Opening Arguments Archive: Topics: Individual Rights

Key Excerpt: Feingold and Sotomayor on Individual Rights and Liberties After 9/11

CQ Transcriptions FEINGOLD: Let me get into a topic that I discussed at length with -- with two most recent Supreme Court nominees, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito, and that's the issue of executive power. In 2003, you spoke...

Key Excerpt: Grassley Questions Sotomayor on Property Rights

CQ Transcriptions GRASSLEY: Could you explain what your understanding is of the state of the Fifth Amendment's taking cause jurisprudence after the Supreme Court decision in Kelo? Senator Brownback said this aptly when Chief Justice Roberts was before this committee:...