Is Second Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor particularly annoying at oral argument?
Law professor Jeffrey Rosen suggests the answer may be “yes” in this essay posted online today at The New Republic. You can hear her in action at oral argument via C-SPAN by clicking here. My recollection is that at some point during this en banc oral argument, at least one and perhaps several of Judge Sotomayor’s colleagues seem to lose patience with her questioning and interruptions of their lines of questioning, although the amount of aggravation that Judge Sotomayor was causing was probably increased by the fact that she was participating in the oral argument from a remote location via videoconference. At the “Concurring Opinions” blog, Gerard Magliocca has a post titled “The Case for Sotomayor” responding to Rosen’s essay.
