its report. Wendy Long (at NRO) also has criticized the report arguing that the report:
“is anything but ‘objective and non-partisan.’ It reads like the anonymous memo put out on Capitol Hill by the White House Counsel’s office labeling Sotomayor a ‘nonideological and restrained jurist.’ (Hmm . . . maybe that’s the source of the CRS research.)”
“CRS is one-upping the White House doubletalk about Judge Sotomayor that is intended to obscure the liberal judicial activist, and frankly, the sub-par judge that she really is.”
