“What case did Perry Mason lose?” Minnesota’s infant Sen. Al Franken brought a few chuckles and a moment of levity to the Senate Judiciary Committee chambers last week. The committee held confirmation hearings last week on President Obama’s first nominee ...

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Judge Sonia Sotomayor said she was sorry for causing offense with her “wise Latina woman” comments, as a Republican on the Senate panel considering her U.S. Supreme Court nomination came close to endorsing her. “I regret that I have offended ...

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Hillary Clinton and Sonia Sotomayor have risen to the top of their professions being the best students in the class, homework always done, notebooks neat and conduct impeccable. They share the perils of their ascension: The world remains white and ...

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Judge Sonia Sotomayor said President Barack Obama didn’t ask her about abortion before her U.S. Supreme Court nomination, as she renewed her promise to lawmakers that she would interpret the law impartially. “I was asked no questions by anyone including ...

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“Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.” – William Howard Taft Has anyone else noticed the incredible predictability of the process we engage in during U.S. Supreme Court nominations? It goes something like this: Our president ...

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If you’ve been watching the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor, you’ve tuned into a debate over whether sex and ethnicity infiltrate a judge’s rulings. The basic premise running through the questioning is that life experiences shouldn’t influence ...

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Judge Sonia Sotomayor, rebutting Republican suggestions that she is biased, said the law and not her life experiences would guide her rulings on the U.S. Supreme Court. Sotomayor, who would be the first Hispanic justice, told lawmakers she was following ...

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I agree with Sandra Day O’Connor: It’s time for another woman to join the U.S. Supreme Court. During a recent interview with MSNBC’s Norah O’Donnell, O’Connor said she was happy to see Sonia Sotomayor nominated to serve on the court. ...

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U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, making her case for confirmation as the nation's first Hispanic justice, told lawmakers she had seen the "human consequences" of her rulings as a federal judge. Sotomayor said her 17-year record as a judge showed that she respects precedent, applies statutes as they are written and makes "fidelity to the law" her guiding principle. She made her comments to a Senate committee that earlier in the day had displayed a partisan divide about the role of the judiciary.

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President Obama believes the U.S. Supreme Court should look like America. If you agree, more than likely you support his nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor. She would be the first Latina, and only the third woman, to serve on the ...

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When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that New Haven, Conn., broke anti-bias law by tossing out racially skewed results of a test to promote firefighters, I thought of the old days of “Saturday Night Live.” In a skit in which ...

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