Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 59 Clarence Thomas 54 Justice Clarence 45 Alito 45 Rehnquist 44 confirmation hearings 43 David Souter 42 Justice Antonin Scalia 41 Judge Sonia Sotomayor 41 Justice Sonia Sotomayor 40 nominee Elena Kagan 40 Justice Samuel Alito 40 Sonia Sotomayor 39 nominee Samuel Alito 39 Sotomayor 39 Justice Thurgood Marshall 39 Robert Bork 39 Senate Judiciary Committee 39 Judge Alito 39 Kagan 39 Miguel Estrada 39 Judge Sotomayor 39 Scalia 39 nominee Sonia Sotomayor 38 Spellings 38 Justice Scalia 37 judicial nominations 37 Browne Sanders 37 David H. Souter 37 William H. Rehnquist 37 Marbury 36 Justice Stephen Breyer 36 judicial nominees 36 Ms. Miers 36 Justice William Rehnquist 36 Judiciary Committee 36 Emmett Till 36 Samuel Alito 36 dissenting opinion 36 Elena Kagan 35 dissents 35 Blackmun 35 Miers 34 Thomas Sowell 34 Shirley Sherrod 34 racial injustice 34 Sherrod 34 Frederick Douglass 34 Sen. Patrick Leahy 34 racial prejudice 34 Antonin Scalia 34 Civil Rights Act 34 guard Stephon Marbury 34 Federalist Society 34 Stephen Breyer 34 solicitor general 34 Negroes 33 affirmative action 33 Stephon Marbury 33 desegregation 33 Harriet Miers 33 Souter 33 civil rights 33 Ruth Bader Ginsburg 32 Thurgood Marshall 32 Sen. Al Franken 32 Janice Rogers 32 Cosby 32 Ginsburg 32 Civil Rights Division 32 Jim Crow 32 Nordegren 32 Capitol Hill 32 Monica Lewinsky 32 Plame identity 32 Alberto Gonzales 32 firings 32 blacks 32 Harvard Law 31 racial equality 31 Senate Judiciary 31 Knicks 31 Clyburn 31 memos 31 Plame 31 recess appointment 31 minorities 31 Goodling 31 Justice 31 Valerie Plame 31 Conyers 31 filibustered 31 Eddy Curry 31 recess appointments 31 judgeships 30 Dershowitz 30 Latrell Sprewell 30 racial preferences 30 Pikoli 30 Nardelli 30 District Judge Emmet 30 Professional Responsibility