Word: sotomayor
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Christopher Caldwell's Viewpoint on Judge Sonia Sotomayor and affirmative action reflected a lack of insight. I graduated recently as the only Latina in my medical-school class, and understand, in a way Caldwell will never be able to, that the stories of President Obama, Sotomayor and myself are possible only because of the propping up of affirmative-action laws by empathetic judges...
...popular man with Democrats. While he wouldn't consider signing on to health care reform, he got together with Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, to co-sponsor an alternative health care bill. He crossed party lines to become the sole Republican supporter in the Judiciary Committee of Sonia Sotomayor, Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court. And he's been reaching out to Dems on social security reform and immigration - an issue expected to be tackled next year. Do a search on Congress's legislative database and more than 200 hits come up for bipartisan amendments and resolutions...
...this view, and several Justices suggested somewhat humorously that if the Bilski argument were to proceed, a number of other ludicrous patents could be issued. Justice Antonin Scalia asked if under Bilski's argument, methods of horse-training could be patented, while the court's newest member, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, asked if a "method of speed-dating" was patentable...
King came from a long line of debaters, documented back to his grandfather who won a two volume history of the French Revolution for winning the LaHaye Seminary’s debating prize in April of 1899. Bredehoft debated successfully for Spellman High School in the Bronx, where Justice Sotomayor went, although they didn’t overlap...
...Supreme Court begins its new term on Oct. 5--its first with Obama-appointed Justice Sonia Sotomayor on the bench--and legal observers are watching this session closely to see if conservative Justices move more forcefully to override their liberal counterparts. Arguments will be heard on cases involving corporate political donations, antitrust complaints brought against the NFL, and First Amendment issues concerning the sale of videos depicting animal cruelty...