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 Sorry, 
 Glenn Beck: 
 Senate 
 Confirms 
 Sunstein 

57-40 vote goes mostly along party lines

Sep 11, 09 9:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Cass Sunstein, President Obama’s nominee for a bureaucratic White House post, has been confirmed in a 57-40 Senate vote largely along party lines, Politico reports. Sunstein, who will monitor federal regulations as director of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, has been under attack by conservatives... More »

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Senate • White House • animal rights • hunting • Glenn Beck • nominee • President Obama • confirmation vote • end-of-life care • Cass Sunstein

(Newser) - President Obama is still missing more than half his team after 7 months in the Oval Office, the New York Times reports. Facing a grueling confirmation process for appointees, the president has filled only 43% of more than 500 top policymaking positions that require Senate approval. Planning to reform financial... More »

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White House • nominee • political appointee • President Obama

 Senate Confirms Sotomayor 


Aug 6, 09 2:36 PM CDT
(AP) - The Senate confirmed Sonia Sotomayor today as the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court. The vote was 68-31 for Sotomayor, President Barack Obama's first high court nominee. She becomes the 111th justice and just the third woman to serve. Democrats praised the 55-year-old Sotomayor as a mainstream moderate. But... More »

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Senate • Senate confirmation hearings • nominee • US Supreme Court • Obama administration • President Obama • Sonia Sotomayor • women's issues • confirmation vote

(Newser) - In an indication that conservative Republicans are uniting against Sonia Sotomayor, Senate Judiciary Committee members John Cornyn and Orrin Hatch today pledged to vote against her, CNN reports. Though moderate Republicans worry opposition could hurt the party with Hispanics, the conservative base has lobbied hard against the Supreme Court nominee.... More »

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Texas • Senate Judiciary Committee • Senate Republicans • Utah • John Cornyn • Orrin Hatch • nominee • confirmation hearings • US Supreme Court • Obama administration • Sonia Sotomayor

UPDATED


 Sotomayor Wins 
 Republicans' Backing 

She's shown 'judicial temperament': statement

Jul 17, 09 12:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - Richard Lugar said today he’ll back Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court bid, making him the first GOP senator to do so, the Washington Post reports. Mel Martinez of Florida, the chamber's sole Republican Latino, quickly followed suit. “Judge Sotomayor has demonstrated a judicial temperament during her week-long nomination... More »

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Florida • GOP • Indiana • Richard Lugar • Senate Republicans • justice • Mel Martinez • nominee • confirmation hearings • US Supreme Court • Sonia Sotomayor

(Newser) - The 2012 presidential race is heating up—at least in a Gallup poll of Republican voters. CQ Politics looks at the results, which have former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney out front, with 26% saying he should top the GOP ticket. Sarah Palin snags 21%, Mike Huckabee gets 19%, and Newt... More »

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Mitt Romney • Newt Gingrich • GOP • Mike Huckabee • nominee • Republican presidential primaries • Sarah Palin • Gallup poll • opinion polls • Election 2012

(AP) - Republicans cleared the way today for a Senate vote next month to confirm Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, placing her firmly in line to become the first Hispanic justice. "I look forward to you getting that vote before we recess in August," said Jeff Sessions, the senior Republican... More »

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Senate Judiciary Committee • GOP • Jeff Sessions • Senate Republicans • vote • nominee • confirmation hearings • US Supreme Court • Sonia Sotomayor

analysis

These Hearings Are All About the Next Nominee


Jul 15, 09 9:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - Three days, no bombshells: Sonia Sotomayor is a done deal for the Supreme Court. The humdrum proceedings still have value, however, write Peter Baker and Charlie Savage in the New York Times. It's all about the next nominee, and that could be a much bigger fight. If nothing else, Republicans... More »

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Jeff Sessions • Senate confirmation hearings • nominee • US Supreme Court • Sonia Sotomayor

CONFIRMATION HEARINGS

 Sotomayor's 
 Inspiration? 
 Perry Mason 


Jul 15, 09 2:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sonia Sotomayor’s zeal for the law comes from the tube, the Los Angeles Times reports. The former prosecutor credits for her conversion a Perry Mason episode where the titular defense attorney “proved his client innocent and got the actual murderer to confess,” the Supreme Court nominee told... More »

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television • prosecutor • Amy Klobuchar • Senate confirmation hearings • nominee • US Supreme Court • Sonia Sotomayor • Raymond Burr • Perry Mason

(Newser) - Say what you will about Sonia Sotomayor, the woman has a great laugh. Her second day of testimony brought the nominee's personality into clearer focus, writes Ann Gerhart in the Washington Post. In addition to a sense of humor, exemplified in that "big, full-throated laugh," we learned she's... More »

