Despite staunch opposition from Republicans, the U.S. Senate confirmed President Obama’s nomination of an openly gay Cornell alumna, Alison Nathan ’94, J.D. ’00, to become a federal judge last Thursday.

By Greg Demers

As independent voters ready themselves for tomorrow’s election, they will inevitably flock to the websites of Barack Obama and John McCain to pin down the differences between the candidates and, hopefully, help solidify their decisions. While the vast majority of topics on these sites overlap, there is one issue that is strikingly absent from Barack Obama’s website: judicial philosophy.