SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2009 BY LIZ SIDOTI AND BIODUN IGINLA, BBC NEWS Earlier this week, President Barack ObamaBarack Obama nominated Sotomayor to the Supreme Court to replace the retiring...
Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Me.) offered a glowing review of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, but stopped just short of pledging to support her. "I'm going to let the process play out," Snowe said following a 45-minute meeting Wednesday evening,...
Two Northwest Democratic senators say they are impressed by U.S. Appeals Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor, after meeting separately with the Supreme Court nominee...Patty Murray of Washington and Ron Wyden of Oregon met privately with Sotomayor on...
A Republican senator who met today with Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor (soh-toh-my-OR') says he's still "deeply troubled" by her "ideology, record and philosophy." Lindsay Graham of South Carolina says the nominee doesn't deserve to be called...
A strong majority of the American people oppose the position that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor took on an affirmative action case that will figure prominently in her Senate confirmation hearings, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll.
Sotomayor’s January 2009 ruling that the Second Amendment does not apply to the states. “I understand that during her career she has written hundreds and hundreds of opinions,” said Reid. “I haven’t read a single one of them. And if...
D iversity is a double-edged sword, as President Obama quickly learned with his choice to succeed Supreme Court Justice David Souter. Federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor's background is about as different from Souter's as possible. On a bench historically...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) gave a harsh assessment of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor Wednesday afternoon, ripping her ideology, criticizing her temperament and saying he had little intention of voting for her. In a critical news conference...
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday he shouldn't have called Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor a racist, but said he was still concerned that she would bring bias to her decisions. In a letter to supporters, the Georgia Republican...
Newt Gingrich has apologised for calling Barack Obama's supreme court nominee a "racist" over her comment that "a wise Latina woman" could "reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life." Should a justice's race influence her...
News Source: Nashville Tennessean Online
| 6 months ago
The campaigns for and against the nomination of federal appellate Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court are marshaling their resources for a potentially difficult confirmation process. Supporters of President Barack Obama's choice should...
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