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29 May 2009, 9:46 am by Legal Talk Network
Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi discuss the Sotomayor nomination with Professor Jenny Rivera, Director of Center on Latino and Latina Rights and Equality and Professor of Law at CUNY School of Law, and Professor Stephen Wermiel, Supreme Court expert and adjunct professor at American University Washington College. [read post]
29 May 2009, 6:52 am
" The Associated Press has a report headlined "Two sides of Sotomayor" that begins, "There are two sides to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor: a Latina from a blue-collar family and a wealthy member of America's power elite. [read post]
29 May 2009, 3:31 am
A Brief History of Presidential Spin on Female Court Nominees from O'Connor to Sotomayor Debate Over Who Sotomayor Is a Sensitive One Sotomayor Disclosure Form: Despite Gambling Win, Supreme Court Nominee of Relatively Modest Means A Latina Judge's Voice: Judge Sonia Sotomayor's 2001 Address to the 'Raising the Bar' Symposium at the UC Berkeley School of Law Legal Realism Informs Judge Sotomayor's Views read more [read post]
28 May 2009, 8:45 pm
Broder has an op-ed entitled "A Choice for the GOP"; and Dana Milbank has a "Washington Sketch" essay headlined "Latina Woman, Tongue-Tied Man. [read post]
28 May 2009, 5:09 pm
Sotomayor, if confirmed by the Senate, will be the first Latina and only the third woman to ever sit on the Supreme Court. [read post]
28 May 2009, 9:51 am
 Further complicating the dynamics is the fact that Judge Sotomayor would be the first female Latina Justice to preside on the Supreme Court. [read post]
28 May 2009, 9:46 am
  Once the public is comfortable with her suitability, then the irreducible political reality is that there is no serious prospect of vigorously challenging the nation's first Latina Supreme Court nominee when the President's party has an overwhelming numerical advantage in the Senate. [read post]
28 May 2009, 6:50 am
  If confirmed, Justice Sotomayor will be the first Latina, the first woman of color, and only the third woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court [...] [read post]
28 May 2009, 3:32 am
Some people in a political party that barely contains any nonwhite members believe they can win a public relations battle describing a Latina as a racist. [read post]
28 May 2009, 3:01 am
 The following has been circulating in the blogosphere:Sotomayor also claimed: "For me, a very special part of my being Latina is the  mucho platos de arroz, gandoles y pernir  -- rice, beans and pork -- that I have eaten at countless family holidays and special events. [read post]
27 May 2009, 9:05 pm
After some consideration, I have decided that Sonia Sotomayor's 2001 speech, "A Latina Judge's Voice" deserves more extensive analysis than I gave it in a previous post. [read post]
27 May 2009, 10:16 am
Kevin Johnson is cited heavily in this interesting piece by Carla Marinucci in the San Francisco Chronicle: President Obama's pick of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court represents a brilliant political strategy that could bring Latino voters, the nation's... [read post]
27 May 2009, 9:06 am by Clerquette LeClerq
 In addition, SS's discussion of how her judicial philosophy is informed by being a Latina woman can hardly be attacked without the risk of offending Latinos and women, whom the GOP can ill-afford to piss off. [read post]
27 May 2009, 3:35 am
Hi kids -- are you sick to death yet of all the hacktacular Sotomayor coverage? [read post]
27 May 2009, 12:04 am
Much has been made of Judge Sotomayor's pointing out that she views cases with a perspective that reflects her gender, ethnicity, and experiences. [read post]
26 May 2009, 9:01 pm
All knew the media would not be able to resist shoehorning Sotomayor into identity niches -- stressing that if confirmed she'll be the 1st Latina and the 3d woman ever on the Court. [read post]
26 May 2009, 4:46 pm
She was not articulating some theory that only Latina women can be good judges. [read post]