As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama let us know who he would be selecting as judicial nominees.

Here's more video from Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Couric — in which Couric asks her to name Supreme Court decisions she disagrees with and she lapses into confounded silence after naming only one, Roe v. Wade.

Thanks to a ruling this week by a trio of judges put on the federal bench by President George W. Bush, New York State's efforts to give a modicum of human dignity to airline passengers stuck on planes for hours on the ground may now be for naught.