Word: sonia
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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...
...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...
...Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court is a historic milestone for Latinos, but it resonates well beyond Hispanic pride. It is perhaps the most potent symbol yet of a 21st century rapprochement between the U.S.'s two largest minorities, Latino Americans and African Americans, who in the 20th century could be as violently distrustful of each other as blacks and whites were...
...Miami: "Ethnic tensions won't be ended by one Supreme Court nomination, but the picture of an African-American President standing with a Latina Supreme Court nominee shows the groups coming together at the highest positions in the country. That can't help but improve relations." (View pictures of Sonia Sotomayor: "The Making of a Judge...
...favor of the city. In February 2008, Sotomayor was part of a three-judge panel that upheld the lower court's decision. Four months later, she was part of a 7-6 majority that decided not to rehear the case before the full appeals court. (See pictures of Judge Sonia Sotomayor...