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CNN - Thu Jul 16, 4:18 pm ET
So what does the U.S. Supreme Court gain and lose by exchanging Justice David Souter for Sonia Sotomayor?
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Fri Jul 17, 3:50 am ET
President Barack Obama's nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, appeared headed for confirmation as the first Hispanic justice on the U.S. Supreme Court after Senate hearings ended on Thursday with Republicans promising a speedy vote.
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The Myrtle Beach Sun News - Fri Jul 17, 11:10 pm ET
The Senate hearings on Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court have been roundly decried as more about senators' beliefs than about the judge's. Given that those same senators are playing to hometown crowds, however, it might be more accurate to call the hearings a rough gauge of the national political mood.
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The Edmond Sun - Fri Jul 17, 11:32 pm ET
“Unless you have a complete meltdown, you’re going to get confirmed.” — Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Hmmm, let’s see.
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Daily Sparks Tribune - Fri Jul 17, 10:14 pm ET
WASHINGTON — Sonia Sotomayor has decided advantages as she begins the most important trial of her long legal career, a nationally televised consideration of her nomination to be the first Hispanic and just the third woman on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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The Washington Times - Sat Jul 18, 4:52 am ET
Republican senators began lining up Friday to vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, praising her unflappable performance at her confirmation hearings. Even Former House Speaker and conservative stalwart Newt Gingrich, who initially attacked Judge Sotomayor's "wise Latina woman" remark as "racist," softened his resistance. Mr. Gingrich called the judge he saw testify this week "more ...
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The News-Herald - Sat Jul 18, 2:02 am ET
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is likely to be the first Hispanic justice — and only the third woman — to be appointed to the highest court in the land.
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The Daily Dispatch - Sat Jul 18, 1:33 am ET
A federal judge overstepped his authority in ordering Arizona lawmakers to provide more funds to teach English to students statewide, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today.
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Craig Daily Press - Fri Jul 17, 3:03 am ET
The New York Times’ Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak spoke at the first installment of this year’s Seminars at Steamboat lecture series. He practiced law for 15 years before joining the Times as legal reporter, and he’s covered the Supreme Court beat for about a year.
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Bloomberg via Yahoo! News - Thu Jul 16, 12:56 pm ET
July 16 (Bloomberg) -- 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.
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Minnesota Public Radio - Wed Jul 15, 8:56 pm ET
U.S. Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer recently spoke at the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival about his work on the U.S. Supreme Court. He talked with Harvard Law School professor Charles Ogletree.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Jul 16, 1:24 pm ET
Sonia Sotomayor seemed all but certain on Thursday to cruise to confirmation as the first Hispanic US Supreme Court justice by August 7, according to key Democratic and Republican senators.
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The Washington Times - Fri Jul 17, 5:55 am ET
Judged against the standard of the U.S. Senate, maybe Sonia Sotomayor has a point. "A wise Latina" certainly came across smarter than most of those white men on the Judiciary Committee. The hearings on her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court ended Thursday, and the mash notes served up to her by gaga Democratic senators when it was time for everybody to go home summed up just about all that ...
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Thu Jul 16, 8:15 pm ET
Press material for Aviva Kempner's excellent "Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg" offers Gertrude Berg, the creator, principal writer and star of radio and TV's "The Goldbergs," as a precursor to Oprah, Martha Stewart and Rachael Ray.
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The Yahoo! Newsroom via Yahoo! News - Thu Jul 16, 8:55 am ET
Republicans are bringing in their own heavy hitters -- to argue against Sotomayor. You can expect to see conservatives Peter Kirsanow, a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life, which opposes abortion rights.