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Sotomayor Challenge Blows Up in Sessions' Face

The Wall Street Journal | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ouch! Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), seeking to discredit Judge Sonia Sotomayor's judicial philosophy, cited her 2001 "wise Latina" speech, and contr...

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The GOP's Canny Hit Plan on Sotomayor

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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The GOP's goal is to bully, cow, and badger Sotomayor on the hit points to insure that she toes the line not solely before the panel, but on the bench.

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Justice for the Privileged

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Republicans are aghast that Obama would impose an "empathy standard" on his nominee for the Supreme Court, as though this word could be removed from anything that is human.

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Senator Graham Admits His Opposition To Sotomayor Not "Doing The Country Any Good"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Back in the rough and untamed ancient days of 2008, Senator John McCain used to trod this earth under a banner that read "Country First." His good fri...

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A Brief for Pat Buchanan: The Invincible Race-Baiter

Bob Cesca | Posted 05.25.2011

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I'm convinced now more than ever that the real Pat Buchanan is definitely not the Friendly Wingnut he's tricked some viewers into believing.

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Lindsey Graham: "I'm Deeply Troubled" By Sotomayor Nomination

Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Wednesday that he remains "deeply troubled" by Sonia Sotomayor's ideology and record after a 30-minute closed-door m...

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Judge Sotomayor: A Great Judge, A Strict Constructionist

Lanny Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

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If there were a "one-innocent-gaffe rule" that disqualified people from holding public office in Washington, there would probably be no one left in Washington holding public office.

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Sonia From The Block

Will Durst | Posted 05.25.2011

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That's right. Tom Tancredo accusing a Latina of being racist. You can't make stuff up like this.

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Five Facts America Needs to Know About Sonia Sotomayor

Katie Halper | Posted 05.25.2011

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FACT: Sotomayor is such a liberal elitist, she doesn't just live in the North East of the country. The neighborhood she was born and raised in is on the East side of the Bronx. The Bronx is to the North of Manhattan. I'll let you do the math.

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NYT Edits 'Sharp Tongue' Sotomayor Headline

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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As you may have heard, there was this one time that Judge Sonia Sotomayor totally interrupted a government lawyer, for the first time ever in the hist...

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Karl Rove Needs a Dictionary: Get Your Definition of Empathy Correct

Caroline Presno | Posted 05.25.2011

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Empathy is an objective understanding of the subjective experience of another. In the process of empathizing, you're actually putting your ego aside in order to see what it is like to walk in another person's shoes.

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NYT Recycles 'Sharp-Tongue' Criticism Of Sotomayor

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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I don't think I mentioned it previously, but when President Barack Obama announced that he would be submitting Second Circuit Court of Appeals Judge S...

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Bill O'Reilly: "The Left Sees White Men As The Problem" (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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As you have probably experienced for yourself, it's so hard for most white dudes to get a leg up in America, a nation that has historically both hated...

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Note to Newt: How "New Racism" Isn't Like "Old Racism"

John Ridley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Old white guys can be a funny bunch. The same anti-same-sex marriage, anti-affirmative action cadre can flower into the biggest supporters of "equality" the minute they get a whiff of minority empowerment.

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Supreme Cynics: Slamming Sotomayor

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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A behind-the-scenes look at a secret meeting of the conservative opposition to Sonia Sotomayor

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Charles Ogletree, Obama Legal Mentor, On Obama's Supreme Court Nomination

Essence | Posted 05.25.2011

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Everyone seems to have an opinion about Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama's newly announced nominee for the Supreme Court. ESSENCE.com tal...

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Why Sotomayor's Confirmation Debate Is the D.C. Equivalent of Rock of Love

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

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Listening to conservatives play the race card in attacking the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, I've been marveling at just how self-destructive they've become. Republicans have to know how bad this is for their party

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Adios a el Hispano Voto

Sam Greenfield | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Latino vote should be the exclusive property of the Republican party. Religiously faithful,socially conservative, family oriented,they are a poste...

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Scalia, Alito Quotes Blunt Conservative Attacks On Sotomayor

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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What's odd about the body of opposition to Sonia Sotomayor is that it includes so many items that seem to have been previously deemed acceptable for S...

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WaPo's Cillizza Claims Sotomayor Gives GOP A Winning Election Issue

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Cillizza, writing for the Washington Post, believes that he has discovered the pony for Republicans in opposing the nomination of Sonia Sotomayo...

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Despite Sotomayor Nomination, Latino Academic Gap Still Huge

Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco and Carola Suarez-Orozco | Posted 05.25.2011

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Latinos have the highest high school dropout rates and the lowest college attendance rates of all racial/ethnic groups, making Judge Sotomayor's biography all the more inspiring.

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Sotomayor's Reasoning

Linda Martín Alcoff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Judge Sotomayor has simply stated upfront what most of us know full well: identity affects experience, and experience makes a difference in our judgment.

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GOP Frets Over Sotomayor's "Personal Politics, Feelings, And Preferences"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Here's the latest news on Sotomayor talking points, people! Let's say you are prepping yourself to oppose Sonia Sotomayor. Or, at the very least, ...

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Sonia's Wiki Wonder

Marty Kaplan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Seconds after the networks say that it's Sotomayor, her Wikipedia entry is updated. The newspapers in my driveway can't do that; that's why on-paper distribution is dying.

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Scritti Politti: May 26, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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OMG, Sotomayor! Crazy, right? But first, here's an update on your Roland Burris/disputed heroism news. Over the weekend, we received an email from ...

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