Word: sonia
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Barack Obama has never hidden his passion for sports, whether it be opining on the shortcomings of the college football Bowl Championship Series or defending his picks for the NCAA college basketball tournament. So perhaps it should have come as no surprise that in announcing his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, the President singled out the federal appeals court judge's landmark 1995 ruling that effectively ended the 232-day baseball strike. "Some say that Judge Sotomayor saved baseball," Obama said on Tuesday. That may be an exaggeration, of course, but there are many baseball observers...
...Florida Coastal School of Law. "She assured that fair collective bargaining would take place under the labor laws." A few days later, a three-judge panel from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Sotomayor's injunction, and baseball played a 144-game season in 1995. (Read "Judge Sonia Sotomayor Headed for Easy Supreme Court Nomination...
Read "High Court Politics: Why Obama Picked Sonia Sotomayor...
...introducing Sonia Sotomayor as his nominee for the Supreme Court, President Obama was careful to stress that the Appeals Court judge had already been confirmed twice by the Senate in the 1990s. But while the first of those confirmations went remarkably smoothly, the second was held up by the same kind of partisan warfare that many observers are bracing...
...they feared she was being lined up for a spot on the Supreme Court. It took a piece of congressional sleight of hand to hold up that nomination for over a year, but in the end, the Republicans had to cave, and Sotomayor was approved. (See pictures of Judge Sonia Sotomayor...