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(Newser) - Day 2 of Sonia Sotomayor's Senate confirmation hearings have wrapped up, with the all-but-certain nominee disagreeing at one point with President Obama's assertion in 2007 that a judge's "heart" is important in rulings, reports Politico. “I wouldn’t approach the issue of judging in the way the president... More »

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Senate • nominee • confirmation hearings • US Supreme Court • Sonia Sotomayor • Latina

(Newser) - After listening to senators air their issues for most of the day,  Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor finally got the microphone at the end of her confirmation hearing today, telling senators she would serve the “larger interest of impartial justice," the AP reports. Sotomayor also took an... More »

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justice • judge • Senate confirmation hearings • Lindsey Graham • nominee • US Supreme Court • Obama administration • Sonia Sotomayor

(Newser) - President Obama's pick to run the Justice Department's environmental unit has an impressive resume when it comes to lawsuits against giant polluters. Trouble is, say her critics, all that experience has come from working with the bad guys. Ignacia Moreno, currently an attorney for GE, has spent years defending the... More »

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environment • Department of Justice • General Electric • nominee • EPA • President Obama • Ignacia Moreno • Superfund

OPINION

 Keys to Palin's 2012 Run 

Sophia Nelson offers the candidate-to-be some sage advice

Jul 3, 09 5:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - So Sarah Palin is going to run for president, writes Sophia Nelson for the Huffington Post—her ambition, stated when she announced her resignation today, to "affect positive change from outside government,” is merely “code” for a 2012 bid. So, as a fellow Republican woman, Nelson offers... More »

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Mitt Romney • presidential campaign • GOP • conservative • nominee • presidential candidates • Sarah Palin • Election 2012

Tossed Ruling No Rebuke
to Sotomayor: Dems

Firefighter decision shows judicial 'modesty'

Jun 29, 09 3:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Democrats are struggling to paint the Supreme Court’s rejection today of an opinion by nominee Sonia Sotomayor as proof that she is, in fact, not an “activist judge,” Roll Call reports. The high court decided to reverse Sotomayor’s 2nd Circuit ruling against white New Haven firefighters... More »

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Charles Schumer • New Haven • firefighters • Connecticut • nominee • US Supreme Court • Sonia Sotomayor • reverse discrimination • 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals

 Oscars Double 
 Best-Picture 
 Nominees, to 10 

It'll give more films a chance: Academy

Jun 24, 09 2:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Next year’s Academy Awards will feature 10 contenders for Best Picture, up from five, the Los Angeles Times reports, a return to how the show ran in 1932-43. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences “is returning to some of its earlier roots, when a wider field... More »

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Academy Awards • award show • nominee • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences • Oscars • Best Picture

OPINION




 How Palin Can 
 Get the 2012 Nod 

Leave Alaska, grab a good staff, and be yourself

Jun 16, 09 11:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Don’t write off Sarah Palin as the 2012 Republican nominee: Roger Simon says she’s got what it takes to get there, with a little fine-tuning. He offers her seven steps in Politico:
  • Leave Alaska behind. Don’t run for governor in 2010; instead, hang out in the
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Republican Party • candidate • nominee • Republican candidate • presidential candidates • Sarah Palin • Election 2012

 Bush 41: Lay Off Sotomayor 


Jun 12, 09 2:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Calling Sonia Sotomayor racist for her now-infamous “wise Latina” remark “doesn't help the process,” former president George H.W. Bush tells CNN. "I don't know her that well but I think she's had a distinguished record on the bench and she should be entitled to fair... More »

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George HW Bush • nominee • racist • US Supreme Court • Sonia Sotomayor

Intelligence Pick Bows Out Over CIA Tactic Ties

Obama wanted Mudd for top Homeland Security post

Jun 5, 09 5:32 PM CDT
(AP) - President Barack Obama's pick for intelligence chief at the Homeland Security Department withdrew from consideration today amid questions about his role in the CIA's interrogations of suspected terrorists. Philip Mudd was scheduled to appear next week before senators, but notified the White House today that he was withdrawing his name... More »

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Barack Obama • torture • Department of Homeland Security • interrogation • nominee

ANALYSIS

Sotomayor Also Made 'Wise Woman' Comment in '94


Jun 3, 09 4:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - A new wrinkle in the flap over Sonia Sotomayor’s “wise Latina” comment: The Supreme Court nominee said almost exactly the same thing in 1994, reports Greg Sargent on Plum Line. Senators had a copy of the speech but made no mention of it when they confirmed her in... More »

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nominee • confirmation hearings • US Supreme Court • vacancy • Sonia Sotomayor • Latina

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