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Justice Sonia Sotomayor will throw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Yankees’ final home game on Saturday:
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Sonia Sotomayor, the nation’s first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, will help the Yankees commemorate Hispanic Heritage Month by throwing out the first pitch before Saturday’s game against the Red Sox.
The Bronx native, who on Aug. [...]
As I noted yesterday, only nine Republicans voted in favor of Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court, and Electoral-Vote.com has the list and a probably explanation for why they felt able to do it:
The votes from the retiring Senators, along with Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, are pretty easy to understand. As for the [...]
Sometime later today, the United States Senate will vote to confirm Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court:
WASHINGTON – Sonia Sotomayor is poised to make history as the Supreme Court’s first Hispanic justice despite staunch opposition from Republicans who call her ill-suited for the bench, a pending victory for Democrats who believe her confirmation will [...]
You can count John Cornyn and Orrin Hatch as “nay” votes:
WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. John Cornyn, the head of his party’s Senate campaign arm, said Friday he’ll vote against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, siding with GOP leaders and conservatives who are lining up against President Barack Obama’s nominee to be the first Hispanic justice.
The [...]
Senator Jeff Sessions has announced that the GOP will not attempt to filibuster the Sotomayor nomination:
Judge Sonia Sotomayor ended four days of testimony this afternoon with prospects of rapid confirmation to the Supreme Court improved, as a conservative Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee edged toward endorsing her and the panel’s ranking Republican said the [...]
It’s Wise Latina (to the tune of My Sharona) !
Did someone say My Sharona ?
H/T: Stephen Green
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