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  • Hispanic rights group at center of Sotomayor fight

    AP – 59 mins ago

    NEW YORK - Cesar Perales has fought his share of critics over the years, in legal battles for minorities denied jobs, bilingual classes in schools and more Latino police officers.

  • Nominee puts on best face, but who is she?

    AP – Sat Jul 11, 10:41 am ET

    NEW YORK - For weeks, Sonya Sotomayor has put on her best face, displaying a pleasant disposition that has somewhat fended off critics of her nomination to become the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice.

  • Women's groups quiet on Sotomayor

    AP – Fri Jul 10, 9:31 pm ET

    WASHINGTON - Women's groups, euphoric when President Barack Obama chose Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, have been remarkably quiet in the weeks since on the judge who would be the court's third woman ever.

  • Mock exercises prepare Sotomayor for hearings

    AP – Fri Jul 10, 6:20 am ET

    WASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has endured weeks of insults, obnoxious questions and unwelcome drilling into her work as a judge and a lawyer — and it was all on purpose, essentially a dress rehearsal for her confirmation hearings.

  • GOP to call on firefighter Sotomayor ruled against

    AP – Thu Jul 9, 9:10 pm ET

    WASHINGTON - Republicans will use next week's high-profile Senate hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor to raise concerns about her record on race, gun rights and abortion while Democrats work to defend President Barack Obama's first high court choice as a mainstream judge who sticks to the law.

  • Calif. high court: Breath test accuracy can vary

    AP – Thu Jul 9, 6:14 pm ET

    SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court has joined a handful of other courts in the country that have said Breathalyzer results mean different things for different people and ruled that suspected drunken drivers can attack the test results in court.

  • Study: Sotomayor tough on white-collar criminals

    AP – Thu Jul 9, 2:37 pm ET

    WASHINGTON - High court nominee Sonia Sotomayor typically handed out tougher prison sentences than her colleagues in the federal courthouse in Manhattan, especially to white-collar criminals, a new study says.

  • Analysis: Sotomayor record thin on executive power

    AP – Thu Jul 9, 3:10 am ET

    WASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's thin record on the limits of presidential power suggests she will be neither reflexively hostile to broad expansion of a president's authority nor a reliable rubber stamp in support of it.

  • Nevada high court gets follow-up OJ bail request

    AP – Tue Jul 7, 7:32 pm ET

    LAS VEGAS - O.J. Simpson is promising not to disappear or endanger the community if he's freed from prison pending his appeal in an armed hotel room heist, his lawyers told the Nevada Supreme Court.

  • Noriega urges US Supreme Court to block extradition

    AFP – Tue Jul 7, 4:31 pm ET

    MIAMI (AFP) - Panamanian former strongman Manuel Noriega filed a petition Tuesday to the US Supreme Court to block his extradition to France, where he is wanted for money laundering, his lawyers said.

  • Noriega asks U.S. high court to bar extradition

    Reuters – Tue Jul 7, 4:14 pm ET

    MIAMI (Reuters) - Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to block his extradition to France, where he was convicted in absentia on money laundering charges.

  • Sotomayor gets boost in bid for Senate approval

    Reuters – Tue Jul 7, 2:56 pm ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor got a boost on Tuesday in what is expected to be a relatively easy road to Senate confirmation when an influential U.S. lawyer's group gave her its top rating.

  • Noriega asks US Supreme Court to block extradition

    AP – Tue Jul 7, 1:32 pm ET

    MIAMI - Panama's former dictator Manuel Noriega asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to block his extradition to France to face money-laundering charges, contending that as a prisoner of war he must be allowed to return home.

  • Lawyers' group: Sotomayor well qualified for court

    AP – Tue Jul 7, 11:09 am ET

    WASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor earned a "well-qualified" rating from the American Bar Association on Tuesday as she prepared for Senate hearings next week.

  • Top Republican hits Sotomayor on firefighters case

    AP – Tue Jul 7, 10:51 am ET

    WASHINGTON - The Senate's top Republican is lashing out at Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor for ruling against white firefighters who alleged reverse discrimination.

  • Franken sworn in as Minnesota senator

    AP – Tue Jul 7, 6:15 pm ET

    WASHINGTON - Al Franken became a senator on Tuesday, completing the transformation from comedian to politician.

  • GOP senator: Will race infect Sotomayor rulings?

    AP – Mon Jul 6, 12:53 pm ET

    WASHINGTON - A top Republican senator said Monday that he wants to find out whether Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor would let racial bias affect her decisions as a justice.

  • Analysis: GOP struggles for anti-Sotomayor message

    AP – Mon Jul 6, 12:05 am ET

    WASHINGTON - A week before her Senate hearings, Republicans are floundering in their efforts to trip up Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, unable to find an effective message about why she's not fit to serve.

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