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If Barack Obama thought Ms Sotomayor would vote to overturn Roe, he would not have nominated her to the Supreme Court.

During confirmation hearings last month, Sotomayor said the statement was a "rhetorical flourish that fell flat. "

Republican attacks on her can easily be portrayed as white guys in suits trying to keep a qualified Latina down.

Her mother, Celina Sotomayor was also presented with an award.

I have decided to nominate an inspiring woman who I believe will make a great justice, Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the great state of New York.

All day, political talk shows chew over Sotomayor's comments, with conservative commentators labeling Sotomayor a racist.

Ms Sotomayor is a decent judge who performed well in her Senate hearings, but she makes an inviting target for Mr Obama's opponents.

Of course, she did not want to repeat it on television.

The Republicans who have been critical of her past remarks on race are expected to give Sotomayor a grilling today.

Yet Justice Sotomayor chose to speak from the heart, not the bench.

Justice Sotomayor's rise from the humble beginnings to the height of achievement is yet another symbol of that faith.

All her children were born to her first husband, engineer Luis Martinez de Irujo, son of the Duke of Sotomayor.

Yesterday, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor fell and broke her ankle, and she's expected to be on crutches for several weeks.

Ms Sotomayor seems hazy on this point.

Sotomayor: Why isn't that obscene in the sense that you're using the word, or deviant?

The president said pointing to Sonia Sotomayor's 17 years experience as a federal judge is one reason he picked her.

But the case got special attention because one of the judges was Sonia Sotomayor.

Sotomayor was nominated to be a federal trial court judge by President George H. W. Bush, a Republican, in 1992.

Sotomayor currently serves as a U. S. appeals court judge in the northeastern United States.

As a lower-court judge, she was bound by Supreme Court precedent.

Sotomayor yesterday had her first opportunity to publicly rebut months allegations of judicial bias that followed her appointment in May.

have found it difficult to maintain a relationship while I've pursued my career, ' Ms. Sotomayor also said in a television interview.

Her latest obsession is Sonia Sotomayor, Obama's nomination for the new ninth member of the supreme court.

Sotomayor's presence on the court is of special historic significance because she is the first Hispanic-American member.

Democrats infuriated Republicans by setting July 13th as the date for hearings on Sonia Sotomayor, Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee.

He adds that Ms. Sotomayor's life 'overlaps with a broader class of high achievers.

If the Senate confirms her, Ms Sotomayor will be the first Hispanic appointed to the court, and only the third woman.

President Obama has officially nominated the Appeals Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor to fill the vacancy on the US Supreme Court.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor invokes government tax credits for "solar-powered homes and fuel-efficient cars. "

Last summer he appointed Sonia Sotomayor, the court's first Latina judge.

Introducing Ms Sotomayor to the nation, Mr Obama applauded her intellect and her broad legal experience.

Sotomayor says there were so many white males in Princeton, she felt like she was testifying in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

First husband died in 1972, son of the Duke of Sotomayor Atta Sike Si, her current six children are all born with the first husband.

They worry that Ms Sotomayor takes a more expansive view of judicial authority: she once said that appeals-court judges make policy.

Quite simply, Judge Sotomayor has a deep familiarity with our judicial system from almost every angle.

Equally worrying to conservatives, Ms Sotomayor has said that sex and ethnicity may influence a judge's decisions.

How Ms Sotomayor will shape the court is hard to discern.

And later this month she will be back on those court steps, demonstrating against Sotomayor's nomination.

The full Senate deliberated on Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court.

Sonia Sotomayor may never win a Miss America pageant, but boohoo, she's a Supreme Court justice.

Obama appointed a Latina to the Supreme Court this week, Sonia Sotomayor.

The coming argument about Ms Sotomayor will be riven with identity politics.

Unkind critics question Ms Sotomayor's intellect.

Sonia Sotomayor was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice after the Senate voted 68-31 to confirm her nomination.

Some observers think Ms Sotomayor will make little difference to the Court, since she is a liberal replacing another liberal.

A New York federal judge, Sotomayor, 55, is the first high court justice nominated by a Democrat in 15 years.

That is a crowd reacting in Los Angeles after they learned the Senate confirmed Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.

Sotomayor: Could you get rid of rap music?

Ms. Sotomayor was subsequently engaged, but that 8-year relationship ended, too before they went to the altar.

She's expected to fall short of Sotomayor's 68-vote haul but surpass Alito's 58 votes.

Many of them may live in the huge low-income housing complex that has just been named in Justice Sotomayor's honor.

The debate over judges and empathy played a part in the Senate confirmation process for Sonia Sotomayor.

For 10 minutes, Obama talks about nothing except Sotomayor and the "nonsense that is being spewed out. "

I know that Justice Sotomayor will serve this nation with distinction.

She is a Federal appeals judge. Sonia Sotomayor, I think her name is.

The Senate Judiciary Committee endorsed Sonia Sotomayor's appointment to the Supreme Court;