Judge Sonia Sotomayor

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Ode to the Purple Senator: Lindsey Graham, Republican, South Carolina

Lanny Davis | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Mr. Graham is truly a rare politician: someone who can maintain his conservative principles but still reach across the aisle to find common ground, even, at times, with liberals like me.

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Judicial Confirmation Process Needs 21st-Century Updating

Steven Hill | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

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Recognizing the Supreme Court as an ideologically skewed judicial legislature helps us to understand how badly this crucial body needs to be updated for the 21st century.

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Sonia Sotomayor Watched Senate Confirmation At New York Courthouse

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 09.06.2009 | New York

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NEW YORK — Sonia Sotomayor bathed in applause from friends and colleagues at a federal courthouse in lower Manhattan Thursday as the Senate vote...

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There They Go Again: Tom Tancredo, Mark Krikorian and the Politics of Hate and Fear

Janet Murguía | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

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The politics of hate and fear are not new to our country. We've seen them before. We know what they look like. Right now, they look a lot like Tom Tancredo and Mark Krikorian.

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The Professor, the Policeman, and the Judge

Robin Lakoff | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics

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Now that the Gates-Crowley incident is beginning to fade from prominence, it is time to ask about the takeaway: what should we learn from this "teachable moment"?

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NRA Threatens To Punish Senators Who Vote For Sotomayor... No One Listens

AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The National Rifle Association's threat to punish senators who vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has been met with a s...

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Sotomayor Confirmation: Senate Judiciary Committee Votes: WATCH LIVE

Huffington Post | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

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On Tuesday the Senate Judiciary Committee will convene to vote on the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. Sotomayor is expect...

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Facts Without Feelings in Family Court

Carol Smaldino | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

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Those who refuse to acknowledge an emotional involvement are hiding and, sadly, they have impressed us so much that we tend to believe in appearance as opposed to substance.

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Gates's Arbitrary Arrest: It Happens in New York Too

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 08.27.2009 | New York

Irrespective of how educated or rich one might be, to be a black man in America is still a condition in which one feels he has no rights that any police officer is bound to respect.

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GOP Sen. Graham To Support Sotomayor

AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Wednesday that he will vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, breaking with his party'...

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NARAL Endorses Sotomayor For Supreme Court

AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 08.21.2009 | Home

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WASHINGTON — The abortion rights group NARAL ProChoice America says it's endorsing Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. NARAL says Sotomayor'...

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Sotomayor and the Fundamentals of Diversity and Affirmative Action

Jim Wallis | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

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In the story of creation in Genesis we see that the image of God is best reflected not through sameness, but through the breadth that exists within the grand diversity of creation.

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Sotomayor Confirmation: Swaying Court May Be Tougher Than Confirmation

AP | By MARK SHERMAN | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- Sonia Sotomayor might find it was easier to disarm Republican senators who have one eye on Hispanic voters than to sway Supreme Court ju...

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Empathy For The Devil

Michelle Schweiger Schecter | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

Hart Senate Office Building, Room 216 was the venue for a skirmish that at times got awfully mean. Judge Sonia came in earnest, her cards laid out on the table.

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Sotomayor Confirmation: Senate's Lone Hispanic Republican Mel Martinez Backs Sotomayor

AP | By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- The Senate's lone Hispanic Republican says he'll vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Florida Republican Mel Martinez call...

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Judge Sotomayor, Republican Inquisitors, and the Fallacy of Immaculate Perception

Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

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What judges must do is reflect upon one's preconceptions and prejudices so that they do not unconsciously determine one's decisions and actions.

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Judge Sotomayor's Suits: Which Did She Wear Best? (PHOTOS, POLL)

Huffington Post | Emily Singer | Posted 08.16.2009 | Style

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Judge Sonia Sotomayor has spent the last four days on Capitol Hill making the case for her Supreme Court suitability. But as the nation watched, the o...

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Umpires, Perspective, and the Supreme Court

Jim Wallis | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

The claim that any human is able to remain unaffected by their background or have a purely objective view of any case is to claim a quality that belongs only to God: omniscience.

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The Stench Of Conservative Desperation

The Progress Report | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

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As Sotomayor's elevation to the Court grows increasingly inevitable, conservatives are the ones melting down.

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The Sotomayor/Obama Business Model

Natalie Holder-Winfield | Posted 08.16.2009 | New York

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Judge Sotomayor seems to be following the Obama business model for deconstructing barriers.

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Sotomayor Hearings are Political Bullsh*t

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

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Senate confirmation hearings on judicial nominations are a form of Kabuki Theater in which everyone plays their assigned roles and no one tells the whole truth.

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Republicans and Immigration

The Progress Report | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Republicans are still finding their "way out of the wilderness" when it comes to immigration.

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Handling the "Whoopses": Judge Sotomayor and The Art of Fixing a Misspeak.

Michael Maslansky | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

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In today's age of the media microscope, every judge, politician or CEO has at least one "whoops" that they wish they hadn't said or done. The challenge is in how well you handle your critics.

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Sotomayor's Bronx School, Blessed Sacrament, Inspires Today's Students

New York Times | MANNY FERNANDEZ | Posted 08.16.2009 | New York

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Lately, students at Blessed Sacrament have been doing a lot of talking about what they want to be, as the most famous graduate in the school's nearly ...

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