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President Obama warned yesterday against “attempting to draw old battle lines and playing the usual political games” during the consideration of his nominee to the Supreme Court, and he urged senators to get to work on the nomination without delay.
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NEW YORK — Last November, soon after Barack Obama was elected president, a close friend of Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s was hospitalized on Long Island because of a series of strokes.
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Judge Sonia Sotomayor has heard thousands of cases and has issued as many rulings in her nearly two decades on the federal bench, but the early debate over her judicial philosophy in her Supreme Court confirmation battle comes down to one paragraph.
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The killer at middle age lives in a stately, terra-cotta-colored Georgian colonial on the same Baltimore block as a former U.S. senator.
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Not a dry eye in the East Room. Who could doubt that it was Sonia Sotomayor’s poignant personal story that persuaded President Obama to name the daughter of Puerto Ricans, raised in public housing, to the highest court in the land?
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The glass ceiling isn’t just a social problem.
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First came the breaking-news e-mail alert: President Obama would appoint Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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WASHINGTON — Republicans are divided over how aggressively to go after Sonia Sotomayor, a family feud about the tone of the debate over confirming the first Hispanic on the Supreme Court.
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WASHINGTON — Sen. Jeff Sessions has made a career of speaking out and voting against anyone he considers an activist liberal judge. Sonia Sotomayor was no exception the last time they crossed paths.
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NEW YORK — Relatives of Sept. 11 victims say they’re angry that the Justice Department is supporting the Saudi royal family’s bid to be removed from a 9/11 lawsuit.
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