WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says it's too early to talk about supporting or opposing Sonia Sotomayor. But he says...
CNN | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics
Former President George H.W. Bush stood up for his former judicial nominee Sonia Sotomayor Friday, telling CNN Anchor Robin Meade that GOP critics who...
Washington Post | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics
When conservative leaders wanted to criticize the White House over Sonia Sotomayor's record on crime, they turned to a little-known Alexandria public ...
McClatchy | Margaret Talev | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics
Republicans may have a window of opportunity to turn public opinion against President Barack Obama's first Supreme Court nominee, but a new poll finds...
Glenn Sacks | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics
A million and a half American women legally walk away from motherhood every year. By contrast, courts forbid men to avoid responsibility even the most extreme circumstances.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics
Just when you thought we might be able to move past all the race-based criticism of Sotomayor comes this morning's article on how affirmative action benefited her academic career.
Susanna Speier | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics
Any justice with the level of training that Sotomayor has would have the professionalism to compartmentalize her empathy while evaluating a Supreme Court Case.
AP | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The brother of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, beaming with pride about her accomplishments, says critics of the federal app...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics
A Christian group called "Faith and Action in the Nation's Capital" went to the room in the Senate Hart Building where the confirmation hearing for So...
New York Times | FERNANDA SANTOS | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics
Jeffrey Deskovic heard a TV talk show host announce President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court last month, and his mind raced. That name; he reme...
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...
Michael J. O'Neil | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics
Neither race, gender, should be determinative in any legal judgment. But to assert that one's life experiences do not play a role in how facts are assessed is to ignore reality.
Cristóbal Joshua Alex | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
The right-wing talking heads and elected officials are using this moment to trash a well-respected and intelligent woman, and the country's fastest growing voter base.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.08.2009 | Politics
Barack Obama's senior adviser said on Sunday that if Senate Republicans were to attempt a filibuster on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, it woul...
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
This is an interesting and refreshing subtext in Obama's entire speech -- he says things are "facts" and not opinions. Considering the lunacy that passes for "political debate" on American television screens -- where there are always two points of view, and every "fact" is subject to spin from one side or another -- it is a breath of fresh air.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics
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...
Ari Melber | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics
Republican officials are learning that in the minority, their echo chamber still works, but it's working against them.
Politico.com | ALEX ISENSTADT | | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics
Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) is refusing to commit himself to supporting Sonia Sotomayor until the conclusion of her Judiciary Committee hearings....
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics
Judge Sonia Sotomayor's answers to a questionnaire she filled out for the Senate Judiciary Committee provides some additional information about the pr...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics
The Senate Judiciary Committee has just released a questionnaire filled out by Judge Sonia Sotomayor as part of the confirmation process for her appoi...
The Hill | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics
In public, Senate Republicans have kept their distance from conservative attacks on Sonia Sotomayor -- but behind the scenes, they have encouraged act...
The Washington Post | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics
Former New York police detective Chris Montanino remembers his frustration nearly three decades ago, when he was ready to go after child-porn distribu...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics
Judge Sonia Sotomayor enjoys wide popularity as her confirmation for Supreme Court enters its early stages. But among the groups registering a small a...
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics
In all the hoopla over Judge Sonia Sotomayor being nominated to the Supreme Court, there is one interesting side story that the media is largely ignor...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.04.2009 | Media
Some women's groups are outraged over an editorial cartoon that ran in The Oklahoman newspaper on Wednesday - it depicts Supreme Court nominee Sonia S...
AP | Posted 07.15.2009 | Politics