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It's Official: Sotomayor First Latina U.S. Supreme Court

Agence France Presse August 6, 2009.

By an easy 68-31 margin, lawmakers lifted the 55-year-old appeals court judge to the bench that serves as the final arbiter of the U.S. Constitution.

Sonia Sotomayor Faces Final Vote

Agence France Presse August 5, 2009.

Sotomayor is expected to win Senate confirmation as early as Thursday as the first Hispanic U.S. Supreme Court justice.

Life Will Never Return to Normal for an Injured Vet Like Tomas Young

Liliana Segura, AlterNet. May 1, 2008.

Phil Donahue's documentary Body of War offers a chilling view of how the lies that led us to war changed the life of one Iraq veteran.