Presumptive Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's economic record is "lost in a cloud of political rhetoric," as Nouriel Roubini's RGE Monitor rightly notes. The RGE points to scotusblog as a good source of background material on the 2nd Circuit judge. Which, as usual, it is. Her record is parsed in detail there.

More reaction to this historic Supreme Court brown decision is collected at BLT, the Legal Times blog, where the "tort reformers" are concerned, naturally.

Supporters of Sotomayor's nomination should hope that the attacks on her stay at the juvenile (and absurd) level of "she's not smart enough" and "just another example of affirmative action run amok." Otherwise, her voluminous record as a federal judge will become the focus. And business groups could actually get some meat on the bone there, although she doesn't seem, at first glance, to be much of a knee-jerk anti-corporate type, if she is one at all.

Even if she does have somewhat of a populist bent, that would just add balance to a court run by John Roberts, who definitely favors the rights of corporate citizens over those of human ones ("Supreme Insult," July 20, 2005).