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	<title>Breaking News &#187; Sotomayor</title>
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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>On eve of debate, GOP&#8217;s McCain opposes Sotomayor, who wins support of moderate Democrat Nelson</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Hirschfeld Davis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. John McCain, his party&#8217;s failed 2008 presidential contender, announced Monday he&#8217;d join the vast majority of the GOP to vote against Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who&#8217;s on track to be confirmed this week as the first Hispanic justice.

McCain&#8217;s decision, the day before the Senate debates President Barack Obama&#8217;s first high court nominee, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cancer survivor Specter talks chemo, kicks off speculation about health; aide says all well</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Sen. Arlen Specter ignited a new round of speculation about his health when he remarked that his eyes and nose were running as a side effect of chemotherapy.

A spokeswoman quickly said Specter has not suffered a recurrence of cancer or undergone the treatment in more than a year.
The 79-year-old senator, who switched earlier [...]]]></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>Ala. Sen. Jeff Sessions reaches decision on Sotomayor, but not ready to make choice public</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 09:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Schelzig</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee says he has made up his mind on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, but he&#8217;s not ready to make his decision public.

Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama said before the Tennessee Republican Party&#8217;s annual fundraiser on Saturday that he expects the vote on Democratic President [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fireman at Sotomayor hearing embodies struggle to right racial wrongs without harm to whites</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — He spoke, this 35-year-old firefighter, to frustrations that still ripple in an undercurrent across the nation.

Frank Ricci, who is white, sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday and spoke in a steady, deliberate voice about how he studied hard, played by the rules, and was denied a promotion because of the color [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conn. white firefighter says Sotomayor&#8217;s ruling &#8216;divides people&#8217; along racial lines</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Frank Ricci, the white firefighter who recently won his reverse discrimination case at the Supreme Court, said Thursday that an unfavorable ruling by Sonia Sotomayor and other judges &#8220;divides people who don&#8217;t wish to be divided along racial lines.&#8221; Ricci and his firefighting colleague from New Haven, Conn., Lt. Ben Vargas, denounced the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor speeds to confirmation as nation&#8217;s first Hispanic justice as GOP promises quick vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:18:06 +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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor assured of confirmation; Republicans promise quick vote on Supreme Court nomination</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Hirschfeld Davis</dc:creator>
		
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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>Some quotes from witnesses in the confirmation hearings for Sonia Sotomayor</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some quotes from witnesses at the Senate Judiciary Committee&#8217;s hearing on Sonia Sotomayor&#8217;s nomination to the Supreme Court:

&#8220;In the district attorney&#8217;s office, the judge was immediately recognized &#8230; as someone a step ahead of her colleagues, one of the brightest and most mature, hardworking, standout who was marked for rapid advancement. Ultimately, she took on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White firefighter whom Sotomayor ruled against says her decision sows racial division</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Frank Ricci, the white firefighter who recently won his reverse discrimination case at the Supreme Court, said Thursday that an unfavorable ruling by Sonia Sotomayor and other judges &#8220;divides people who don&#8217;t wish to be divided along racial lines.&#8221;

Ricci and his firefighting colleague from New Haven, Conn., Lt. Ben Vargas, denounced the appeals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Firefighter says appeals court ruling deprived him of his rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A Connecticut firefighter who lost an appeals court ruling by Sonia Sotomayor has told a Senate panel that in his line of work, advancement has to be determined by skill and qualifications.

Frank Ricci was among a group of white New Haven firefighters who were denied a promotion when city tossed out the results [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY district attorney Morgenthau says Sotomayor &#8216;uniquely qualified&#8217; for Supreme Court</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Veteran New York district attorney Robert Morgenthau is praising one of his former assistants, Sonia Sotomayor, as someone who can be an &#8220;outstanding&#8221; member of the Supreme Court.

Morgenthau told the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday that as an assistant district attorney, Sotomayor understood the importance of every criminal case to the victim. He says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate panel completes questioning of court nominee Sotomayor, vote expected by August</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has completed three days of answering questions before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The panel&#8217;s top Republican, Jeff Sessions of Alabama, said he expects a Senate floor vote to come before the August recess. Approval would make Sotomayor the first Hispanic justice on the high court.
Sotomayor won praise from Democrats [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Graham tells nominee the Supreme Court should recognize nature of al-Qaida</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A Republican senator is appealing to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor to recognize the nature of the enemy as the country considers how to prosecute detainees from the war on terror.

Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina told Sotomayor that some of the detainees, if released, will &#8220;try to kill us all.&#8221; He said [...]]]></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>Sotomayor says pay a &#8216;difficult&#8217; issue for many judges, but she can live on high court salary</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor says she&#8217;s lived on a judge&#8217;s salary for 17 years, and she can, in her words, &#8220;suffer through more of it.&#8221;

Supreme Court justices make a little more than $200,000 a year.
Sotomayor was responding Thursday to questions from Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, who asked if the nominee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor says she won&#8217;t say how she&#8217;d rule on right to bear arms without hearing a case</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor bluntly told a Republican senator there was no way she would say in the setting of a congressional hearing just how she&#8217;d rule on an important constitutional question.

Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma pressed Sotomayor for the second day in a row to say under what circumstances she might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nearing end of confirmation questioning, Sotomayor signals support for Supreme Court TV</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Judge Sonia Sotomayor signaled an openness to television coverage of Supreme Court proceedings Thursday as she neared the end of three grueling days of questioning, all but assured of confirmation.

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., chairman of the Judiciary Committee that is holding this week&#8217;s hearings, said he would set a vote for next week. [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Ann Sanner</dc:creator>
		
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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>Specter tells Sotomayor &#8216;conventional wisdom&#8217; is that she&#8217;s in as next Supreme Court justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Sen. Arlen Specter has told Judge Sonia Sotomayor he thinks it&#8217;s pretty certain she&#8217;ll be confirmed for a seat on the Supreme Court.

Just before a late-morning break in the fourth day of hearings, the Pennsylvania Democrat told Sotomayor: &#8220;Conventional wisdom is very strong for your confirmation.&#8221;
Specter, who switched parties earlier this year, once [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOP senators repeatedly interrogate Sotomayor on ruling in reverse discrimination case</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee aren&#8217;t letting go of the issue involving white firefighters from Connecticut who last month won a reverse discrimination case at the Supreme Court.

With firefighter Frank Ricci ready to testify, Sen. Jon Kyl questioned Judge Sonia Sotomayor aggressively Thursday about her ruling against him as a member of [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor drew praise from GOP skeptics as well as Democratic supporters Thursday on the final day of Senate questioning that&#8217;s expected to lead to her confirmation.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., described Sotomayor&#8217;s judicial record as &#8220;generally in the mainstream&#8221; and said he thought she would keep an open mind on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republican Sen. Graham tells Sotomayor he&#8217;s feeling better about her going to high court</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A Republican critic of Sonia Sotomayor says he&#8217;s feeling more comfortable about her going to the Supreme Court, saying he hopes she won&#8217;t let personal opinions drive her rulings.

In an exchange with Sotomayor, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina sought to learn what kind of judicial demeanor she would have. He pressed her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Sotomayor&#8217;s comments at her confirmation hearing compare with Roberts, Alito</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse J. Holland</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominees rarely take risky or controversial positions when in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sonia Sotomayor is no exception.

She&#8217;s following a path charted by several nominees before her, including Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, on the questions they&#8217;ve all been asked.
A comparison of what she said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police shoot and kill man near US Capitol after he brandished weapon during traffic stop</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Evans</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A chaotic scene unfolded near the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday after police shot and killed an armed man in what authorities described as a routine rush hour traffic stop that turned deadly.

