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Sotomayor Confirmation: Senate's Lone Hispanic Republican Mel Martinez Backs Sotomayor

AP | By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- The Senate's lone Hispanic Republican says he'll vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Florida Republican Mel Martinez call...

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Sam Stein

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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Sotomayor Hearings (VIDEO, UPDATES): Day 2

Huffington Post/AP | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

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Judge Sonia Sotomayor appeared Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the second day of her Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Our full liv...

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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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Ryan Grim

Top Republican Has Effusive Praise For Sotomayor (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.01.2009 | Politics

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***SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO*** Sen. Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, let his Republican counterpart do the heavy lifting o...

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Sotomayor's Reasoning

Linda Martín Alcoff | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics

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Linda Martín Alcoff

Judge Sotomayor has simply stated upfront what most of us know full well: identity affects experience, and experience makes a difference in our judgment.

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Ryan Grim

Leahy Rips GOP For Blocking Sotomayor -- In 1998 (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

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The conservative effort to keep Sonia Sotomayor off the U.S. Supreme Court is more than a decade old. Sen. Patrick Leahy, the top Democrat on the Jud...

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Jesus Christ Nominated To Supreme Court; Republicans Oppose Candidacy On Principle (VIDEO)

Posted 06.20.2009 | Comedy

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A recent post (about Jesus' nomination to the highest court in the land and his subsequent defaming by the Republicans) on the Daily Kos inspired sati...

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Lawmakers Press For Second Black Justice

The Hill | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics

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The Congressional Black Caucus is launching a campaign to persuade President Obama to appoint one of their members to the Supreme Court seat that will...

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As Specter Moves to the Left, So Does the Supreme Court

Carl Jeffers | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

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Carl Jeffers

Having a 60-vote filibuster-proof Senate for the president changes the dynamic entirely for Obama's Supreme Court nominee selections, and it changes it in his favor.

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