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Alberto Gonzales: Sotomayor 'powerful'
The Swampby Mark Silva Add Alberto Gonzales, attorney general under President George W. Bush and the first Hispanic attorney general of the United States, to the lineup praising the cultural significance of Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination for the Supreme Court....Tags: CNN (tv network), Justice System, Population, Texas, National or Ethnic Minorities
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Sotomayor: Fast-track vs. Slow-walk
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated. The White House is seeking swift Senate confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, as Republican congressional leaders suggest they may be in no rush. While critics challenge...Tags: Laws, Justice System, Upper House, Government, Politics
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Patrick Leahy: Sotomayor's day is here
The Swampby Mark Silva Sen. Patrick Leahy, now chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, once warned that Latino candidates for the federal courts were being held up by a Republican-run Senate. In particular: Judge Sonia Sotomayor, a federal judge first...Tags: Court Administration, Justice System, Parliament, Sonia Sotomayor, Upper House
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Sotomayor: Hispanic 'legitimacy'
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated President Barack Obama, elected to the White House with two-thirds of the votes cast by Hispanic Americans, has made some history of his own -- first African-American elected president -- and now has nominated the......Tags: Court Administration, Justice System, Arts and Culture, Executive Branch, Polls
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Sotomayor: 'Piece of cake,' she's told
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama already knew one of the finalists for the Supreme Court whom he was considering: federal Judge Diane Wood of Chicago, a fellow teacher of constitutional law at the University of Chicago. But the president......Tags: Laws, Judaism, University of Chicago, Civil Unrest, Colleges and Universities
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Obama's Vegas chips: Harry Reid, all in
The Swampby Mark Silva With just 35-percent support back home in Nevada, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid might have a reelection problem. If he only had an opponent. Hoping to keep the opposition at bay and avert the home-state implosion that......Tags: Super Bowl, Executive Branch, Indiana, Jim Gibbons, Parliament
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Obama's wreaths: Afro-Amer., Confed.
The Swampby Mark Silva Today, there were wreaths to go around. Several dozen professors had called upon the first African-American president to forgo a Memorial Day tradition of laying a wreath at a monument to Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery,....Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Chicago, Social Issues, National or Ethnic Minorities, Government
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Obama: North Korea demands 'action'
The Swampby Mark Silva On his way to Arlington National Cemetery today, President Barack Obama paused to address the nuclear test that North Korea has carried out, to say that the international community must "stand up'' and "take action'' on North......Tags: National Government, Barack Obama, United Nations, Missile Systems, Defense
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Twitter: Congressional reality show
The Swampby Mark Silva Finally, a television reality show in which members of Congress can compete. It may not sound like much of a plot: Watching people text-message one another. But then, one gets to answer the brief text-queries Webcast for......Tags: Missouri, National Government, Twitter, Inc., World War II (1939-1945), Television Industry
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North Korea nuclear test 'warrants action'
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama, calling North Korea's reported underground nuclear test a "matter of grave concern,'' said early today that not only this, but also the apparent testing of another short-range missile "warrants action by the...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Diplomacy, International Relations, White House, Japan
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Obama's new top-court nominee: Reaction begins
Spin CyclePresident Barack Obama's selection of Sonia Sotomayor for the U.S. Supreme Court has two predictable consequences: Celebration of the first Hispanic appointment -- she's Puerto Rican from the Bronx -- mingled with "conservative" admonishments that she's...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Barack Obama, Sonia Sotomayor, Fires, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Obama: Cybersecurity 21st Cen. threat
The Swampby Mark Silva Calling the protection of government and private information and communications networks "one of the most serious... security challenges of the 21st Century,'' President Barack Obama plans to appoint a new advisor to oversee a national...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Computer Crime, Arts and Culture, White House, Crime, Law and Justice
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