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News Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
| 6 months ago
Nowhere was the topic of racial representation more hotly debated than in California, whose state university system had recently adopted a race-blind admission policy that caused the percentage of Hispanic law students at Berkeley to drop almost in...
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News Source: Politico
| 6 months ago
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,...
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News Source: Associated Press
| 6 months ago
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...
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News Source: Kansas City Star
| 6 months ago
After an initial burst of often personal criticism of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, some conservatives are scaling back their attacks and admitting that her judicial record is more moderate than her speeches that they have been trumpeting on...
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News Source: Uinta County News
| 6 months ago
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...
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News Source: Uinta County News
| 6 months ago
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...
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News Source: Politico
| 6 months ago
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...
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News Source: The Examiner
| 6 months ago
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...
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News Source: The Guardian
| 6 months ago
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...
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News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| 6 months ago
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is racing through a crucial set of meetings with senators on Capitol Hill , working to reassure Republicans who worry she'd bring ethnic and gender bias to her decisions. Sotomayor, who would be the high court's...