Sonia Sotomayor

The position of chair of the Council of Economic Advisers is open. How President Barack Obama fills it can tell us whether he's finally gone wobbly on Obamanomics -- maybe in time to arrest some of the damage. Would President Obama, to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, ponder whether to nominate liberal Ruth Bader Ginsburg or conservative Antonin Scalia?  

I got into this race because I'm just worried sick about what they're doing in Washington. It's true Arlen Specter was very much a part of what was wrong but Joe Sestak will be even worse. And what I want to do is restore economic growth in the private sector and fiscal discipline and bring some balance to Washington.  

Recently, the spotlight was on new Supreme Court Justice Ma. Lourdes Aranal Sereno, who was appointed by President Aquino from among the 28 nominees of the Judicial and Bar Council. In fact, she was not on the initial list and even in the second batch; she was No. 6 which was at the bottom of the list. But P-Noy chose her because of her track record – unquestionable integrity, probity, independence, and competence.  

Now that Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan has taken her oath and begins preparing for the start of the next term of the court, it's good to look back on the process that put her there. It needs to be restored to the way it used to be. Kagan won confirmation with a 63-37 vote in the U.S. Senate.  

The achievement gap in public schools is growing. Wind towers are coming to New York harbor. No-fault divorce is now law.  

Republican Senate candidate Kelly Ayotte is not looking to change the Constitution's 14th Amendment, which guarantees citizenship to anyone born in the U.S. But she will not rule it out, either. The question was raised at a campaign event where Ayotte was asked about the effect illegal immigrants have on the health care system. In an interview with the Monitor editorial board last week, Ayotte said she would first address illegal immigration by securing the country's borders, enforcing existing immigration laws and making English the official language of the U.S.  

Turns out they have more in common than just the block. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told a packed Bronx theater Saturday that she and singer Jennifer Lopez could share the moniker J.Lo. "I'm the justice of law and order from the Bronx," the borough's other favorite daughter joked with a few hundred people at Lehman College . Sotomayor, confirmed earlier this month as the court's first Hispanic justice, was there to address children who were part of the Dream Big Initiative, a Bronx Children's Museum program based on her success.  

The Post should recognize philosophical reality and refer to the "moderate" and "conservative" wings of the court, although "moderate" and "radical-conservative" would be more accurate. McNeil's ridiculous contention that Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer and John Paul Stevens are not liberal, headlined online "There are no 'liberals' on the Supreme Court" and in the real newspaper with the blander "Mislabeling the high court," appeared on the "Free for All" page – an extra ...  

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan took little time to staff up last week, hiring her four law clerks -- two male, two female -- by her second workday in office. Three hailed from Harvard -- no surprise for the former Harvard Law School dean -- and the fourth, Justice Anthony Kennedy clerk Allon Kedem, is from Yale. So much for law school diversity. Perhaps the best known of the four is Andrew Crespo, who clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer and was the first-ever Hispanic editor of Harvard Law Review .  

Elena Kagan, no surprise, did not live up to the Kagan standard of openness in answering questions during her confirmation hearing. Mitch McConnell did not live up to the McConnell standard of deference in voting against her. The McConnell standard?