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 62% Want 
 Sotomayor 
 on Court: Poll 

Nominee's politics 'about right'

Jun 28, 09 8:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Some 62% of Americans want Sonia Sotomayor confirmed to the high court, with 55% saying her place in the political spectrum is "about right," the Washington Post reports. Her numbers, however, vary on partisan lines: About eight in 10 Dems and two-thirds of independents want her on the... More »

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poll • confirmation hearings • US Supreme Court • Sonia Sotomayor

 Court: Defendants  
 Can Question  
 Crime Lab 

Scientists must be brought to court

Jun 26, 09 9:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - A 5-4 Supreme Court ruling yesterday gives defendants the chance to face authors of crime lab reports in their cases. Prosecutors who want to use lab testing undertaken for a given case will be required to bring its authors to court, where the defense can confront them. The ruling shows... More »

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Antonin Scalia • Anthony Kennedy • US Supreme Court • defense • criminal prosecution • crime lab • defendant

(AP) - An Arizona middle school's strip search of a teenage girl accused of having prescription-strength ibuprofen was illegal, the Supreme Court ruled today. School officials violated the law with their search of Savana Redding, the justices said in an 8-1 ruling. Redding, who now attends college, was 13 when school officials... More »

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Arizona • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Constitution • John Paul Stevens • Fourth Amendment • strip search • Clarence Thomas • US Supreme Court • Savana Redding

(Newser) - Today’ non-decision by the Supreme Court on Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is actually a stern repudiation, Tom Goldstein writes for SCOTUSblog. Reading between the lines, Goldstein surmises that the court will strike down Section 5 when the next challenge comes if Congress does not significantly alter it... More »

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Congress • legislation • Voting Rights Act • US Supreme Court • constitutionality • opinion • racial discrimination • Section 5

(AP) - The Supreme Court ruled narrowly today in a challenge to the Voting Rights Act, exempting a small Texas district from a key provision of the law, but side-stepping the larger constitutional issue. The act requires Southern areas with a history of discrimination to get advance federal approval before changing election... More »

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Valerie Plame • Alaska • lawsuit • Voting Rights Act • US Supreme Court • civil rights movement • special education

Sotomayor Proves Poor Lightning Rod for GOP

Nominee fight doesn't boost fundraising

Jun 22, 09 8:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - After nearly a month in the public eye, Sonia Sotomayor isn’t proving nearly as controversial as Republicans had hoped, Politico reports. “She doesn’t have the punch out there in terms of fundraising and recruiting, at least so far," said Republican congressman John Thune. Things could change... More »

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Senate Republicans • Senate confirmation hearings • US Supreme Court • Republican strategy • Sonia Sotomayor

ANALYSIS

Obama May Soon Face Decisions on Death Penalty

Cases might alter president's support for narrow use of executions

Jun 21, 09 12:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - As if reviving the economy, reforming health care, taming North Korea, and forging relations with Iran weren’t challenges enough, President Obama may soon have to deal with the death penalty. Within months, the cases of six federal death-row inmates, all black and all convicted of capital murder, could land... More »

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death penalty • Barack Obama • capital punishment • US Supreme Court • Eric Holder • defendant

 Sotomayor Quits Elite 
 Women-Only Club 

Republicans say Belizean Grove membership violates judicial code

Jun 20, 09 3:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sonia Sotomayor has ended her membership in an exclusive women-only club following pressure from GOP lawmakers, Politico reports. Senators suggested the Supreme Court nominee's membership in the Belizean Grove—a 120-strong club of influential women that hosts annual Latin American retreats—violated codes of conduct banning judges from belonging to... More »

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women • sex discrimination • US Supreme Court • Sonia Sotomayor • Belizean Grove

Supremes Make Age-Bias Suits Harder to Prove

Ruling puts burden of proof on workers

Jun 19, 09 9:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Workers who sue their employers for age discrimination will find their cases much harder to win under a Supreme Court ruling issued yesterday, the Los Angeles Times reports. The court, in a 5-4 decision, ruled that it is up to employees who believe they were fired or demoted because of... More »

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employer • bias • US Supreme Court • age discrimination

(AP) - The Supreme Court said today that convicts have no constitutional right to test DNA evidence in hopes of proving their innocence long after they were found guilty of a crime. The court ruled 5-4, with the conservative justices in the majority, against William Osborne, an Alaska man convicted in a... More »

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John Roberts • DNA • John Paul Stevens • US Supreme Court • DNA evidence • evidence • William Osborne

