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• Connecticut Firefighters Get Supreme Court-Ordered Promotions

  
  In General Counsel — Authority: 126
  Despite the best efforts of lower court judges, including then-judge Sonia Sotomayor, the New Haven, Connecticut firefighters in the high-profile Ricci case finally were awarded their civil service promotions to either lieutenant or captain: A U.S. District Court judge, under instruction by the Supreme Court ...
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• Carly Fiorina channels Dede Scozzafava, wields race/gender card against conservative rival

  
  Michelle Malkin — Authority: 819
  Grass-roots conservatives, your attention, please: The NRCC and GOP dumped $1 million of your hard-earned money into radical Leftist Republican Dede Scozzafava’s NY-23’s campaign — money that was squandered trashing mainstream conservative candidate Doug Hoffman, who lost the race by less than 3,400 votes.Now, ...
  5 days ago

• Fiorina: I Would Have Voted for Sotomayor

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  At a breakfast with reporters this morning, California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina responded to a question about whether she would filibuster Obama nominees by saying that “elections have consequences,” but that she’d look at the nominees’ qualifications. “I did not closely follow the Sonia Sotomayor ...
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• This is Why Elections Matter

  
  HolyCoast.com — Authority: 579
  Because presidents get to appoint federal judges to lifetime positions : As consolation prizes go, Louis Butler cant complain. After being twice rejected by Wisconsin voters for a place on the state Supreme Court, the former judge has instead been nominated by President Obama to a lifetime seat on the federal ...
  1 week ago

• Lebanese Singer Sued For Racist Lyrics • Crowd Boos Sarah Palin At Book Signing [Leftovers]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 813
  • Haifa Wehbe , a famous Lebanese pop singer, has come under fire for singing a song with racist lyrics. The song is from a childrens album, and includes the line: "Where is my teddy bear and my Nubian monkey?" • Nubian representatives say that the line compares black Egyptians to monkeys, and are suing the ...
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• Spotted: Sotomayor on Smith Street

  
  Cobble Hill Blog — Authority: 473
  Politico reports a Justice Sonia Sotomayor sighting: A rare benefit of being a Brooklyn based political reporter: Michael Crowley tweets , “It’s not every night you sit down in a Brooklyn restaurant ( Po ) and notice a Supreme Court justice (Sotomayor) two tables away.” “She left her purse on a chair; ...
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• South Brooklyns Supreme Court Justice [Sonia Sotomayor]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 863
  Stalked: Sonia Sotomayor at Po on Smith Street. Someone spot her at Bar Great Harry!
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• What the Law Commands

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 530
  Thats the title of a post by Linda Greenhouse at the New York Times Opinionator blog.  LINK   As with anything the retired Times Supreme Court correspondent writes, its a must-read.  Im going to focus on one section of her post. The proof of how alike the two justices really are, of course, willlie not in their ...
  1 week ago

• What the Law Commands

  
  The Opinionator — Authority: 697
  The surprising similarities between Chief Justice John Roberts and his newest colleague, Sonia Sotomayor.
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• Reading Material -- What would Reagan do?

  
  brianlee — Authority: 136
  This is an archived article from http://www.anncoulter.com/ with some book recommendations that you can buy by clicking on the links or getting them from your closest library here http://www.worldcat.org/oclc . It is timely because of the nomination of Judge David Hamilton another Leftist judge who is up for ...
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• Sonia Sotomayor adds celebrity to U.S. Supreme Court – Syracuse Post-Standard

  
  Art Institute — Authority: 164
  Clerics crowd around Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor to greet her after the Red Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington in this photograph from In Oct
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• “I had a lot of opponents, but I never had any supporters like that.”

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 621
  Justice Alito wittily defends Justice Sotomayor. [ BLT/NLJ ] Tags: Sonia Sotomayor , Supreme Court Related posts Did Sotomayor “save baseball”? (4) Wyeth v. Levine (20) Welcome New York Times readers (1) Update: Animal rights vs. free speech (1) Twitter for 2008-09-18 (1)
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• Sotomayor Emerges as the Court’s Most Prolific Questioner

  
  JD Journal — Authority: 140
  Nobody expected her to be a wallflower, but Justice Sotomayor has exceeded expectations when it comes to questioning lawyers during oral arguments.  In a report issued by the National Law Journal, Sotomayor came out on top in the number of questions asked so far this term with 146.  Chief Justice Roberts followed ...
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• Relationships...

  
  Corrente — Authority: 626
  Pravda buries the lead: Allies [of departing White House counsel Gregory Craig] also note that he oversaw the successful confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court and praised him for trying to keep Obama in synch with some of the ideologically liberal ideas he promoted in the campaign. McClatchy ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Profile of Justice Sonia Sotomayor in Latina Magazine

  
  DISSENTING JUSTICE — Authority: 535
  Latina will profile Justice Sonia Sotomayor in its December/January issue, which becomes available on November 17. The magazine has posted a lengthy excerpt from the article on its website. Here is a snip: When Obama won the White House, the legal world hedged their bets on the brilliant judge with the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Federalist Society Convention Kicks Off With Call to Oppose Obama Judge Picks

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 747
  Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) kicked off the annual Federalist Society convention today with a call to oppose President Obama’s liberal nominees for the federal judiciary, Legal Times reports . “We are in a long and difficult fight,” Sessions told the gathering of leading conservative lawyers, judges and law ...
  2 weeks ago

• Carrie Prejean: Completely Inappropriate and Unprofessional

  
  Woman Tribune — Authority: 134
  So Carrie Prejean somehow got a book deal. I don’t know exactly how she accomplished this, perhaps she told Regnery Press that she would sue them if they didn’t agree to publish a memoir of more of her whining about fighting gossip that she put out in the world herself to be found and about hate and political ...
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• Justice Sonia Sotomayor says: "the problem with every test is that you can find an exception that makes the application ridiculous."

  
  Althouse — Authority: 749
  Doesnt that just make you want to think of a rule that does not require an exception to avoid ridiculousness? Then arent you intrigued by the paradox that you will have just come up with an exception to her rule (about the need for exceptions to avoid ridiculousness), and that will simultaneously support and ...
  2 weeks ago

• ACTION ALERT: Tell Your Senator to Filibuster Judge David Hamilton

  
  brianlee — Authority: 136
  A current action alert from www.redstate.com on a judicial nominee. Tell Your Senator to Filibuster Judge David Hamilton Senator Jeff Sessions is calling on his colleagues to filibuster Judge David Hamilton. Call or e-mail your Senator. Tell your Senator to oppose cloture on Judge Hamilton and support ...
  2 weeks ago

• Justice Sotomayor Gets Candid in Decembers Latina

  
  Blogamole — Authority: 501
  How much do you know about Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor? The Justice is featured in the December issue of Latina where the mag outlines Sotomayors feelings on marriage, love, her desire to pull her name from consideration weeks before President Obamas nomination, and how shes keeping it Latina in the ...
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