U.S. Capitol Police spokeswoman Sgt. Kim Schneider said the unidentified 35-year-old man sped away in a white car after being stopped a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police shot and kill armed man near US Capitol, building briefly sealed off</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Evans</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A chaotic scene unfolded near the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday after police shot and killed an armed man in what authorities described as a routine rush hour traffic stop that turned deadly.

U.S. Capitol Police spokeswoman Sgt. Kim Schneider said the unidentified 35-year-old man sped away in a white car after being stopped a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police say they shot and killed man near US Capitol after he brandished weapon</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Evans</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A chaotic scene unfolded near the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday after police shot and killed an armed man in what authorities described as a routine rush hour traffic stop that turned deadly.

U.S. Capitol Police spokeswoman Sgt. Kim Schneider said the unidentified 35-year-old man refused to stop at the checkpoint about two blocks north [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gunfire erupts near Capitol, 1 man shot</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Evans</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A chaotic scene unfolded at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday after police shot and killed an armed man in what authorities described as a routine rush hour traffic stop that turned deadly.

The unidentified man fled authorities, hitting one officer who was injured, said Sgt. Kim Schneider, U.S. Capitol Police spokeswoman. The 35-year-old man [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor hearing has winners, losers; some both won and lost</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Judge Sonia Sotomayor is likely headed to the Supreme Court, but not unscathed. A Republican inquisitor at her confirmation hearings, Sen. Jeff Sessions, took advantage of the national spotlight but got singed by it, too. There are political winners and losers in every nomination fight, and some people, like Sotomayor and Sessions, know both gain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor on the issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sonia Sotomayor&#8217;s rulings and writings on some issues in which she has refused to spell out her views during questioning by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee:

ABORTION
She has not ruled in any cases that squarely confronted the right to abortion. As an appeals court judge she dismissed a challenge to the so-called global gag rule [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court confirmation in sight, Sotomayor deflects questions on abortion, gun rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Hirschfeld Davis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor determinedly sidestepped volleys of Republican questions on abortion and gun rights Wednesday, keeping her demeanor cool and her opinions mostly private as she neared the end of a marathon Senate grilling on the road to all but sure confirmation.

After two long days of questioning by Judiciary Committee senators, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Despite her rigorous caution, richer portrait of Sotomayor emerges in Supreme Court hearings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Benac</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — From her early days as a lawyer, Sonia Sotomayor never was content to be what she calls the &#8220;fifth guy on the totem pole.&#8221;

The portrait of Sotomayor that has emerged from hour upon hour of testimony before the Judiciary Committee this week is that of a judge who is confident, disciplined and unflappable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Other &#8216;wise Latinas&#8217; say Sotomayor need not apologize for remarks about heritage&#8217;s benefits</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Washington</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[They are Latinas, women of accomplishment, experience — and what might even be called wisdom. And they say there is no reason for Sonia Sotomayor to apologize for suggesting that they might bring special insight to the pursuit of justice.

&#8220;Her background will only strengthen the court,&#8221; said Teresa Puente, an assistant journalism professor at Columbia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With microphones out at Sotomayor hearing, Franken gets a chance to sit in big dog&#8217;s seat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie Kellman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Al Franken is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee — only a week into office? Well, Franken was, briefly.

&#8220;The quickest rise of any senator in history,&#8221; reports the lead Republican, Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama.
The Minnesota Democrat got to sit in the chairman&#8217;s seat when the real chairman&#8217;s microphone went out. What followed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Firefighter at center of Supreme Court case has career marked by triumphs, legal skirmishes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Frank Ricci&#8217;s name is on the lips of almost every senator in the Supreme Court nomination hearings of Sonia Sotomayor. His buddies know the 35-year-old New Haven firefighter by other names.

They call him Cushion because another firefighter landed on him when the two fell more than 10 feet at a Yale [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Specter likes Sotomayor&#8217;s record, but not her answers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — As Sen. Arlen Specter sees it, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has an &#8220;exemplary&#8221; record on the bench.

