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Sotomayor's nomination battle began in 1997, five years after President George H.W. Bush, following the suggestion of New York Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, nominated her to the Southern District Court of New York. With a minimum of political fuss, she became the first Hispanic federal judge in the state. Nominated to the Appeals Court by President Bill Clinton in the summer of 1997, she was overwhelmingly approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee - including its then chairman, Republican Orrin Hatch of Utah. But Mississippi's Trent Lott, then the GOP leader, prevented the full Senate from taking...
...also didn't hurt that she's been through the Senate confirmation process twice before - as George H.W. Bush's nominee to the Southern District Court of New York in 1992 and Bill Clinton's to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1998. The White House official notes that Orrin Hatch - the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee as well as the chamber's most influential GOP voice on judicial nominations - voted for Sotomayor both times. (See TIME's photo-essay on Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination...
...regime says or does is meant simply to up the ante in negotiations and get the U.S. and its negotiating partners to sweeten their offerings. This conviction is widely shared among career diplomats in Seoul as well, and they joined their State Department colleagues in outrage when the Bush Administration at first took a confrontational approach with the DPRK. Bush's hard-line stance, the critics believe, prompted Pyongyang to kick-start nuclear-weapon production. Intelligence analysts in Washington and Seoul believe that North Korea increased its total arsenal from one or two nukes to seven or eight during Bush...
...Bush eventually overhauled his approach to the North entirely, and even after the launch of the long-range missile early last month, the Obama Administration was still dangling the possibility of eventual direct talks with the North - if Kim would first return to the multilateral six-party format in Beijing. On Korea, Obama heads the most openly dovish Administration in Washington since Jimmy Carter's. Yet the North's rhetoric since he was inaugurated has been vitriolic. It says it believes the U.S.'s "hostile policy toward the DPRK remains unchanged." (Read "North Korea Launch Poses Problem for Obama...
...Putin is not known for his tact when speaking of Russia's western neighbor, which declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. In April 2008, a source told Russia's Kommersant newspaper how Putin described Ukraine to George Bush at a NATO meeting in Bucharest: "You don't understand, George, that Ukraine is not even a state. What is Ukraine? Part of its territories is Eastern Europe, but the greater part is a gift from...