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Sonia Sotomayor confirmed by Senate: First Latina on the U.S. Supreme Court
The Swampby James Oliphant and David E. Savage and updated at 5 pm. Sonia Sotomayor completed an unlikely and historic journey today, one that began with her birth in a Bronx, New York, housing project 55 years ago and culminated in......Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Politics, Career and Workplace, Jeff Sessions, Social Issues
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Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace
The SwampBy Mark Silva updated at 11:45 am, 2 and 3:45 pm EDT President Barack Obama, who has pledged to place diplomacy ahead of confrontation and reached out to a skeptical world with offers of mutual understanding, was awarded the Nobel......Tags: Islam, Bo (dog), Michael Steele, Alfred Nobel, United Nations
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Holder defends terrorist trial in New York
The Swampby Michael Muskal Atty. Gen. Eric Holder today defended the Obama administration's decision to try professed terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in federal court and denied the move would give Mohammed a propaganda forum. "At the end of the day,.....Tags: Eric Holder, Trials, Unrest, Conflicts and War, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Manhattan (New York City)
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Sunday shows: H. Clinton, Giuliani, Dunn, Duncan
Top of the TicketAlso Peter Orszag, Sens. Jack Reed, Mitch McConnell, Kent Conrad, ex-Speaker Newt Gingrich and David Axelrod.... -
Obama's politics: 'Back to my start'
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama, who has returned to Washington from a couple of days on the road to find Republicans ready to start debating financinal regulation, says that tours like the one he made of Iowa, Missouri and......Tags: Corporate Crime, Migration, Politics, Career and Workplace, Armed Forces
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Expletives: A big ... deal
Readers' Representative JournalFor supporters of healthcare reform, President Obama’s signing of the legislation passed by the House on Sunday night was a big deal. A really big deal. A big … deal, according to Vice President Joe Biden, who filled in the...... -
Elena Kagan confirmation fight plays out on YouTube
Top of the TicketThe political fight over Solicitor General Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court is going virtual. One day after President Obama nominated Kagan, Vice President Biden said she was "the right age," hinting at one of the factors that led...... -
Sunday morning: Elena Kagan is Topic A, but ‘Fox News Sunday’ has Laura Bush, Newt Gingrich
The TV Guy» Orlando Sentinel – The TV GuyPresident Barack Obama's choice of Solicitor General Elena Kagan for the U.S. Supreme Court will be mulled on the Sunday morning chat shows. Here's the lineup: ***NBC's “Meet the Press” talks to Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Charles... -
Supreme Court Extends 2nd Amendment Protection To State, Local Levels
Staff reporterThe Supreme Court ruled Monday that cities and states must abide by the 2nd Amendment, strengthening the rights of gun owners and opening a new chapter in the national debate over gun control. In a 5-4 decision, the justices said the right to have a...Tags: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Los Angeles, Interior Policy, Trials, Washington, DC
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Immigration votes lacking: White House
The Swampby Peter Nicholas and Peter Wallsten White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said today that there is not enough support in Congress now to pass a comprehensive immigration bill providing a path to citizenship for the nation's illegal immigrants,......Tags: Xavier Becerra, Arlen Specter, Migration, Zoe Lofgren, Loretta Sanchez
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Judge Sonia: Herb Kohl gets no respect
Spin CycleAfter Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) led off in the questioning of Judge Sonia Sotomayor focusing on her infamous "wise Latina" comment and her opinion on the contentious New Haven firefighter and Washington, D.C., gun......Tags: Kohl's Illinois, Inc., Satellite and Cable Service, Sonia Sotomayor, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), U.S. Senate
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Judge Sonia: Rhetorical flourish fell flat
Spin CycleAfter repeated questioning on her "wise Latina" quotation by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), left, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor bends in her defense of her words, that she was trying to inspire young Latinos that their life experiences would......Tags: Laws, Minority Groups, National or Ethnic Minorities, Sonia Sotomayor, Jeff Sessions
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