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Graham Decried Guilt By Association With Ginsburg, Alito But Not Sotomayor

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

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One of the most memorable moments from Judge Sonia Sotomayor's second day of hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday was the aggressi...

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NAMUDNO and the Dilemma of Observational Equivalence

David Epstein | Posted 07.26.2009 | Style

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Going into this case, the common wisdom was that there was no easy way out for the Court.

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Sotomayor Champion D'Amato Goes Silent On Supreme Court Nomination

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

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Several weeks after Supreme Court Justice David Souter announced his retirement from the Supreme Court, former Republican Sen. Alfonse D'Amato wrote a...

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Former Princeton President Recalls "Exceptional" Student Sotomayor

The New Yorker | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

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William G. Bowen joined the faculty of Princeton in 1958. He became provost in 1967 and served as president of Princeton from 1972, the year Sonia Sot...

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Supreme Cynics: Slamming Sotomayor

Rick Horowitz | Posted 06.28.2009 | Comedy

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

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Karl Rove: We've Already Had A Hispanic Justice

The Huffington Post | Megan Slack | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

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In Thursday's Wall Street Journal, former Bush adviser Karl Rove made his case against Obama Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Along with the sta...

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A Break For Obama: Social Conservatives Hang Back On Sotomayor

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Dean | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics

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No one expected President Barack Obama to win over religious or cultural conservatives with his choice for the Supreme Court. But in the hours that fo...

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WATCH: "Is Sotomayor Smart Enough?" Attack Ad

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 06.26.2009 | Comedy

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Maybe the problem is that most right wingers don't know what summa cum laude means. Most likely, they're just desperately making stuff up to try to stop an extremely qualified nominee.

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Scritti Politti: May 26, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.26.2009 | Media

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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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Warren, Black, Marshall, Douglas -- Obama Got It Right. Hooray.

Martin Garbus | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

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In writing the great legal decisions of our time, it was the personality of the writer, the life of the writer, the experiences of the writer, that determined the brilliance of the decision.

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

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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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Sotomayor An Unknown Quantity On Executive Power Issues

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.26.2009 | Media

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Back in the dark ages of, say, yesterday, when I had settled into the (totally wrong) mindset that today's nomination announcement was going the way o...

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Jeffrey Rosen: Sotomayor Should Be Confirmed

The New Republic | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

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Of course, Judge Sotomayor should be confirmed to the Supreme Court. She obviously wasn't my first choice, for reasons I reported three weeks ago, hav...

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Sonia Sotomayor Battle Lines: Firefighters And Baseball

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.26.2009 | Media

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Well, here's the first salvo in your Sonia Sotomayor Talking Points Battle. On the one hand: FIREFIGHTERS! Specifically the firefighters of New Have...

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The Politics of Sotomayor

Dylan Loewe | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

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As the Republican leadership gears up for the confirmation, they may be walking squarely into another political trap, carefully designed by the president.

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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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On the Nomination of Sonia Sotomayor

Sen. Patrick Leahy | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

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Having a Supreme Court that better reflects the diversity of America helps ensure that we keep faith with the words over the entrance of the Supreme Court: "Equal justice under law."

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Greenwald: Obama's Sotomayor Choice Should Be Praised

Salon | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

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Reports indicate that President Obama has selected Second Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace David Souter on the Supreme Court....

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Sonia's Wiki Wonder

Marty Kaplan | Posted 06.26.2009 | Media

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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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Obama Names Supreme Court Nominee: Sonia Sotomayor

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Reaching for history, President Barack Obama on Tuesday chose federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor to be the first Hispanic justic...

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Conservatives Itching For Futile Supreme Court Fight

Politico | DANIEL LIBIT & ANDIE COLLER | | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics

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As Barack Obama prepares to nominate his first Supreme Court justice, conservative activists have three words for Senate Republicans: Lock and load. ...

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Nelson Open To Filibustering Obama Court Nominee (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.24.2009 | Politics

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President Obama said on Saturday that a Supreme Court nominee is coming soon, but Republicans in the Senate have spent weeks working to frame the type...

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Jennifer Granholm, Supreme Court Candidate, To Be At White House

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, one of President Barack Obama's candidates for the Supreme Court, will be at the White House on Tu...

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Obama's Next Appointee -- Part II

Martin Garbus | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

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Young Supreme Court appointees can sit, as may Thomas, Alito and Scalia, for 30 or more years. Age is as essential a criterion as liberalism.

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Are We a Pro-life Nation?

Julie Menin | Posted 06.17.2009 | Politics

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What this new Gallup poll really means is that we will see President Obama gravitate more to the center on his selection of a Supreme Court nominee than some would have thought.

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