Obama 'Gratified' by Sotomayor Confirmation
President Barack Obama says he is ‘deeply gratified’ by confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. She becomes the 111th justice and just the third woman to serve.
President Barack Obama says he is ‘deeply gratified’ by confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. She becomes the 111th justice and just the third woman to serve.
Sonia Sotomayor won confirmation Thursday as the nation’s first Hispanic Supreme Court justice in a history-making Senate vote that capped a summer-long debate heavy with ethnic politics.
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AP: The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday voted to approve Sonia Sotomayor as the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice over nearly solid Republican opposition, paving the way for a historic confirmation vote. The panel voted 13-6 in favor of Sotomayor,
“I’m looking through you, where did you go? I thought I knew you, what did I know? You don’t look different, but you have changed. I’m looking through you, you’re not the same.” — Lennon/McCartney: “Rubber Soul,” 1965 When Sonia
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says he’ll vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, breaking with his party’s conservative leaders.
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy AP: In the glare of bright lights, Sen. Patrick Leahy called to order confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor that she hopes will make history and
AP: Sen. Tom Coburn evoked a 1950s TV show Wednesday in a quip responding to Sonia Sotomayor’s scenario about what he might do if she – hypothetically, of course – attacked him. “You’ll have a lot of ‘splainin’ to do,”
AP: Senate Democrats praised Sonia Sotomayor as a judicial pioneer, but Republicans questioned her impartiality and President Barack Obama’s views as well Monday at confirmation hearings for the nation’s first Hispanic nominee to the Supreme Court. Even so, Sen. Lindsey
The Supreme Court has ruled that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge.
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Philadelphia Inquirer: A racially charged U.S. Supreme Court battle over New Haven firefighter promotions plays out every day in the city’s Dixwell Fire Station. New Haven threw out
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During a high school graduation, First Lady Michelle Obama compared Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s life story of humble beginnings and high achievement to the paths taken by her husband and herself.
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The Senate’s top Democrat praised federal judge Sonia Sotomayor Tuesday as an extraordinarily well-qualified Supreme Court nominee whose background as an ‘underdog’ appeals to Americans.
Once again, life imitates art as farce. And irony prevails. The Sonia Sotomayor candidacy for Supreme Court Justice is beginning to heat up. There is much to admire about her personal story and success. But she should not be confirmed
President Barack Obama pressed the Senate anew Saturday to swiftly confirm Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, expressing confidence that efforts to scuttle her nomination will fail despite intensified scrutiny.
AP: President Barack Obama on Friday personally sought to deflect criticism about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, who finds herself under intensifying scrutiny for saying in 2001 that a female Hispanic judge would often reach a better decision than a
NBC Connecticut: In August 2007, Judge Sonia Sotomayor sat on a panel that ruled against an appeal in Doninger v. Niehoff. Avery Doninger was disqualified from running for school government at Lewis S. Mills High School in Burlington after she
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