Voice of America
President Barack Obama has picked a female, Hispanic federal appeals court judge to replace a retiring Supreme Court justice. Mr. Obama is expected to announce the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor Tuesday at the White House. If confirmed by the Senate,...
The Tribune
Several officials say President Barack Obama has settled on his pick for the Supreme Court and intends to make a midmorning announcement. Obama is widely expected to name a woman to replace retiring Justice David Souter, and perhaps a Hispanic.
Uinta County News
The US president and his advisers have spent the past month drawing up a shortlist for the job since Justice David Souter announced his retirement on May 1.
International Business Times
Obama's choice of the liberal Sotomayor, a 54-year-old judge on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, was unlikely to change the ideological balance of the high court because Souter, 69, was part of the panel's liberal wing. The court,...
Novinite
World May 26, 2009, Tuesday US President Barack Obama (L) announces his Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor (R), a 54-year-old appeals court judge from New York, speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. US President Barack...
The Examiner
President Barack Obama named federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor as the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice on Tuesday, praising her as "an inspiring woman" with both the intellect and compassion to interpret the Constitution wisely.