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12:09

Fred Barbash-Moderator - Good afternoon everyone. Thanks for participating.

Today's topic is the Ricci decision, issued this morning by the Supreme Court, and it's impact on the Sotomayor nomination. We'll have four distinguished guests and let them chat, so we will take reader comments only at the end this time.

12:16

Fred Barbash-Moderator - Our guests today are Arena contributors:

Walter Dellinger, former U.S. Solicitor General, a professor of law and an eminent practitioner

Sherrilyn Ifill, professor of law at the University of Maryland and former assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund

Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs at the Cato Institute and founder and president of Cato's Center for Constitutional Studies

Mark Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and author of the most widely used casebook on Constitutional Law.

12:20

Fred Barbash-Moderator - For POLITICO's story on the decision, click here:

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