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When physician and CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta spurned President Obama's offer to become U.S. surgeon general, the White House resumed its search for qualified candidates to fill a role Obama called "America's leading spokesperson on issues of public health." On July 13, the President finally tapped Alabama...
Washington politics may not be good at producing health-care reform, but it's great at creating catchy new lingo. Getting "Borked." "Hanging chads." "Lipsticks on pit bulls." The latest is "wise Latina," two words that have been repeated ad nauseam since the middle of May, when conservatives started flogging...
At the July 14 hearing, the nominee explained that "wise Latina" was her attempt to play off a quote by retired justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who said that "both men and women were equally capable of being wise and fair judges." Sotomayor said that "my play fell flat. It...
6 | Minnesota AT LONG LAST, A WINNER Nearly eight months, 2.4 million votes, a recount, two appeals and $50 million in election spending is all it took to get Al Franken elected U.S. Senator from Minnesota. The longest race in the state's history came to an end when the...
Monica Youn, an attorney in the Democracy Program of NYU's nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice, presents this study of Judge Sonia Sotomayor's record. To contextualize Sotomayor's decisions and inform the ongoing debate over the U.S. Supreme Court nominee's purported history of "judicial activism," Youn looked at...