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• Editorial: Al-Kidd wins small measure of empathy

  June 3, 2011 in Opinion on Page A11 Tuesday’s unanimous ruling in a Supreme Court case involving a former University of Idaho student may have left the false impression that tap-dancing on the Fourth Amendment is noncontroversial, at … 2

• Sotomayor jumps into Supreme Court role

  October 6, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – By midmorning on the first day of the Supreme Court’s term, it was clear new Justice Sonia Sotomayor will fit right in – and in particular with her …

• Change coming to U.S. Supreme Court

  October 5, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – Justice David Souter never danced the salsa in public. Justice John Paul Stevens doesn’t sing in karaoke bars. And Chief Justice John Roberts hasn’t thrown out the first …

• Sotomayor’s first vote sought to spare killer

  August 19, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – Newly seated Justice Sonia Sotomayor has cast her first recorded vote on the Supreme Court, joining three liberal justices in an unsuccessful effort to stop an execution in …

• Senate confirms Sotomayor for Supreme Court

  August 6, 2009 in Nation/World WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed Sonia Sotomayor Thursday as the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court.

• Nation in brief: Sotomayor gains Republican votes

  August 6, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 Washington – Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor won more GOP support in her drive toward near-certain Senate confirmation today as the first Hispanic justice. Republican Sens. Kit Bond of Missouri …

• Vote foretells partisan pattern of opposition

  July 29, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – Republicans’ unflinching opposition to Judge Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday drew a partisan line in the sand, signaling that future Barack Obama nominees to the Supreme Court are unlikely …

• Risch, Crapo oppose Sotomayor’s confirmation

  July 27, 2009 Idaho Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch, both Republicans, said today they will vote against confirming Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.

• Sotomayor vote delayed

  July 22, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans on Tuesday blocked the consideration of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor for a week, saying that they needed time to study her record, even …

• Editorial: Lots to learn from process in Senate for Sotomayor

  July 17, 2009 in Opinion on Page A15 Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings have provided moments of tension and moments of levity. It’s been a refreshing demonstration of national political leaders’ ability to temper serious advocacy with respectful civility. …

• Sotomayor deflects abortion queries

  July 16, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor refused Wednesday to detail her personal views on abortion, saying she couldn’t answer questions about the law “in the abstract,” as Republican senators …

• Sotomayor pushes back on racial basis questions

  July 15, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, deflecting tough questioning by Republicans on the second day of her confirmation hearings, said Tuesday that in 17 years as a judge she … 1

• Sotomayor vows impartiality if confirmed to court

  July 13, 2009 in Nation/World Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic Supreme Court nominee in history, vowed loyalty to “the impartiality of our justice system” Monday, confronting Republican skeptics at Senate hearings suffused with racial politics … 1

• Sotomayor hearings begin today

  July 13, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – Sonia Sotomayor has decided advantages as she begins the most important trial of her long legal career, a nationally televised consideration of her nomination to be the first …

• David S. Broder: Court can’t kill race issue

  July 5, 2009 in Opinion on Page B8 The implicit message delivered by the Supreme Court majority, in two of the most important decisions of the term that ended this week, is that racial discrimination is no longer …

• Court reverses ruling on race

  June 30, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – In a closely watched case that could have a broad effect on hiring and promotion policies, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that white firefighters who earned top test … 1

• Court rules for white firefighters over promotions

  June 29, 2009 in Nation/World The Supreme Court has ruled that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed … 1

• In brief: Hearings set on Sotomayor

  June 10, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 Washington – Senate Democrats, determined to seat Sonia Sotomayor on the Supreme Court quickly, announced mid-July hearings on her nomination Tuesday in a move that surprised Republicans. GOP leaders lashed …

• Sotomayor’s records sent to Congress

  June 5, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – Judge Sonia Sotomayor, already facing controversy for a 2001 speech on the virtue of having “a wise Latina” as a judge, made similar comments in a series of …

• Sotomayor criticism eases

  June 4, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – After an initial burst of often personal criticism of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, some conservatives are scaling back their attacks and admitting that her judicial record is …

• David S. Broder: Just say yes to Sotomayor

  May 28, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 It is as close to certain as anything gets in Washington that Judge Sonia Sotomayor is on her way to the Supreme Court. What impact she will have there is …

• Nomination elicits muted reaction

  May 27, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama decided Tuesday to send to the Supreme Court a veteran federal judge from New York whose humble upbringing and moderate-to-liberal record on the bench is …

• Obama picks Sotomayor for high court

  May 26, 2009 in Nation/World President Barack Obama named federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor as the nation’s first Hispanic Supreme Court justice on Tuesday, praising her as “an inspiring woman” with both the intellect and …

• N.Y. judge rises from projects to Supreme Court

  May 26, 2009 in Nation/World Sonia Sotomayor’s path to the pinnacle of the legal profession began in the 1960s at a Bronx housing project just a couple of blocks from Yankee Stadium, where she and …

• Text of Obama nominating a Supreme Court justice

  May 25, 2009 in Nation/World Text of President Barack Obama nominating Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court on Tuesday, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions.

• Remarks of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor

  May 25, 2009 in Nation/World Text of Sonia Sotomayor’s remarks on Tuesday after President Barack Obama announced her nomination to the Supreme Court, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions.