What’s a Republican to do? The president has gone and nominated a U.S. Supreme Court justice who was named to the federal bench by George H.W. Bush and twice approved by the Senate, has a movie-ready life story and even ...

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Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s record had just been savaged in a 54-second video. A woman’s voice closes the video by declaring, “America deserves better.” That same voice and those same words end two other videos slamming two also-rans for the U.S. ...

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Legal Aid of Western Missouri has good timing. One day after Sonia Sotomayor was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, Jeffrey Rosen, a law professor and legal journalist who has written extensively about the nation's highest court, gave the keynote address at the organization's 11th annual Justice For All lunch. Rosen predicted that Sotomayor would be "handily" confirmed by the U.S. Senate, both due to her credentials and to Democrats' dominance of that body. What remains to be seen, he said, is how well she fits in with the current court and the extent to which she will embody President Barack Obama's call for more "empathy" from judges.

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Sonia Sotomayor’s path to a possible seat on the nation’s highest court began in public housing in a Spanish-speaking home in New York City’s South Bronx. Sotomayor’s father died when she was 9, and her mother, Celina, worked six days ...

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Sonia Sotomayor is “an inspiring woman who will make a great justice,” President Barack Obama said Tuesday. She would bring to the court “wisdom accumulated from an inspiring life’s journey.” Sotomayor, 54, would replace retiring Justice David Souter and become ...

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As news of President Barack Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor spread quickly Tuesday morning, Missouri lawyers are already considering what the nominee could contribute to the U.S. Supreme Court and what kind of confirmation challenge she faces in the Senate. Washington University law professor Greg Magarian said Sotomayor was a "brilliant pick by Obama, just like [Chief Justice John] Roberts was a brilliant pick by Bush." But that doesn't mean special interest groups won't try to block her confirmation. Ed Martin, former chief of staff to Gov. Matt Blunt, wasted no time calling on Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., to make sure Sotomayor embraces pro-life values.

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President Barack Obama said he will replace Supreme Court Justice David Souter with a jurist who exhibits an “independent mind” and that he wants to have his nominee confirmed by the time the court’s next term begins. Obama interrupted the ...

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