Sonia Sotomayor Hearing

Jeff Sessions: "We're Going To Do That Crack Cocaine Thing" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics


Senator Jeff Sessions simultaneously shocked and cracked up the Sotomayor hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday afternoon when he...

Grassley Cracks Sex Joke At Hearing: "People Always Say I Have The Ability To Turn People On"

Huffington Post | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics


Congratulations to Senator Chuck Grassley for cracking what may be the best one-liner so far at the Sotomayor confirmation hearings; best of all, it w...

Sotomayor Protester Shouts "Baby Killer" At Hearing (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics


Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearing was interrupted for the second day in a row by anti-abortion protests, with a man shouting "baby-killer" loudly...

Sotomayor's Hearing Captures Her Old Bronx Neighborhood

AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 08.14.2009 | New York


NEW YORK — Hilda Maldonado is proud that Sonia Sotomayor rose to national prominence "like a phoenix from the ashes" of a burned-out Bronx. The...

Sam Stein

Sotomayor Says Roe v. Wade Is Established Law (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics


Judge Sonia Sotomayor declared unequivocally on Tuesday that the right to choose an abortion, as determined by Roe v. Wade, was established as law by ...

Norma McCorvey, "Jane Roe," Arrested At Sotomayor Hearing

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — The plaintiff in the landmark abortion-rights case Roe v. Wade, who became an abortion protester in recent years, was among four de...

Sessions Greets Sotomayor With "Wise Latina" Comment

AP | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — The top-ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee has greeted Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor with skepticism. Se...