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What is the message you stand for? Your place in the world? When you asked what I've been doing for the past year - besides making this record, I was living alone for the first time since I've moved out of my parents' home as a teenager. During the course of writing this record, I did that. That transformation made me understand the importance of change - that I want to be a better person, a better version of me. That's not talking about ethics or morality. I just want to be the best me there...
There are a record number of contestants this year, and thousands of people tune in to watch the bee on ESPN. Why do you think it remains so popular...
...statement on Tuesday, Kyl congratulated Sotomayor on her nomination, adding that he would "take great care in examining her record to ensure that she demonstrates personal integrity, a commitment to the rule of law and a judicial temperament." He hinted that the nomination process would not be short. "When Samuel Alito was first nominated [in 2005], the minority was afforded 93 days before he received a confirmation vote," he said. "I would expect that Senate Democrats will afford the minority the same courtesy as we move forward with this process...
...course, the judicial-confirmation process can take surprising turns, as Senators delve more deeply into the background of a nominee. (Perhaps you've heard of Clarence Thomas?) Which is why Senate Republicans want to give this one a lot of time. "We will thoroughly examine her record to ensure she understands that the role of a jurist in our democracy is to apply the law evenhandedly, despite their own feelings or personal or political preferences," Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement that could be read as cautious or ominous. "Our Democratic colleagues have often remarked that...
When David Souter was nominated by George H.W. Bush to the Supreme Court, the jurist had so little in the way of a record of past rulings that people called him "the stealth nominee." There's no such problem with Sonia Sotomayor, the woman Barack Obama just chose to replace Souter on the court. The same President Bush picked her to be a federal district judge in 1991, just a year after he elevated Souter, so she will come to her confirmation hearings not just as the child of Puerto Rican parents who went from public housing to Princeton...