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Sam Stein

Sotomayor: Champion Of The Oppressed, Outcasts And Nerds

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

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From her days as a student at Princeton to the weeks after she was contacted about a possibility of serving on the Supreme Court, Judge Sonia Sotomayo...

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Sotomayor's Baseball Ruling: Conservatives Go To Bat

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

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It was destined to come to this. The initial salvos in the Supreme Court confirmation battle for Sonia Sotomayor are being played out on fairly tradi...

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Inside Obama's Court Vet: President Settled On Sotomayor Monday Night

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

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Following a thorough vetting process that drew down the number of potential Supreme Court nominees to four, President Barack Obama ultimately settled ...

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"Where Policy Is Made": Sotomayor's Court Comment Explained

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

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The ubiquitous conservative attack on Judge Sonia Sotomayor stems from a statement she made at a conference at Duke University Law School in 2005, in ...

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Sotomayor's Medical History Sparks Wider Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

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With President Obama's Supreme Court choice expected within weeks, the vetting process for prospective candidates has grown more intense. Judicial rul...

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Steele: Perez Hilton Is Obama's Kind Of "Empathetic Judge"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics

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Michael Steele has made perhaps the most peculiar case yet against President Obama's criteria for choosing a Supreme Court nominee. It involves the qu...

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Obama Wants Supreme Court Nominee With Long-Term Impact: Gibbs

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.04.2009 | Politics

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White House spokesman Robert Gibbs stressed on Monday that while the president was not taking age into consideration when choosing his Supreme Court n...

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