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Liliana Segura, AlterNet. October 12, 2009.
Would a Human Sacrifice TV Channel be protected by the First Amendment? Answers to this and other key questions will be answered.
Rick DeJesús-Rueff, Christian Science Monitor. October 7, 2009.
Weighing and balancing perspectives with empathy is a better recipe for justice than "blindness," which can cause us to miss the glaring injustices of our legal system.
Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. October 6, 2009.
The newly appointed Supreme Court justice asked more questions in one session than Clarence Thomas has asked over the course of several years.
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.
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.
Ian Millhiser, Think Progress AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. July 28, 2009.
Only one Republican on the Judiciary Committee could bring himself to vote for President Obama's Supreme Court nominee.
The Huffington Post News Editors, Huffington Post July 28, 2009.
BarbinMD, Daily Kos AlterNet: PEEK. July 23, 2009.
Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has announced he will vote to approve Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.
Guy T. Saperstein, AlterNet. July 17, 2009.
What opponents of affirmative action like Pat Buchanan fail to grasp is that this country was built on affirmative action -- for white males.
Alex Leo, Huffington Post AlterNet: Politics. July 17, 2009.
Highlights from one of The Daily Show's funniest segments of the year.
By KATE PHILLIPS, The New York Times July 14, 2009.
Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. July 14, 2009.
Infamous Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry employs his gory protest tactics in Washington to assail Sotomayor's record on reproductive rights.
John Nichols, TheNation.com AlterNet: PEEK. July 13, 2009.
"And I don't think you will (have a complete meltdown)."
Allison Kilkenny, True/Slant AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. July 13, 2009.
All justices rely on their past experiences, ideologies, biases, prejudices, and yes -- the most dreaded of human qualities -- empathy.
Doug Kendall, Huffington Post AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. July 13, 2009.
The Republicans come out swinging against judicial empathy and the infamous 'wise Latina' remark.
Jeffrey Deskovic, AlterNet. July 10, 2009.
Sotomayor put procedure over innocence as a federal judge.
Ian Millhiser, Think Progress AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. July 6, 2009.
Randall Terry has announced a 12-city tour to spread word that "[t]o refuse to filibuster [Sotomayor] is to bow ... to the Angel of Death."
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. June 29, 2009.
The Right has long anticipated this ruling so as to spin it as proof of Sotomayor's incompetence, hatred of white people, etc.
Lee Fang, Think Progress AlterNet: Immigration. June 22, 2009.
Speaking under a misspelled banner, right-wingers who want to make English the official language of the U.S. showed no sense of irony.
Ian Millhiser, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. June 22, 2009.
Hobbling along with her leg in a cast, Sotomayor was 10 minutes late for a meeting with Tennessee Senator Bob Corker.
Karl Frisch, Media Matters for America. June 22, 2009.
Each and every day conservative radio hosts, cable-news hosts, pundits and columnists use divisive, insensitive, and downright hateful rhetoric.
Agence France Presse June 17, 2009.
President Obama's popularity is slipping; his overall approval rating slid from 61 percent to 56 percent.
Emily Badger, Miller-McCune.com. June 12, 2009.
For over 120 years, the idea that a judge's background would influence how they approached cases was conventional wisdom. Why isn't it now?
Rachel Weiner, Huffington Post AlterNet: Politics. June 3, 2009.
Even Gingrich thinks he went too far when he called Judge Sonia Sotomayor a racist.
Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post AlterNet: Media and Technology. June 2, 2009.
"The first thing that happens in a revolutionary era is the great figures of the old era get discredited."
