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News Source: Uinta County News
| 6 months ago
It is as close to certain as anything gets in Washington that Judge Sonia Sotomayor is on her way to the Supreme Court...President Obama's choice to succeed retiring Justice David Souter has everything going for her. The Senate has already confirmed...
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News Source: National Public Radio
| 6 months ago
Morning Edition , May 28, 2009 · Even before the inauguration, President Obama had put together a list of potential nominees for the Supreme Court. He and his staff thought they would have months in office before they would have to focus on it. They...
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News Source: Los Angeles Times
| 6 months ago
In 2002, Sotomayor rejected a challenge to President George W. Bush's so-called Mexico City policy, which required foreign groups receiving U.S. funds to pledge that they would not support or promote abortion. Sotomayor spoke for a three-judge panel...
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News Source: The Hutchinson News
| 6 months ago
Kansas' two Republican senators are expressing reservations about U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, and two Senate candidates joined them Wednesday. Both Pat Roberts and Sam Brownback pointed to a statement Sotomayor, a federal appeals...
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News Source: The Boston Globe
| 6 months ago
President Obama nominated federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court yesterday, selecting a woman who is a product of both New York City public housing and Ivy League universities, and who would become the first Hispanic and third female...
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News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
| 6 months ago
Judge Sonia Sotomayor can be blunt, aggressive and impatient. So get ready for another public debate, and probably some insinuations, about her judicial temperament. Twenty-two years ago, Robert Bork's Supreme Court nomination foundered in part over...
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News Source: The Daily Star
| 6 months ago
President Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court on Tuesday, selecting a woman who would be the court's first Hispanic justice and a liberal who is unlikely to change its ideological balance. Sotomayor, 54, is a US appeals...
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News Source: The Pheonix
| 6 months ago
There is a pleasing symmetry to President Obama's nomination of federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court. The first African-American president has appointed the first Hispanic justice, who, if confirmed, would...
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News Source: CNN
| 6 months ago
If there had been a secret-ballot vote among appellate lawyers who argue business cases, it is most unlikely that Judge Sonia Sotomayor would have been selected as the one to replace Justice David Souter on the U.S...Some such advocates have...
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News Source: Sacramento Bee
| 6 months ago
The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday he doesn't foresee a filibuster against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, even though GOP lawmakers want to closely scrutinize her legal philosophy. "The nominee has serious...