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U.S. Supreme Court,
Letters

May 21, 2010

Letters To The Editor

Hirbod Rashidi

Riverside County Department of Child Support Services

2041 Iowa Ave
Riverside , CA 92507-2414

Phone: (951) 955-4236

Email: hirbodrashidi@hotmail.com

Southwestern Univ School of Law

Hirbod Rashidi practices, teaches and writes about law in Southern California

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR COLUMN

Erwin Chemrinsky - legal scholar turned liberal talking head - again is trying to use his soapbox to mislead and re-write history. In his most recent opinion piece ("Kagan Commentary Misses the Point," May 19), he writes, "[t]here is almost no history of filibusters against Supreme Court nominees. Forty-eight Democrats voted against Clarence Thomas and 42 against Samuel Alito Jr., but these are not filibusters." What he ...

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