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		<title>Asked and answered: Coverage of Sotomayor&#8217;s questioning wasn&#8217;t exactly must-see TV</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frazier Moore</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — The most eye-catching thing about Tuesday&#8217;s TV coverage of the Sotomayor hearings? The bright red jacket worn by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor for her second day before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The cardinal hue of the nominee&#8217;s attire didn&#8217;t minimize, or upstage, the gravity of the occasion: her questioning for confirmation to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor on Sotomayor: Silent no more, Supreme Court nominee revises and extends past remarks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — It&#8217;s a good thing Sonia Sotomayor speaks Sotomayoran.

After week upon week in which plenty of other people on the planet interpreted Sotomayor&#8217;s past comments, the Supreme Court nominee at last got a chance to deconstruct her own words Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Fingers splayed, palms flat, hands bouncing up and then deliberately [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FACT CHECK: Leahy tweaks words to take edge off Sotomayor quote in confirmation hearings</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — In endorsing Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy did some creative rewriting of history. And he put quote marks around it.

Trying to head off criticism of a controversial comment, Leahy misquoted Sotomayor&#8217;s own words in kicking off the second day of her confirmation hearings.
Sotomayor&#8217;s public comments are as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor denies racial bias in &#8216;wise Latina&#8217; remark under questioning at confirmation hearing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor firmly denied racial bias Tuesday at her Senate confirmation hearing and said an oft-criticized remark about her Hispanic heritage affecting judicial decisions was a rhetorical device gone awry.

An attempted play on words &#8220;fell flat&#8221; in a speech in 2001, Sotomayor told Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., referring to remarks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A look at some of the question and answer exchanges in Sonia Sotomayor&#8217;s confirmation hearing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A look at some exchanges during the fourth day of the Senate Judiciary Committee&#8217;s hearings on the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor:

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas: &#8220;You&#8217;ve also said that the Supreme Court decisions that a lot of us believe made law actually were an interpretation of the law. So I&#8217;m — I would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor denies she would let her personal views affect her rulings on high court</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has vowed to not let her personal views affect how she would rule on cases from the nation&#8217;s highest court.

In an exchange with the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday, Sotomayor said she believes comments she has made about the value of life&#8217;s experiences have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor defends &#8216;wise Latina&#8217; remark under questioning at Supreme Court confirmation hearing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor stoutly denied racial bias Tuesday at her Senate confirmation hearing and said an oft-criticized remark about her Hispanic heritage affecting her decisions was a rhetorical device gone awry.

An attempted play on words &#8220;fell flat&#8221; in a speech in 2001, Sotomayor told Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., referring to remarks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor confronts GOP skeptics, says she&#8217;ll pursue &#8216;impartial justice&#8217; if confirmed to court</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic Supreme Court nominee in history, vowed loyalty to &#8220;the impartiality of our justice system&#8221; Monday, confronting Republican skeptics at Senate hearings suffused with racial politics but all but certain to lead to her confirmation.

&#8220;My personal and professional experiences help me to listen and understand, with the law always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analysis: Republican Party uses Sotomayor hearings to define itself but treads carefully</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans came to praise Sonia Sotomayor, but not necessarily to vote for her.

That was the straddle that numerous GOP members of the Senate Judiciary Committee attempted at the opening of hearings Monday on the woman who would be the first Latina to sit on the Supreme Court. Seizing on their best chance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberals, conservatives battle over firefighter Ricci and his case at Sotomayor hearing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Firefighter Frank Ricci, scheduled to testify about Sonia Sotomayor&#8217;s ruling against his reverse discrimination lawsuit, was targeted for criticism Monday by powerful liberal groups who support her confirmation to the Supreme Court.

Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans decided last week to make Ricci, a white New Haven, Conn., firefighter, one of their showcase witnesses on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor says &#8216;impartial justice&#8217; will trump any narrow cause if she&#8217;s confirmed as justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Her confirmation all but assured, Sonia Sotomayor pledged Monday to serve the &#8220;larger interest of impartial justice&#8221; rather than any narrow cause if she becomes the first Hispanic on the Supreme Court.

&#8220;My personal and professional experiences help me listen and understand, with the law always commanding the result in every case,&#8221; Sotomayor told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No joke: Franken gives serious opening statement in Sotomayor hearing</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The newest member of the Senate, former comedian Al Franken, was as serious as his colleagues in his opening statement at the Senate confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.

Franken said he is &#8220;truly humbled&#8221; to be on the Judiciary Committee. He also praised Chairman Patrick Leahy and ranking Republican Jeff Sessions.
Then, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOP Senator Graham predicts Sotomayor Supreme Court confirmation &#8216;barring meltdown&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats praised Sonia Sotomayor as a Hispanic pioneer well qualified for the Supreme Court on Monday, but Republicans questioned her impartiality and President Barack Obama&#8217;s views as well at the start of confirmation hearings.

Despite Republican misgivings, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told Sotomayor, &#8220;Unless you have a complete meltdown, you&#8217;re going to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some comments from the Sotomayor confirmation hearing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Some excerpts from comments during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.

&#8220;I would trust that all members of this committee here today will reject the efforts of partisans and outside pressure groups that sought to create a caricature of Judge Sotomayor while belittling her record and achievements, her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Civil rights group Sotomayor advised sued in case similar to firefighters&#8217; job test dispute</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Hirschfeld Davis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A civil rights group on whose board Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor served filed racial bias lawsuits over employment examinations that resemble a Connecticut case in which she ruled against white firefighters, documents released by the Senate show.

The Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund represented Hispanic sanitation workers in New York City [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White firefighters prevail in Supreme Court reverse discrimination ruling on race, promotions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court declared Monday that white firefighters in Connecticut were unfairly denied promotion because of their race, ruling against minorities in a major reverse discrimination case that could affect bosses and workers nationwide. The justices threw out a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor had endorsed as an appeals court judge.

In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White House gives Senate panel documents on Sotomayor&#8217;s speeches, writings, nomination</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Hirschfeld Davis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The White House delivered a huge portfolio of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor&#8217;s writings, speeches and rulings to Capitol Hill Wednesday, with details about the federal judge that will shape the debate over seating her on the court.

The massive parcel of documents came in response to a questionnaire the Senate Judiciary Committee sends [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor seeks to reassure senators she won&#8217;t be biased as she continues Senate meetings</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Hirschfeld Davis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is racing through a crucial set of meetings with senators on Capitol Hill, working to reassure Republicans who worry she&#8217;d bring ethnic and gender bias to her decisions.

Sotomayor, who would be the high court&#8217;s first Hispanic and third woman, is telling senators in both parties that while her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Senate meetings, Sotomayor strives to do no harm to her prospects of becoming a justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie Kellman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Judge Sonia Sotomayor is not shy. By all accounts, her hearing is fine.

But Sotomayor stayed nearly silent in public during her debut Tuesday on Capitol Hill under a guiding principle more associated with the practice of medicine than law or politics: Above all, do no harm.
&#8220;She&#8217;s following the rules,&#8221; said Tom Korologos, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate&#8217;s top Democrat praises Sotomayor, says public will identify with her &#8216;underdog&#8217; past</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Hirschfeld Davis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Senate&#8217;s top Democrat praised federal judge Sonia Sotomayor Tuesday as an extraordinarily well-qualified Supreme Court nominee whose background as an &#8220;underdog&#8221; appeals to Americans.

&#8220;We have the whole package here,&#8221; said Sen. Harry Reid, seated beside Sotomayor before the two met in his Capitol office. He called her life story &#8220;compelling.&#8221;
&#8220;America identifies with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOP senator says Obama&#8217;s Supreme Court choice shouldn&#8217;t be branded as racist</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 21:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The top Republican involved in the confirmation hearings for President Barack Obama&#8217;s Supreme Court nominee says he would prefer his colleagues refrain from calling Sonia Sotomayor a racist.

Sen. Jeff Sessions said Sunday that he would prefer fellow Republicans stop attacking Sotomayor over remarks about her background as a daughter of Puerto Rican parents. [...]]]></description>
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