He made clear, though, that he didn&#8217;t think much about her answers to questions during her confirmation hearing. Specter was one of several members of the Senate Judiciary Committee who failed to elicit any specifics from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A guide to head-scratching lingo in Sotomayor&#8217;s Supreme Court confirmation hearings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse J. Holland</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Not everyone participating in Sonia Sotomayor&#8217;s Supreme Court confirmation hearing is a lawyer, so the terms flying back and forth can get baffling.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is one of those non-lawyers present, and gave a plea Thursday to Sotomayor to explain in &#8220;common, everyday English&#8221; what the oft-repeated phrase &#8220;per curiam&#8221; means.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve had [...]]]></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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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Senator fails to get Sotomayor to offer additional views on abortion</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is shedding no additional light on her views on abortion, despite persistent questioning from one of the Senate&#8217;s staunchest abortion opponents.

Sotomayor referred to Supreme Court cases establishing that women have a constitutional right to abortions in some circumstances and that the high court must consider whether state regulations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor declines to give views on abortion, says Obama didn&#8217;t ask before Supreme Court pick</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor declined repeatedly at Senate confirmation hearings Wednesday to disclose her views on abortion rights and said President Barack Obama never asked her before he chose her for the bench.

&#8220;I can&#8217;t answer &#8230; because I can&#8217;t look at it in the abstract,&#8221; she told Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge Sotomayor acknowledges to Senate panel that &#8216;wise Latina&#8217; comments &#8216;fell flat&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor acknowledged Wednesday that her &#8220;wise Latina&#8221; remarks had stirred controversy and conceded that they&#8217;d been taken the wrong way by some.

Sotomayor, 55, said she would regret it if the larger message she was trying to convey — to encourage young people to lift their aspirations — got lost [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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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 refuses to take back &#8216;wise Latina&#8217; comment, concedes they were bad idea</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor declined Wednesday to renounce her comment that a &#8220;wise Latina&#8221; woman might make a better ruling than a white man without the same life experiences.

But at the same time, Sotomayor, 55, said she regretted that her remark in a speech several years ago has been &#8220;misunderstood&#8221; by some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FACT CHECK: Did Sotomayor really compare abortion to slavery in legal briefs?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Abortion opponents saw their issue take center stage when Sen. Lindsey Graham questioned Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor about her 12-year tenure with the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund.

In particular, the South Carolina Republican asked Tuesday about legal briefs the group filed arguing for an expansion of abortion rights. In one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court nominee faces harsh criticism for temperament</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Neumeister</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Sonia Sotomayor kept her cool Tuesday, even when she was being portrayed at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing as just the opposite — a hotheaded judge who is sometimes mean to lawyers who appear before her.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., raised the subject, citing anonymous comments in the Almanac of the Federal Judiciary from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Southern senator blocked from bench by bias charges raises them against Supreme Court nominee</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie Kellman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Sen. Jeff Sessions, the Republican equating Sonia Sotomayor&#8217;s supposed empathy with racial bias, was blocked from the federal bench himself two decades ago for making insensitive remarks about the Ku Klux Klan and the NAACP.

The third-term Alabama senator, this week at least, is the face of a party without a clear leader. His [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor pushes back on GOP bias charges in intense exchanges; court confirmation seen likely</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Sonia Sotomayor pushed back vigorously Tuesday against Republican charges that she would bring bias and a liberal agenda to her seat as the first Hispanic woman on the Supreme Court, insisting repeatedly she would be impartial as GOP senators tried to undercut her with her own words from past speeches.

For all the pointed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fifth demonstrator in 2 days removed for disrupting Sotomayor confirmation hearing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — An anti-abortion activist has been removed from Sonia Sotomayor&#8217;s Supreme Court confirmation hearing, the fifth demonstrator to disrupt the proceedings in two days.

It took a half-dozen Capitol Police officers to remove the struggling protester from the hearing room Tuesday after he yelled, &#8220;She&#8217;s a baby killer.&#8221;
Four protesters were arrested Monday and charged with [...]]]></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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