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CAPITAL CULTURE: Sotomayor adds celebrity to court
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 2 days ago
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Apparently, no one told Sonia Sotomayor that Supreme Court justices are supposed to be circumspect, emerging from their marble palace mainly to dispense legal wisdom to law schools, judges' conferences and lawyers' meetings. Since becoming the first Hispanic...
Tags: Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, Sandra Day O\'Connor, Bob Thompson, latina woman, wise latina, confirmed hearing, Latina, Thomas Saenz, Clarence Thomas, Los Angeles, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States, Barack Obama Supreme Court candidates, Sotomayor, Supreme Court of the United States, Entertainment Culture
Sotomayor Confirmed
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility When Hilda Frontany observed on T.V. as the U.S. Senate cast their vote to confirm Judge Sonia Sotomayor to serve as Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, she was ecstatic when the final vote to approve the confirmation was 68 to 31. �For the first time...
Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Eliud Medina, Hilda Frontany, Chicago, Puerto Rico, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court nomination, Sonia Sotomayor, Sotomayor, Supreme Court of the United States, Politics
Liberty, Justice and Equality for all
New Haven :: CT :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility The Chief Justice came to campus to speak about the Indiana Conference for Legal Education Opportunities, a program designed to help disadvantaged and/or minority students to pay for their legal education in one of the four Indiana law schools. Justice...
Tags: Indiana Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, New Haven, Sotomayor, Ricci v. DeStefano, Supreme Court of the United States, Supreme Court of Indiana, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Presidency of Barack Obama, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court nomination, Law Crime, Social Issues
CAPITAL CULTURE: Sotomayor adds celebrity to court
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility Associated Press Writer Text Size: tool goes here Apparently, no one told Sonia Sotomayor that Supreme Court justices are supposed to be circumspect, emerging from their marble palace mainly to dispense legal wisdom to law schools, judges' conferences...
Tags: Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, Sandra Day O\'Connor, Bob Thompson, latina woman, wise latina, confirmed hearing, Latina, Thomas Saenz, Clarence Thomas, Los Angeles, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States, Sotomayor, Supreme Court of the United States, Entertainment Culture
Democrats poised to end GOP court filibuster
Hamilton :: IN :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility Democrats were poised Tuesday end to end a Senate filibuster against a controversial appeals court nominee and show Republicans they can't stop President Barack Obama from turning the federal judiciary to the left. Democrats, with a bit of Republican...
Tags: David Hamilton, Senate Judiciary Committee, GOP Opposition Slows Obama, judicial nominees, Richard Lugar, president obama, appeals court, lugar defends, hoosier judicial, Hamilton, Filibuster, Politics, Evan Bayh, Richard Lugar, Indiana, George W. Bush Supreme Court candidates, Supreme Court of the United States, Sonia Sotomayor, George W. Bush judicial appointment controversies, Law Crime, Jeff Sessions, United States Senate, United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Brian Bosma, Parliamentary procedure, Barack Obama, Nuclear option, Religion Belief
Appeals court disturbed by court practice in Conn.
New Haven :: CT :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility Conn.— A federal appeals court says it is disturbed by allegations prosecutors in a Connecticut court have a longstanding practice of denying low income defendants their right to arraignment and free legal representation when they first appear in court....
Tags: New Haven, Prosecutor, Richard Blumenthal, Supreme Court of the United States, United States courts of appeals, Law Crime, Sotomayor, Firefighter, Sonia Sotomayor, Ricci v. DeStefano, New Haven Connecticut, Social Issues
Judicial nominees confirmed at a snail's pace
Hamilton :: IN :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility Despite a solid Democratic majority in the Senate, President Obama is on pace to set a record for the fewest judges confirmed during a president's first year in the White House. So far, only six of Obama's nominees to the lower federal courts have won...
Tags: Hamilton, United States Senate, Bill Clinton, Nuclear option, George W. Bush judicial appointment controversies, Presidents of the United Nations Security Council, Richard Lugar, Barack Obama, Politics, Social Issues, Helene White, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court of the United States, Law Crime
Tom Tancredo "Fully Intends to Run" for Governor of Colorado
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility Tom Tancredo "Fully Intends to Run" for Governor of Colorado Posted by Faiz Shakir , Think Progress at 4:27 AM on November 14, 2009. This should be some first-class crazy. Share and save this post: AlterNet Social Networks:...
Tags: Tom Tancredo, fully intends, San Francisco, Politics, Barack Obama, Sonia Sotomayor, Social Issues
Court revives Chicago mezuzah case
Cook :: NE :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility Political Reporter/apallasch@suntimes.com A federal appellate court today revived a Jewish family�s lawsuit against a Chicago condominium association that repeatedly removed a mezuzah from the family�s doorpost. Some observant Jewish families believe...
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Sotomayor quickly makes presence felt
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility In the first day of her first term on the Supreme Court, Justice Sonia Sotomayor showed herself to be an active participant during oral arguments, speaking about three dozen times during oral hearings in the term's first case Monday. In the case argued...
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