Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 55 Dawn Johnsen 55 Supreme Court Nominee 55 Elena Kagan 52 Sonia Sotomayor 52 Judge Robert Bork 52 Judge Sotomayor 52 Judge Sonia Sotomayor 51 Solicitor General Kagan 51 Sotomayor 51 Solicitor General Elena Kagan 51 Samuel Alito 51 nominee 51 Kagan 50 Clarence Thomas 50 Merrick Garland 49 Judge Alito 49 SCOTUS 49 David Souter 48 Priscilla Owen 48 Ruth Bader Ginsburg 48 Ms. Miers 48 Stephen Breyer 48 Totenberg 48 Harriet Miers nomination 48 conservative jurist 48 Harriet Miers 48 Alito 47 Antonin Scalia 47 Judge Samuel Alito 47 Goodwin Liu 47 strict constructionists 46 Justice Sonia Sotomayor 46 Harold Koh 46 Miers 45 nominee Samuel Alito 45 Laurence Tribe 45 Stephen G. Breyer 45 nominee Elena Kagan 44 Brett Kavanaugh 44 Supreme Court 44 Michael Luttig 44 Justice Elena Kagan 44 Nominee 43 solicitor general 43 Justice Antonin Scalia 43 Dahlia Lithwick 43 Luttig 43 Miguel Estrada 43 Nina Totenberg 43 nominee Sonia Sotomayor 43 Robert Bork 43 Bork 43 conservative jurists 42 Nan Aron 42 Justices Scalia 42 strict constructionist 42 Supreme Court justices 42 Justices Clarence 42 Russ Feingold D Wis 42 nominees 42 Justice Breyer 42 Alito nomination 42 Supreme Court Justices 42 justices 41 Justice Samuel Alito 41 Bader Ginsburg 41 Janice Rogers 41 Peter Keisler 41 confirmation hearings 41 Scalia 41 judges 41 Souter 41 Jeff Sessions R-Ala. 41 Beinisch 41 Confirmation hearings 41 judicial nominees 41 Verrilli 40 H. Bork 40 Mary Ann Glendon 40 Justice Stephen Breyer 40 Mikva 40 Counsel Alberto Gonzales 40 judicial temperament 40 Linda Greenhouse 40 Sandra Day 40 Justice Scalia 40 nominee Harriet Miers 40 Aharon Barak 40 J. Harvie Wilkinson 40 Breyer 40 Neal Katyal 40 judicial activism 40 Justices Stephen Breyer 39 Roberts 39 Jamie Dupree 39 Solicitor General 39 David H. Souter 39 Nan Aron president 39 wing ideologue 39 John Cornyn 39 Nathan Hecht