Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 66 Judge Alito 64 Alito 61 Samuel Alito 58 Sonia Sotomayor 58 Judge Sotomayor 57 judicial nominees 57 Sotomayor 57 Elena Kagan 55 Judge Sonia Sotomayor 55 jurist 54 Ms. Miers 54 Rehnquist 54 Antonin Scalia 54 Kagan 52 David Souter 52 SCOTUS 52 Robert Bork 51 Mukasey 51 nominee Sonia Sotomayor 50 Janice Rogers 50 judicial nominations 50 Ruth Bader Ginsburg 50 Justice Sonia Sotomayor 49 Miers 49 justices 49 judicial activism 49 Supreme Court justices 48 William H. Rehnquist 48 Harriet Miers 48 conservatives 48 nominee 47 Souter 47 Justice William Rehnquist 47 confirmation hearings 47 Solicitor General Elena Kagan 47 Clarence Thomas 47 jurists 47 nominee Elena Kagan 46 Miguel Estrada 46 liberal 45 liberals 45 Scalia 45 Justice Scalia 45 Justice Sandra 45 Sandra Day 45 Michael Mukasey 45 judicial appointments 44 Specter 44 centrists 44 filibuster 44 dissents 43 Senate Judiciary Committee 43 ideologue 43 Justice Samuel Alito 43 judgeships 42 Roe v. Wade 42 appellate judges 42 centrist 42 doctrinaire 42 Stephen Breyer 41 Southerner 41 Republicans 41 appointees 41 David H. Souter 41 Federalist Society 41 solicitor general 41 Bork 41 pragmatist 41 secularist 40 judgeship 40 jurisprudence 40 Arlen Specter 40 libertarian 40 filibusters 40 renominated 40 Democrats 40 conservatism 40 appointee 40 secularists 40 Justice Ruth Bader 40 Justice Antonin Scalia 39 progressives 39 recess appointments 39 liberalism 39 Justices 39 Ginsburg 39 Judiciary Committee 39 appellate courts 39 nominees 39 Sunstein 38 counsel Harriet Miers 38 Breyer 38 appellate 38 Bernanke 38 recess appointment 38 senators 38 Harvard Law 38 Cornyn 38 electable 38 conservative 38 GOPers