In his weekly radio address Saturday, President Bush called on Senate Democrats to "stop playing politics, and permit a vote on Miguel Estrada's nomination." Hear the address here. Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Democrat Senator Patrick Leahy issued this response.... University of Chicago Law School professor Cass Sunstein outlines The Right Wing Assault on the federal judiciary in the forthcoming issue of The American Prospect (link courtesy Sam Heldman).... Law student blogger Christine Niles is reporting from the Federalist Society's National Student Symposium on Law and Human Dignity at Notre Dame Law School.... An invitation to US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to speak at this year's graduation ceremony at the University of Georgia School of Law has prompted a protest letter (full text posted by Howard Bashman) from UGA law professor Donald Wilkes.... Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Lewis spoke Wednesday at William & Mary School of Law on governmental infringements of civil liberties.... Judge Roger Gregory of the US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals spoke recently on The Legal Status of African-Americans from Slavery to the 21st Century and Beyond at the University of Virginia School of Law....

On February 22, 1965, US Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter died in Washington, DC. Learn more about Felix Frankfurter from the Oyez Supreme Court multimedia project at Northwestern University.