How Sotomayor’s Incisive Questioning on Executive Power Became Sotomayor’s ‘Blunt and Testy’ Style

When I watched Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s questioning of the government’s lawyer in the extraordinary rendition case of Arar v. Ashcroft in December, which I wrote about in detail Wednesday, I was struck by Sotomayor’s immediate grasp of the troubling implications of the government’s position.

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