easttexasonline.com » supreme court http://easttexasonline.com/blogs Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:07:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Sen. Patrick Leahy: On the Nomination of Sonia Sotomayor http://easttexasonline.com/blogs/2009/05/26/sen-patrick-leahy-on-the-nomination-of-sonia-sotomayor/ http://easttexasonline.com/blogs/2009/05/26/sen-patrick-leahy-on-the-nomination-of-sonia-sotomayor/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 15:04:37 +0000 http://easttexasonline.com/blogs/?p=351 From the Huffington Post:
“[Sonia Sotomayor] has been nominated by both Democratic and Republican presidents, and she was twice confirmed by the Senate with strong, bipartisan support. Her record is exemplary. Judge Sotomayor’s nomination is an historic one, and when confirmed she will become the first Hispanic Justice, and just the third woman to sit on the nation’s highest court. Having a Supreme Court that better reflects the diversity of America helps ensure that we keep faith with the words engraved in Vermont marble over the entrance of the Supreme Court: ‘Equal justice under law.’ ”

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