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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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For Any and All Conserve-ative Constitutionalists: After some sham public hearings, political rhetoric on both sides of the new Global Socialist Party holding court in D.C., and chess moves for re-election purposes with respect to the final vote and...
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Her background and experiences undoubtedly will affect her thinking and influence her decisions, but they probably will do so in ways that were hardly mentioned during her confirmation hearings...She spoke Spanish at home as a child, and she will join...
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Supreme Courts finally get their first Hispanic Supreme Court Judge as the Senate voted in Sonia Sotomayor on a 68-31 vote. Uncertainty laid in her path, beginning with day one where she made her opening statement by making a statement about her own...
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Every week there are bits and pieces of the news that are going to have a long term impact on America and the people. This week we've brought home some prisoners and set a precedent that some fear will be abused. Me? I'm glad for the families sake. I...
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Supreme Court Justice Sotomoyor. Has a nice ring to it. Today Sotomayor is approved by the Senate Judiciary Panel, 13 - 6. Now it is on to the full Senate to approve her. While reading articles about the "difficult" decision this...
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