Word: sotomayor
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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...
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...
...Read Mark Halperin's take on Sotomayor's upcoming confirmation battle...
...overcome the odds, lived out the American Dream that brought her parents here so long ago. And even as she has accomplished so much in her life, she has never forgotten where she began, never lost touch with the community that supported her." - President Obama, announcing his nomination of Sotomayor to the Supreme Court...