OPINION

Sotomayor Will Tilt Court to
Left: Rosen

Dissents shows her boldly liberal on civil liberties, economy

Jun 17, 09 2:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sonia Sotomayor will certainly sway the Supreme Court to the left, writes Jeffrey Rosen in the New Republic, offering an analysis of her decisions that obviously attempts to make up for his earlier, widely excoriated takedown before Sotomayor got the nod from President Obama—and before he had a studied... More »

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Antonin Scalia • judge • US Supreme Court • President Obama • Sonia Sotomayor • Jeffrey Rosen

(Newser) - The Supreme Court has refused to hear a challenge to the completion of the border fence between the US and Mexico, Fox News reports. Environmental groups, an Indian tribe, and the city of El Paso brought the challenge, contending that a fence will cut off access to the Rio Grande... More »

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Texas • Mexico • Department of Homeland Security • Michael Chertoff • El Paso • border fence • US Supreme Court • American Indian • Ysleta del Sur Pueblo tribe

 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

OPINION

Sotomayor Has Precious Little Liberal Cred

No way to know if would-be justice is a social progressive

Jun 10, 09 11:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - All the talk about race has obscured what, for liberals, ought to be the central question about Sonia Sotomayor: Is she progressive enough? There’s precious little evidence either way, writes Dayo Olopade of The Root. Sotomayor’s 2nd Circuit court leans conservative and handles mostly commercial cases; she’s... More »

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US Supreme Court • liberal • progressive • Sonia Sotomayor

 Sotomayor 'Tough 
 as Nails': Brother 

Calls them 'derogatory' and 'off-base,' praises sister in interview

Jun 10, 09 11:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sonia Sotomayor’s brother considers criticism of his sister “insulting, derogatory, off-base," the Supreme Court nominee's only sibling tells Good Morning America. “Angry is just the beginning” of how he feels about the attacks, Juan Sotomayor said, calling Sonia a “wonderful woman” and “the perfect... More »

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racism • Good Morning America • US Supreme Court • interview • Sonia Sotomayor • Juan Sotomayor

 Sotomayor Confirmation  
 Hearings Start July 13 

Senate judiciary chair: it's a 'reasonable schedule'

Jun 9, 09 11:40 AM CDT
(AP) - Confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor will convene on July 13, says the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman. Patrick Leahy said the date represents a "reasonable schedule" that would give committee members several more weeks to prepare. President Obama has urged the Senate to vote before it leaves... More »

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Congress • Senate • Senate Judiciary Committee • Patrick Leahy • Senate confirmation hearings • confirmation hearings • US Supreme Court • Sonia Sotomayor

(Newser) - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg today put a temporary stay on the sale of Chrysler to Italian automaker Fiat, SCOTUSBlog reports. Ginsburg’s motion allows the justices to further consider the matter, and either postpone the sale or let it go forward. A full postponement of the sale would... More »

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Chrysler • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • bankruptcy • mergers and acquisitions • auto industry • US Supreme Court • sale • Fiat

Court: Elected Judges Can't Rule on Major Donors

Kennedy gives opinion in 5-4 decision

Jun 8, 09 10:26 AM CDT
(AP) - The Supreme Court ruled today that elected judges must recuse themselves from cases when large campaign contributions from interested parties create the appearance of bias. By a 5-4 vote in a case from West Virginia, the court said that a judge who remained involved in a lawsuit filed against his... More »

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Anthony Kennedy • trial • judge • West Virginia • bias • US Supreme Court • campaign donors

(AP) - The Supreme Court has turned down a challenge to the Defense Department policy forbidding gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military, granting a request by the Obama administration. The court won't hear an appeal from Army Capt. James Pietrangelo II, who was dismissed under the "don't ask,... More »

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Barack Obama • gay rights • Don't Ask, Don't Tell • US Supreme Court • Defense Dept

ANALYSIS

Similar Lives Led Sotomayor, Thomas Down Different Paths

On and off the bench, they often work at cross-purposes

Jun 7, 09 11:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - The lives of Sonia Sotomayor and Clarence Thomas have parallels—humble beginnings, fatherless childhoods, Yale Law, affirmative action—but their conclusions are contrary. “For the first time, the Supreme Court would include two minority judges, but ones who stand at opposite poles of thinking about race, identity, and opportunity,... More »

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race • affirmative action • Clarence Thomas • US Supreme Court • ethnic diversity • Sonia Sotomayor

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