The GOP Proves They Need Latina Wisdom
GOP, let me warn you, your affront to Sotomayor is seen as an affront to all Latinas and will not be forgotten easily. This will stick. You are now officially doomed.
GOP, let me warn you, your affront to Sotomayor is seen as an affront to all Latinas and will not be forgotten easily. This will stick. You are now officially doomed.
Huffington Post | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed today to be our new Supreme Court Justice. The total vote tally was 68-31. Below, the breakdown of the vote. **** Re...
AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Sonia Sotomayor won confirmation Thursday as the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, a history-making Senate vote that c...
Des Moines Register | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley said today he planned to oppose the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court when the Senate Judiciary...
Legal Times | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics
At the request of a Democratic Senate, the Bush administration in 2006 opened a rare window on the process for preparing a Supreme Court nominee for a...
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 ...
True Slant | Kate Klonick | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
So much for the idea that elephants never forget. Speaking to nominee Sonia Sotomayor's "wise Latina" remarks, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz) quoted at length...
New York Times | Maria Newman | Posted 08.12.2009 | Politics
The day before Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings were to begin, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee signaled on Sunday that they would...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics
The Supreme Court's ruling that a group of white firefighters were unfairly denied promotions based on their race was the worst of three possible outc...
Washintgon Independent | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics
I just spoke with former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), who's now a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and asked him whether the party...
Wall Street Journal | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics
Senate Republicans started focusing their critique of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, readying a series of speeches to illustrate conservative ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics
Democrats say they made an important step towards getting a swift confirmation for Judge Sotomayor when it was announced, on Tuesday, that hearings on...
AP | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Eight national law enforcement organizations are endorsing President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor. ...
New York Times | ADAM LIPTAK | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics
Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first black member of the Supreme Court, ended his 24 years there bitter and frustrated. He had been unable, he said, t...
New York Times | Adam Nagourney | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
President Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court has put the Republican Party in a bind, as it weighs the cost of aggressively opp...
Sen. Patrick Leahy | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
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."
Marty Kaplan | Posted 06.26.2009 | Media
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.
Mario Solis-Marich | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics