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	<title>Breaking News &#187; Sonia sotomayor</title>
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		<title>Supreme Court will decide whether states, cities can limit gun rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether strict local and state gun control laws violate the Second Amendment, ensuring another high-profile battle over the rights of gun owners.

The court said it will review a lower court ruling that upheld a handgun ban in Chicago. Gun rights supporters challenged gun laws in Chicago [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate confirms Gerard Lynch of New York for 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday confirmed Gerard Lynch for the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, giving overwhelming approval to the New York judge who presided over cases involving former basketball coach Isiah Thomas and recording artist Lil&#8217; Kim.

The 94-3 vote means that Democratic nominees now hold four of 10 currently filled seats on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY judge who sent Madoff to prison for 150 years to be nominated to Sotomayor&#8217;s previous court</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Neumeister</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — The White House plans to nominate the judge who presided over the Bernard Madoff case to the appeals court that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor served on, Sen. Charles Schumer said Wednesday.

Schumer said in a statement that his office told the White House that U.S. District Judge Denny Chin &#8220;would be an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wasting no time, Sotomayor jumps in to question lawyers in first argument at the Supreme Court</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete Yost</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Twenty minutes into her first argument as a Supreme Court justice, Sonia Sotomayor wasn&#8217;t shy about taking on two legal heavyweights in an important case that could open a door to a flood of corporate campaign spending.

First, Sotomayor went head-to-head with Theodore Olson, a prominent conservative who has argued 56 cases before the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court seems likely to lift restrictions on campaign spending by businesses, unions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court signaled Wednesday it may let businesses and unions spend freely to help their favored candidates in time for next year&#8217;s elections. Such a step could roll back a century of attempts to restrain the power of corporate treasuries in American politics.

The justices cut short their summer recess for a lively [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court receptive to arguments for freer campaign spending by businesses, unions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete Yost</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court signaled Wednesday it may let businesses and unions spend freely to help their favored political candidates in time for next year&#8217;s elections.

In a case that began with a movie attacking Hillary Rodham Clinton, newly seated Justice Sonia Sotomayor jumped right into the questioning. She appeared skeptical about taking the far-reaching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court hears arguments on lifting restrictions on corporate campaign spending</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, in a case that arose from a film attacking Hillary Rodham Clinton, wrestled on Wednesday with whether to overturn prohibitions on political campaign spending by corporations and labor unions.

Newly seated Justice Sonia Sotomayor jumped right into the questioning. She appeared skeptical about taking the far-reaching step of lifting the ban, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President back at work at White House, makes school speech, attends Sotomayor ceremony Tuesday</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A week after the planned speech first drew controversy, President Barack Obama is delivering an address to the nation&#8217;s schoolchildren.

He and Education Secretary Arne Duncan will host a group discussion Tuesday with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Va., before the president speaks to students nationwide through C-SPAN television. He&#8217;ll be discussing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor votes unsuccessfully with high court&#8217;s liberal bloc to try to halt Ohio execution</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Justice Sonia Sotomayor is getting into the swing of being a member of the Supreme Court.

Sotomayor made what appears to be her first public decision as a justice on Monday, voting unsuccessfully to delay the execution of an Ohio death row inmate.
She voted along with the court&#8217;s liberal bloc — Justices John Paul [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supporters cheer Justice Sonia Sotomayor at White House as Obama savors a political victory</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Loven</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama threw a big White House party Wednesday to celebrate Sonia Sotomayor as the Supreme Court&#8217;s first Latino justice — and to publicly savor the victory sure to earn him points with politically potent Hispanics.

The event — televised remarks from Obama and Sotomayor followed by a private reception for a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>End of primary challenge marks smoother sailing for NY Sen. Gillibrand in 2010 election</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ALBANY, N.Y. —Kirsten Gillibrand didn&#8217;t have the pedigree of a Kennedy, Clinton or a Cuomo. She was not, her critics said, up to the challenge of winning a tough, New York brawl for the U.S. Senate seat Gov. David Paterson handed her.

But on Friday, the last of the established threats to her candidacy backed away [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sen. Edward Kennedy, battling brain cancer, misses vote to confirm Sotomayor for Supreme Court</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOSTON — An ailing Sen. Edward Kennedy did not attend a vote on the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor (SUHN&#8217;-ya soh-toh-my-YOR&#8217;) to the Supreme Court.

The Massachusetts Democrat was the only senator absent from Thursday&#8217;s vote.
Kennedy, who was diagnosed with brain cancer last year, has been spending much of his time on the family&#8217;s compound in Hyannis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor watches Senate&#8217;s confirmation vote among colleagues at US courthouse in NYC</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — Sonia Sotomayor bathed in applause from friends and colleagues at a federal courthouse in lower Manhattan Thursday as the Senate voted to confirm her appointment to the Supreme Court.

The 55-year-old New Yorker watched the vote unfold on large-screen televisions in a conference room on the 8th floor overflowing with other judges and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor confirmed as first Hispanic Supreme Court justice in historic Senate vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Hirschfeld Davis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Sonia Sotomayor won confirmation Thursday as the nation&#8217;s first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, a history-making Senate vote that capped a summer-long debate heavy with ethnic politics and hints of high court fights to come.

The third woman in court history, she&#8217;ll be sworn in Saturday as the 111th justice and the first nominated by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama hails confirmation of Sotomayor as Supreme Court justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is lauding the barrier-breaking confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor to be the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court.

Said the president: &#8220;With this historic vote, the Senate has affirmed that Justice Sotomayor has the intellect, the temperament, the history, the integrity and the independence of mind to ably serve on our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor to be sworn in as Supreme Court justice in ceremony on Saturday at high court</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Sonia Sotomayor will be sworn in as the 111th justice of the Supreme Court on Saturday, with Chief Justice John Roberts administering two oaths of office.

The 55-year-old Sotomayor will repeat one oath as prescribed by the Constitution in a private ceremony at the high court at 11 a.m. It will be open only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate confirms Sotomayor, first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, in historic vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Hirschfeld Davis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed Sonia Sotomayor Thursday as the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court.

The vote was 68-31 for Sotomayor, President Barack Obama&#8217;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 most Republicans voted against her, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate to vote on $2B &#8216;cash-for-clunkers&#8217; extension that would fund 500K new vehicle sales</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Senate is poised to pump $2 billion more into the popular &#8220;cash-for-clunkers&#8221; program after agreeing to give shoppers until Labor Day to make a deal on more energy-efficient models.

The White House has estimated that tripling the $1 billion program could pay for 500,000 more new-car sales, giving automakers a late-summer boost after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History, politics shape debate with Senate poised to confirm first Hispanic justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Hirschfeld Davis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio said he&#8217;d break with his party to support Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor Thursday, as the Senate pressed toward a history-making vote to confirm her as the first Hispanic justice over the grave objections of most GOP senators.

The Democratic-led Senate is set to vote later Thursday on President [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retiring Republian Sen. Bond announces plans to back Sotomayor for Supreme Court</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Hirschfeld Davis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Kit Bond says he&#8217;ll support Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, breaking with the vast majority of the GOP.

The retiring Missouri senator says he disagrees with some of Sotomayor&#8217;s rulings and statements, but that she&#8217;s a well-qualified jurist. He becomes the seventh Republican to publicly announce he will support President Barack Obama&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate starts historic debate on Sotomayor, in line to become Supreme Court&#8217;s first Hispanic</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Senate&#8217;s top Republican said Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor fails the test of impartiality despite her impressive background, while the senior Democrat defended her as a mainstream moderate, as the Senate prepared to debate the judge expected to be confirmed as the first Hispanic and third female justice.

Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McCain says he remains undecided on whether to vote to confirm Sotomayor for Supreme Court</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain says he is still on the fence when it comes to voting for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.

McCain says he is examining Sotomayor&#8217;s record as an appeals court judge to decide whether she understands the limits to judicial power. He voted against her when she was nominated to the appeals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas&#8217; senior senator plans to reject nominee likely to be first Hispanic on Supreme Court</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison says she will vote against confirming Sonia Sotomayor to be a Supreme Court justice.

She said Tuesday she is concerned about Sotomayor&#8217;s views on the Second Amendment on the right to bear arms. Hutchison is from Texas, where the population is more than a third Hispanic.
Sotomayor is expected to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Judiciary Committee approves Sonia Sotomayor to be first Hispanic Supreme Court justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Hirschfeld Davis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Pushing toward a historic Supreme Court confirmation vote, the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday approved Judge Sonia Sotomayor to be the first Hispanic justice, over nearly solid Republican opposition.

The panel&#8217;s 13-6 vote for Sotomayor masked deep political divisions within GOP ranks about confirming President Barack Obama&#8217;s first high court nominee. Just one Republican, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judiciary panel set to vote on Sotomayor, Senate confirmation appears certain next week</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor appears headed to quick confirmation as the first Hispanic justice in spite of opposition from a growing chorus of conservative Republican senators who say she would bring liberal bias to the high court.

A Senate Judiciary Committee vote Tuesday was expected to advance Sotomayor, President Barack Obama&#8217;s first Supreme [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Republicans Sessions, Grassley announce Sotomayor opposition on eve of panel vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Hirschfeld Davis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — On the eve of their panel&#8217;s vote, top Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee announced Monday that they&#8217;ll oppose Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, joining a growing list of conservatives ready to vote against the judge who&#8217;s virtually certain to become the first Hispanic justice.

Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the committee&#8217;s top Republican, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch opposes Sotomayor nomination, cites her judicial philosophy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch says he will vote against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.

The Republican sits on the Judiciary Committee and says he disagrees with Sotomayor&#8217;s judicial philosophy.
In a statement issued Friday, Hatch, a lawyer by trade, wrote that Sotomayor&#8217;s statements and record are at odds with the principles about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NRA threatens senators on Sotomayor; will consider vote in annual ratings of lawmakers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Hirschfeld Davis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The National Rifle Association is warning senators that it will consider their votes on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor as part of its influential annual ratings of lawmakers.

The NRA says President Barack Obama&#8217;s first high court nominee has a hostile view of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. It announced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans delay panel vote on Sotomayor as GOP moderates, abortion rights group add support</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Hirschfeld Davis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee put off its vote Tuesday on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor for one week amid objections from the panel&#8217;s conservative Republicans, even as the judge&#8217;s support among GOP moderates continued to grow.

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the Judiciary chairman, said his panel would vote on Sotomayor&#8217;s nomination on July 28 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republican senators delay panel vote on Sotomayor; Judiciary Committee to act July 28</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee has put off its vote on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor (SOHN&#8217;-ya soh-toh-my-YOR&#8217;) for one week after Republicans asked for a delay.

Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy says the vote will occur on July 28. The Vermont Democrat says he&#8217;s disappointed the GOP held up the committee&#8217;s action, but predicts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McConnell to oppose Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Hirschfeld Davis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Senate&#8217;s top Republican will vote against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.

A senior aide says Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell plans to announce his opposition to President Barack Obama&#8217;s high court nominee on Monday.
He says her statements show an alarming lack of respect for the notion of equal justice, and that he&#8217;s worried she&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Sonia Sotomayor sped toward confirmation as the nation&#8217;s first Hispanic justice Thursday, encouraged by Republican promises of a quick vote and cheered on by a Democratic senator&#8217;s challenge to take on the Supreme Court&#8217;s conservative wing when she arrives.

&#8220;Battle out the ideas that you believe in, because I have a strong hunch that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans see August Senate vote on Sotomayor; judge seems headed for Supreme Court approval</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Republicans cleared the way Thursday for a Senate vote next month to confirm Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, placing her firmly in line to become the first Hispanic justice.

&#8220;I look forward to you getting that vote before we recess in August,&#8221; said Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chairman: Senate panel to vote on Sotomayor for Supreme Court on Tuesday unless GOP delays</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman says he&#8217;ll set a vote in his panel next week on confirming Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.

Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy says the vote will be Tuesday unless committee Republicans object. Under the panel&#8217;s rules, the GOP can delay the vote for a week.
Leahy says a number of Republicans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minnesota senator asks Sotomayor if she watched All-Star game, cites Twin player&#8217;s winning hit</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — In a light moment at confirmation hearings immersed at the time in arcane legal talk, Sonia Sotomayor acknowledged she watched TV Tuesday night — and that it was more likely the All-Star game than a re-run of her testimony.

Sotomayor, a native of New York, was asked by Minnesota Democrat Amy Klobuchar (KLOH&#8217;-buh-shahr) if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor says White House didn&#8217;t ask her abortion views before Supreme Court nomination</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Judge Sonia Sotomayor said Wednesday neither President Barack Obama nor anyone else in the administration asked her views on abortion rights before she was nominated for the Supreme Court.

&#8220;I was asked no question by anyone including the president about my views on any specific legal issue,&#8221; she said at the outset of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor says record as judge rebuts claims she is biased; confirmation hearings to resume</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Sonia Sotomayor is relying on her 17-year record as a federal judge to rebut criticism that she is concealing a liberal agenda that will show up if she is confirmed to the Supreme Court.

Sotomayor, the first Hispanic high court nominee, was set to return Wednesday to a cavernous Senate hearing room for another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor says record as judge rebuts claims she is biased; hearings resume Wednesday</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Sonia Sotomayor is relying on her 17-year record as a federal judge to rebut criticism that she is concealing a liberal agenda that will show up if she is confirmed to the Supreme Court.

Sotomayor, the first Hispanic high court nominee, was set to return Wednesday to a cavernous Senate hearing room for another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senator looks for answers from Sotomayor on treatment of terror suspects</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A member of the Senate Judiciary Committee appears to be trying to determine how Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor might rule in cases involving U.S. treatment of terror suspects.

In response to questioning from Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Sotomayor said she believes the nation is at war and that there are [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Benac</dc:creator>
		
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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>Sotomayor declines to say whether she has any heroes currently sitting on Supreme Court</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Given a chance to say Tuesday which current Supreme Court justice or justices she most admires, Sonia Sotomayor took a pass.

Answering a question from Wisconsin Democrat Herb Kohl, the 55-year-old Sotomayor declared: &#8220;To suggest that I admire one of the sitting Supreme Court justices would suggest that I think of myself as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Key legal terms referenced during Sotomayor Supreme Court confirmation hearing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A glossary of terms used by senators and Judge Sonia Sotomayor at her confirmation hearings to be a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court:

— Sui generis. One of a kind. Sotomayor used the term Tuesday to describe the Supreme Court case that settled the outcome of the 2001 presidential election. She declined to say what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At the Sotomayor hearing, lawmakers find an intent listener for their praise and criticism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin Woodward</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Sonia Sotomayor was a mostly wordless figure in the opening act of her Senate confirmation hearing Monday, but no less striking for her silence.

The Supreme Court nominee looked intently at each speaker, no matter how much they criticized her. Her head barely moved. Her lips were closed. Her expressions were familiar to anyone [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Julie Hirschfeld Davis</dc:creator>
		
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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>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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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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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>Officials: Panetta canceled CIA effort to find, kill al-Qaida leaders up close</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Hess</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A secret intelligence program canceled by CIA Director Leon Panetta in June was meant to find and then capture or kill al-Qaida leaders at close range rather than target them with air strikes that risked civilian casualties, government officials with knowledge of the operation said Monday.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sen. Graham tells Sotomayor she&#8217;ll be confirmed barring a &#8216;complete meltdown&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A Senate Judiciary Committee Republican has told Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor she&#8217;ll be confirmed &#8220;unless you have a complete meltdown.&#8221;

Sen. Lindsey Graham said Monday he didn&#8217;t think that would happen. He also said he wasn&#8217;t ready to announce how he will vote on the native of South Bronx.
The South Carolina Republican said [...]]]></description>
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