1.0 link 212757 <![CDATA[The Supreme Court: Why Women Matter]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peggy-drexler/the-supreme-court-why-wom_b_212757.html While the media wallowed in the mush-brained nattering over a few out-of-context statements said to reveal Judge Sonia Sotomayor as "racist," something interesting was happening over at the place where she aspires to work.

We saw a quick glimpse of why her gender is every bit as important to the Supreme Court as her heritage. Given the stubborn issues still facing women today, perhaps even more so.

In a case brought by four women against AT&T, the Court ruled that decades-old pregnancy...

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