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...President Obama has just nominated Sonia Sotomayor to be a Supreme Court Justice. What are your thoughts on that? Well, it's a disaster. She's the most liberal of the candidates he could've picked. Fortunately, she's taking the place of Souter - who was a liberal himself, but he wasn't near as extreme as she is. (See pictures of Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination...
...Another question on current events: The California Supreme Court has ruled to uphold Proposition 8, which bans gay marriage. What are your thoughts on that? Well, I think the will of the people in California was clear. This was a popular referendum, highly publicized and voted on by millions of Californians, and I think the court ought to leave the decision of the people alone. (See a visual history of the gay-rights movement...
...Manhattan judge who grew up hooked on Perry Mason and took just 15 minutes to end the 1995 baseball strike is President Obama's choice to replace retiring Justice David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court. Sonia Sotomayor, who would be the first Latino on the high court, emerged from a more hardscrabble background than have most jurists who reach the top rungs of America's legal system. Sotomayor, 54, was raised by Puerto Rican parents in a South Bronx housing project a few miles from the old Yankee Stadium. Her father, a tool-and-die maker who died when...
Supporters say Sotomayor would bring much needed passion and real-world experience to the Supreme Court, while detractors claim she bullies attorneys from the bench and lacks intellectual firepower. A divorced food buff who listens to soft rock, Sotomayor once reportedly joked about the ease of filling out financial-disclosure forms on her relatively modest judicial salary: "When you don't have money, it's easy. There isn't anything there to report...
...Chinese Basketball Association league are uninspiring, hampered by poor coaching and a system focused more on rote drills than innovative play. Street play has picked up in recent years in Beijing and Shanghai, but that has yet to translate into a flood of dynamic national players. Despite its home-court advantage in Beijing last year, the Chinese Olympic hoops team made it only to the quarterfinal round before getting trounced by Lithuania...