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The GOP Proves They Need Latina Wisdom

Mario Solis-Marich | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

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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.

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Sotomayor Confirmation Vote Breakdown

Huffington Post | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

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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...

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Sotomayor Confirmed To Supreme Court

AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Sonia Sotomayor won confirmation Thursday as the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, a history-making Senate vote that c...

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Sen. Grassley To Vote Against Sotomayor Confirmation

Des Moines Register | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

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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...

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White House Won't Say Who Prepped Sotomayor

Legal Times | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

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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...

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

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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 ...

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GOP: Let's Hold Sotomayor To Standard Of Judge We Voted Against

True Slant | Kate Klonick | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

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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...

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G.O.P. Senators Planning To Question Sotomayor's Impartiality

New York Times | Maria Newman | Posted 08.12.2009 | Politics

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The day before Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings were to begin, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee signaled on Sunday that they would...

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GOP Jumps On Ricci, But Sotomayor's Confirmation Chances Remain Strong

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

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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...

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Another Former Republican Official: Don't Filibuster Sotomayor

Washintgon Independent | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics

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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...

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GOP Senators Ready Series Of Speeches To Critique Sotomayor

Wall Street Journal | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

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Senate Republicans started focusing their critique of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, readying a series of speeches to illustrate conservative ...

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Sotomayor Hearing Dates Set, Democrats Pleased

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

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Democrats say they made an important step towards getting a swift confirmation for Judge Sotomayor when it was announced, on Tuesday, that hearings on...

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Eight Law Enforcement Groups Endorse Sotomayor

AP | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Eight national law enforcement organizations are endorsing President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor. ...

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Minority Judges Influence Decisions Just By Presence

New York Times | ADAM LIPTAK | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics

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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...

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Republicans Weigh Risks Of A Supreme Court Battle

New York Times | Adam Nagourney | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

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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...

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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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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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