United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor of New York speaks as President Barack Obama (R) listens after announcing her as his Supreme Court nominee in the East Room of the White House May 26, 2009 in Washington, DC. If confirmed, Sotomayor will be the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice in the nation's history, replacing Supreme Court Justice David Souter. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Barack Obama;Sonia Sotomayor (Getty Images)more pics »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, fresh off a bruising battle over healthcare, could face another tough fight in Congress to fill a U.S. Supreme Court vacancy if 89-year-old Justice John Paul Stevens retires as expected. A confirmation battle could sidetrack Democratic plans to focus on the economy and job creation ahead of November's congressional elections in which Republicans are hoping to regain control of Congress. Obama secured Senate confirmation last year of Sonia...Read Full Story
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden met on Tuesday with Diane Wood, a federal appeals court judge seen as one of the most liberal of the potential nominees for the U.S. Supreme Court, a source with knowledge of the conversations said on Wednesday. With congressional elections ahead in November, Obama is expected to decide quickly on a nominee for the seat being vacated by Justice John Paul Stevens. The retiring justice is the leading liberal on the court...Read Full Story
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama could announce his second nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court as soon as this week, administration officials said, although they declined on Tuesday to say how many names were left on his short list of candidates. Obama has been expected to decide quickly on who he would like to fill the seat being vacated by retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, with critical congressional elections looming in November. Elena Kagan, the U.S. solicitor general; Diane...Read Full Story
Pop quiz: Which Republican presidential candidate supported the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor? Hint: Its the same one who endorsed a pro-abortion-rights presidential candidate in an earlier campaign. Give up? The answer is Rick Santorum. Santorum was rightly known as a conservative firebrand during his 12 years in the Senate, but the 1998 confirmation vote for Sonia Sotomayor to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals was a notable exception, and...
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor recently stopped by Sesame Street to have a cup of coffee with her friend Maria and ended up settling the Goldilocks v. Baby Bear case. Next on the docket: The Three Little Pigs v. The Big Bad Wolf. “Are you kidding? I wish all my cases were this easy.” via [...]
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke to the interns of the House and Senate in June of 2010. At a Q&A afterwards, she was asked multiple questions from interns on a wide variety of topics including negative law and utilitarianism, conflicts of legal views and personal views, and the Yale/Harvard situation then pending in the court. One of my former students, a senate intern, got up to ask a question and was the very last one allowed to...
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor spent a week in Hawaiʻi as part of the Jurist-in-Residence program at the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. During her visit to the law school ...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has recently visited Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, where she has addressed civic groups, local judges and attorneys, and other public gatherings. See this Saipan Tribune article about the trip’s conclusion. This article, and other articles about the visit, imply that she is the first U.S. Supreme Court [...]
Supreme Court Justice Sonia
Sotomayor filed an interesting and heartening
concurring opinion in U.S. v. Jones, yesterday's
decision requiring a warrant to track a suspect by attaching a
GPS device to his car. Although Sotomayor joined the
majority opinion by Antonin Scalia, she clearly was concerned
about the limits of his rationale, which focused on the trespass
involved in attaching the transmitter and therefore did not address...
DUMMERSTON, Vt. -- The speed with which Sonia Sotomayor was attacked by conservatives this week shows how high the stakes are in the upcoming confirmation hearings that will decide if she gets to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court this fall. Sotomayor ...
Sonia Sotomayor (born June 25, 1954 in The Bronx, New York) is a federal judge on the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Sotomayor is considered to be a leading ...
CNN.com is reporting that President Obama will nominate federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the U.S. Supreme Court. If confirmed, she will be the first Hispanic and third female U.S ...
President Obama will nominate appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court on Tuesday, officials said, making her the first Hispanic in history to be elevated to the ...
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama chose federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor to become the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice on Tuesday, praising her as "an inspiring woman&qu