Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 53 Judge Alito 53 Judge Sonia Sotomayor 51 Judge Sotomayor 50 Samuel Alito 50 Elena Kagan 50 Sonia Sotomayor 50 Sotomayor 48 judicial nominees 48 Alito 47 Judge Samuel Alito 47 Janice Rogers 46 judicial nominations 45 Miguel Estrada 45 Chemerinsky 45 SCOTUS 45 judicial appointments 44 Robert Bork 44 Alito nomination 44 Clarence Thomas 44 Kagan 42 confirmation hearings 42 Antonin Scalia 42 Harvard Law 41 nominee Samuel Alito 41 Justice Sonia Sotomayor 41 Partial Birth Abortion Ban 41 William Rehnquist 41 cloture vote 40 Mukasey 40 Rehnquist 40 David Souter 40 Harriet Miers 40 Ruth Bader Ginsburg 40 Sotomayor nomination 40 judgeships 40 Ms. Miers 40 Sandra Day 40 Justice Samuel Alito 40 Jonathan Turley 40 nominee 39 Justice William Rehnquist 39 nominees 39 Janet Yellen 39 Justice Elena Kagan 39 Justice Rehnquist 39 Solicitor General Elena Kagan 39 Miers nomination 39 overturn Roe v. Wade 39 torture memos 38 9th Circuit Court 38 Bernanke 38 filibustered 38 filibusters 38 nominee Sonia Sotomayor 38 eminently qualified 38 filibuster 38 filibustering 38 jurist 38 William H. Rehnquist 37 Ben Bernanke 37 Sen. Barbara Boxer 37 nominee Elena Kagan 37 Ninth Circuit Court 37 Sen. Dianne Feinstein 37 Supreme Court justices 37 progressives 36 Glenn Greenwald 36 9th Circuit 36 Senate Judiciary Committee 36 Harry Reid 36 liberals 36 appellate judges 36 Ginsburg 36 Lawrence Summers 36 Justice Sandra 36 Senator Dianne Feinstein 36 Mankiw 36 Bork 36 Justice Scalia 36 renominated 36 Solomon Amendment 36 Souter 36 Thurgood Marshall 36 liberal 36 justices 35 Larry Summers 35 Scalia 35 Ninth Circuit 35 Justice Thurgood Marshall 35 affirmative action 35 Michael Mukasey 35 Chairman Ben Bernanke 35 UC Berkeley 35 Donald Berwick 35 racial preferences 35 Newdow 35 DREAM Act 35 judicial activism 35 Justice Antonin Scalia 35 Michael Newdow 35 Christina Romer