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• Sotomayor Covers The December Issue of Latina [Reining Supreme]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 822
  Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor prefers red fingernails and hoop earrings? Sonia from the Block represents on newsstands starting on November 17th. [ Yahoo ]
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• Sonia Sotomayor an active questioner, unlike some we can name...

  
  Suits & Sentences — Authority: 468
  Suits & Sentences will just come right out and say it: Justice Sonia Sotomayor has already asked more oral-argument questions in a month than Justice Clarence Thomas has asked in his entire 18-year Supreme Court career. That doesnt make her a better judge, of course. But still... Its actually very hard to figure ...
  2 days ago

• Supreme Court denies stay of execution for D.C. sniper

  
  USATODAY.com Money - Block — Authority: 839
  USA Todays Joan Biskupic reports that the Supreme Court has denied a stay of execution for John Allen Muhammad, the Beltway sniper.
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• "For me, its always been taking the facts of the case and applying them to the law."

  
  Althouse — Authority: 737
  Said former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler , testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, in a hearing on his nomination to the federal district court here in the Western District of Wisconsin. He is, in what has become typical confirmation hearing ritual, asserting his faithfulness to the ...
  6 days ago

• Obamas year of vitriol and rebuff at home, deadlock abroad. Not a bad start at all | Jonathan Freedland

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 155
  Obamas victory speech at Grant Park may seem a distant mirage. But for all the failings, the president can point to real progress On that improbably warm night exactly one year ago, the crowd in Grant Park, Chicago, cheered itself hoarse as Barack Obama, the newly minted president-elect of the United States, stepped ...
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• Court of Appeals Dismisses Canadian Torture Victim’s Case

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  The Second Circuit Court of Appeals just dismissed a landmark lawsuit filed by a Canadian victim of “extraordinary rendition” against former U.S. officials, ruling that torture victims have no right to compensation from the U.S. government, even if U.S. officials were complicit in his treatment. Maher Arar is a ...
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• Full Appeals Court Rejects Suit in Rendition Case

  
  City Room — Authority: 802
  The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that Maher Arar, a Canadian man who claimed that American officials sent him to Syria in 2002 to be tortured, cannot sue for damages because Congress has not authorized such suits.
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• Hating on Goldman Sachs like Republicans hate women

  
  Norwegianity — Authority: 564
  Hmm. Just trying to remember the last time the NYTimes treated a conservative lawmaker like this. “Problem child”? Big mouth wide open? I think we’re more than ready for a new Spy . Maybe Media Matters could find a snarky illustrator to go with their stories. The Daily Beast is too sensationally ...
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• Full Appeals Court Rejects Suit in Rendition Case

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that Maher Arar, a Canadian man who claimed that American officials sent him to Syria in 2002 to be tortured, cannot sue for damages because Congress has not authorized such suits.
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• Correction and apologies | Michael Tomasky

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  I wrote a post the other day about how ridiculous the GOP senators are being about Obamas judicial appointments. I linked to a Slate piece by someone I identified as David Kendall, who was a Clinton administration lawyer. The actual writer was Doug Kendall, who is president of the Constitutional Accountability ...
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• OverturnRoe.com Group Gets Even Worse with Sotomayor Flyers

  
  Brave New Wave - Children of a Lesser Revolution — Authority: 438
  Apparently to the Overturnroe . com group to have confirmed Sotomayor was to have confirmed Roe V. Wade. A part of the American democracy is the freedom to disagree with the political institutions of the nation, but in a nation where open dialogue, criticism, and challenges are legal there should be no need to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sonia Sotomayor Vogue Magazine Photo Spread By Annie Leibovitz

  
  ipiko — Authority: 155
  In an interview with Katie Couric during the California Women’s Conference on Tuesday, legendary shutterbug Annie Leibovitz revealed that she is about to photograph Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor for an upcoming pictorial in Vogue Magazine . Leibovitz recently took the first official White House photograph ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sonia Sotomayor Vogue Magazine Photo Spread By Annie Leibovitz

  
  Pop Crunch — Authority: 717
  In an interview with Katie Couric during the California Women’s Conference on Tuesday, legendary shutterbug Annie Leibovitz revealed that she is about to photograph Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor for an upcoming pictorial in Vogue Magazine . Leibovitz recently snapped the first official White House ...
  2 weeks ago

• Remembering Sue Ann Shay, SND, '58

  
  President's Blog — Authority: 410
  Occasionally on lifes journey, we are fortunate to cross paths with someone so extraordinary that we find ourselves walking along the way with her, heedless of direction but feeling that, somehow, we must be heading to the right place.  Before I met Sue Ann Shay in 1988 — before I became Trinitys president, but ...
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• Conan OBrien uncovers President Obamas sexist agenda

  
  TV Squad — Authority: 719
  "Girls need to shop for clothes. Period." Words of wisdom from our president. The crack editing staff at The Tonight Show with Conan OBrien has created an amazing clip of President Obama putting women in their place. They took an interview Obama recently gave to NBC news and edited it so its just a full minute ...
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• Forfeiture Laws, the War of Drugs, and Alvarez v. Smith, an important case that will affect the constitutional property rights of many people around the country but has failed to attract the attention it deserves.

  
  Count Us Out — Authority: 149
  “In Alvarez, the federal Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that it was unconstitutional for Chicago police to seize cars and other property and hold it for many months at a time a without giving the owners any chance challenge the seizure. The Illinois Drug Asset Forfeiture Procedure Act (DAFPA) allows the ...
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• Obama says ‘all male’ basketball game didn’t have gender bias message

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Washington, Oct. 25 (ANI): President Barack Obama has clarified that his hosting an ‘all male’ basketball game with Cabinet secretaries and congressmen at the White House didn’t have any gender bias undertones.“I don’t think it sends any kind of message or signal whatsoever,” the New York Times quoted him, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Justice Sotomayor mystery

  
  Terribly Write — Authority: 142
  It’s a mystery to me how the writer on Yahoo! Health  could misspell Justice Sotomayor’s name and refer her as Judge here: and here: Posted in Errors of Fact, Misspellings, Titles, Wrong words Tagged: factual error, Justice, misspelled celebrities, misspelling, Sonia Sotomayor, title, Yahoo!, Yahoo! ...
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• Do Clothes Make The Woman?

  
  Cutting Through The Fog — Authority: 472
  Does anyone remember how vicious the press was when it was learned the the Republican National Committee had outfitted Sarah Palin during last years campaigning?Well, I guess the mainstream press has had a change of heart since then. Apparently, there is no outrage in the fact that this White House busily outfitted ...
  3 weeks ago

• Obama’s Newest Racemongering Judge: California’s Edward Chen

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 501
  President Obama has gone out of his way to “diversify” the federal bench with his spate of nominations of various minorities chief of which was his successful seating of the “wise Latina,’ Sonia Sotomayor, on the Supreme Court. Obama’s nominees* for 10 district court openings include four African-Americans, ...
  3 weeks ago

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