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GOP 'umpire' blows call on Sotomayor
The SwampOne of the more curious - and flawed - lines of attack by Republicans against the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court is to raise doubts about whether she would be a fair "umpire" of legal disputes. Jurist-as-umpire is an attractive...Tags: American League, Court Administration, Parliament, Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution
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Sotomayor quits all-women's club
The Swampby Mark Silva Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, said today that she has resigned from an elite all-women's club after Republicans questioned her participation in it. Sotomayor says she resigned from the...Tags: Trials, Court Administration, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, National Government
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Firefighters: Sotomayor's benchmark?
The Swampby James Oliphant The Supreme Court's reversal Monday of a discrimination ruling involving a group of white Connecticut firefighters has provided critics of high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor with some fresh ammunition. Republican senators and...Tags: Trials, Fires, Court Administration, Disasters and Accidents, Parliament
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Immigration votes lacking: White House
The Swampby Peter Nicholas and Peter Wallsten White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said today that there is not enough support in Congress now to pass a comprehensive immigration bill providing a path to citizenship for the nation's illegal immigrants,......Tags: Election Day, Immigration, Howard Lawrence Berman, National or Ethnic Minorities, Minority Groups
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On Jeff Sessions: 'Tell Me More'
The Swampby Mark Silva J. Gerald Hebert, a former senior trial attorney in the Civil Rights division of the Department of Justice, was one of the voices who derailed Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III in his bid for a federal judgeship in......Tags: Edward M. Kennedy, Parliament, National or Ethnic Minorities, Civil Rights, California
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Judge Sonia: Herb Kohl gets no respect
Spin CycleAfter Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) led off in the questioning of Judge Sonia Sotomayor focusing on her infamous "wise Latina" comment and her opinion on the contentious New Haven firefighter and Washington, D.C., gun......Tags: Kohl's Illinois, Inc., U.S. Senate, Satellite and Cable Service, Patrick Leahy, Herb Kohl
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Judge Sonia: Rhetorical flourish fell flat
Spin CycleAfter repeated questioning on her "wise Latina" quotation by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), left, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor bends in her defense of her words, that she was trying to inspire young Latinos that their life experiences would......Tags: National or Ethnic Minorities, Getty Images Inc., Social Issues, Patrick Leahy, Minority Groups
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Judge Sonia: Ethnicity as theme, and battleground
Spin CycleThe question was never whether, but always how, ethnicity would come up. The answer is that the emotional implications of ethnicity have threaded their way through the confirmation hearings of Judge Sonia Sotomayor. The first African-American president,...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, National or Ethnic Minorities, Minority Groups, Barack Obama, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Sotomayor hearing: The morning spin
The Swampby James Oliphant The Judiciary Committee has cranked up the hearing again after a lunch break.(I had a cobb salad.) Because of the 12-7 imbalance on the committee, the Republicans are done speaking for the moment. Right now, Delaware's senator,......Tags: Al Franken, National Government, Orrin Hatch, Sonia Sotomayor, Delaware
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Sotomayor hearing live analysis: Day 3
The SwampSonia Sotomayor continues her testimony Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee (Win McNamee/Getty Images) by James Oliphant We're back at Hart 216 for the third day of the Sotomayor Supreme Court hearings. Stay here for real time analysis during....Tags: Al Franken, Abortion Issue, Disasters and Accidents, Parliament, Constitutional Issues
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Sotomayor: Sessions comes out swinging
The Swampby James Oliphant Much of the speculation surrounding the Sotomayor hearings has centered on the role that will be played by Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee. This is Sessions' first confirmation hearing of any kind......Tags: Fires, Court Administration, Crime, Law and Justice, Disasters and Accidents, National Government
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Naked Ambition
Spin CycleWhich was the most fevered lunge for self-promotion? 1. Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford) calling the late pop star Michael Jackson a pedophile, a pervert and a lowlife. 2. Rev. Al Sharpton claiming a ???disrespectful double standard??? in media coverage of.......Tags: Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Sonia Sotomayor, Al Sharpton
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