Tuesday, June 30th
Politico reports:
In awarding a victory Monday to a group of white firefighters in New Haven who argued that they were denied promotions on account of their race, the U.S. Supreme Court also seemed to deal a blow to President Barack Obama’s pending nominee for the high court, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who earlier had ruled against [...]
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Monday, June 29th
From Roll Call:
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Sunday said the Senate needs more time to review the record of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor after new material surfaced from her time with the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund.
“Just a day or so ago, we discovered that there are 300 or [...]
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Friday, June 26th
From The New York Times:
Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the senior Republican on the Judiciary Committee, sharply criticized Judge Sonia Sotomayor on Thursday, accusing her of relying too heavily on international law in her opinions, which he said raised doubts in his mind about how she would interpret the Constitution as a member of the [...]
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Thursday, June 25th
The New York Times reports:
As a drug kingpin and his bodyguard, both black, faced the first death penalty trial in Manhattan since the days of the Rosenbergs, their lawyers argued that the practice of capital punishment was racist.
“We’re doing what the death penalty has always done historically, which is target minority people,” one of the [...]
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Thursday, June 25th
From the Argus Leader:
Sen. John Thune said he’s keeping an open mind on whether to support Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court. But he’s sounding like someone who won’t vote for her.
The South Dakota Republican met with the federal appeals court judge from New York on Wednesday morning and told reporters afterward he [...]
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