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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three Republican senators said Friday they will back President Barack Obama's choice of Sonia Sotomayor to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, setting the stage for a likely easy confirmation.
So what does the U.S. Supreme Court gain and lose by exchanging Justice David Souter for Sonia Sotomayor?
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
