<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - justice-sonia-sotomayor</title><link>http://www.newsvine.com/justice-sonia-sotomayor</link><description>Newsvine - justice-sonia-sotomayor</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 11:24:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 10:20:37 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>  Supreme Court refuses to hear challenge to Obamacare contraception requirement </title>
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The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a request by the Hobby Lobby chain of arts and crafts stores to temporarily block a provision in the Affordable Care Act making employers responsible for covering the insurance costs of their employees&rsquo; birth control,&nbsp;NBC News r&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Soph0571]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Soph0571]]></source><link>http://smd12364.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/27/16186438-supreme-court-refuses-to-hear-challenge-to-obamacare-contraception-requirement</link><guid>http://smd12364.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/27/16186438-supreme-court-refuses-to-hear-challenge-to-obamacare-contraception-requirement</guid><category>politics</category><category>supreme-court</category><category>tea-party</category><category>justice-sonia-sotomayor</category><category>affordable-care-act</category><pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 11:23:38 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=smd123646809B401-673C-39E4-17C6-6E9EA9502E94.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="225" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=smd123646809B401-673C-39E4-17C6-6E9EA9502E94.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>A Failure of Vigilance </title>
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In the trial of Alex Blueford, an Arkansas jury voted him not guilty on charges of capital and first-degree murder, but deadlocked on lesser charges. By a 6-to-3 vote last week, the Supreme Court misguidedly ruled that the state can retry him on all charges, including those for&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ms CYPRAH]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Ms CYPRAH]]></source><link>http://mscyprah.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/28/11917879-a-failure-of-vigilance</link><guid>http://mscyprah.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/28/11917879-a-failure-of-vigilance</guid><category>arkansas</category><category>supreme-court</category><category>us-news</category><category>capital-murder</category><category>vigilance</category><category>justice-sonia-sotomayor</category><category>alex-blueford</category><category>threat-to-individual-freedom</category><pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 12:04:04 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Broccoli and Bad Faith </title>
<description><![CDATA[Given the stakes, one might have expected all the court's members to be very careful in speaking about both health care realities and legal precedents. In reality, however, the second day of hearings suggested that the justices most hostile to the law don't understand, or choose &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[proglib]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[proglib]]></source><link>http://proglib.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/30/10944993-broccoli-and-bad-faith</link><guid>http://proglib.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/30/10944993-broccoli-and-bad-faith</guid><category>politics</category><category>health-care</category><category>supreme-court</category><category>ronald-reagan</category><category>antonin-scalia</category><category>justice-sonia-sotomayor</category><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:47:05 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=proglib8B76DAAD-6D67-83E9-AB3C-471938C28077.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="75" width="75" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=proglib8B76DAAD-6D67-83E9-AB3C-471938C28077.jpg&amp;width=120" width="75" height="75" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Unreasonable Strip-Searches </title>
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Do jails have the right to strip-search anyone in custody, even for a minor offense, if there is no reason to suspect the person is concealing a weapon, drugs or other contraband? The Supreme Court heard arguments on this question last week.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ms CYPRAH]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Ms CYPRAH]]></source><link>http://mscyprah.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/17/8362551-unreasonable-strip-searches</link><guid>http://mscyprah.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/17/8362551-unreasonable-strip-searches</guid><category>custody</category><category>drugs</category><category>weapon</category><category>us-news</category><category>fourth-amendment</category><category>contraband</category><category>strip-searches</category><category>justice-sonia-sotomayor</category><category>albert-florence</category><category>minor-offense</category><category>privacy-of-people</category><pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:53:34 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Miranda rights for youth - </title>
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It's obvious &mdash; except to a minority of the Supreme Court &mdash; that a juvenile being questioned by the police will feel less able to get up and leave than an adult in the same situation.&nbsp;
The 5-4 ruling arises from the interrogation of a 13-year-old North Carolina b&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[rescue dogs62]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[rescue dogs62]]></source><link>http://onesearch4-2.newsvine.com/_news/2011/06/21/6909421-miranda-rights-for-youth</link><guid>http://onesearch4-2.newsvine.com/_news/2011/06/21/6909421-miranda-rights-for-youth</guid><category>young</category><category>juveniles</category><category>sentences</category><category>crime</category><category>supreme-court</category><category>us-news</category><category>jury</category><category>miranda</category><category>samuel-a-alito-jr</category><category>miranda-rights</category><category>justice-sonia-sotomayor</category><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:00:52 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=http3A2F2Fwww.newsvine.com2F_vine2Fimages2Fusers2Fonesearch4-22F6909398.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="105" width="187" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=http3A2F2Fwww.newsvine.com2F_vine2Fimages2Fusers2Fonesearch4-22F6909398.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Newest Justices Join Majority, Side with Police in Exclusionary Rule Case</title>
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The 7-2 lineup in a Supreme Court opinion today siding with the  prosecution in an exclusionary rule case is raising some eyebrows.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan were part of a majority  decision holding that evidence may be used at trial when it is obtained  in a sea&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake-413451]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jake-413451]]></source><link>http://jake-413451.newsvine.com/_news/2011/06/19/6892176-newest-justices-join-majority-side-with-police-in-exclusionary-rule-case</link><guid>http://jake-413451.newsvine.com/_news/2011/06/19/6892176-newest-justices-join-majority-side-with-police-in-exclusionary-rule-case</guid><category>supreme-court</category><category>us-news</category><category>search-and-seizure</category><category>ruth-bader-ginsburg</category><category>elena-kagan</category><category>justice-sonia-sotomayor</category><category>justice-samuel</category><category>justices-john-paul-stevens</category><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 11:59:13 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Why does Justice Scalia insult his colleagues? </title>
<description><![CDATA[In a recent dissenting argument, Scalia blasted a majority opinion written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor as a "gross distortion of the facts," "utter nonsense," and "unprincipled," among other choice phrases.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[proglib]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[proglib]]></source><link>http://proglib.newsvine.com/_news/2011/03/12/6253617-why-does-justice-scalia-insult-his-colleagues</link><guid>http://proglib.newsvine.com/_news/2011/03/12/6253617-why-does-justice-scalia-insult-his-colleagues</guid><category>politics</category><category>supreme-court</category><category>justice-antonin-scalia</category><category>justice-sonia-sotomayor</category><pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:36:42 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Is Justice Thomas on strike?  Passive-Agressive?  Not too bright?</title>
<description><![CDATA[Eight justices of the Supreme Court engaged in a fast-paced argument Tuesday morning over whether a female microbiologist who tried to poison her husband's lover with a toxic chemical could be charged under a federal law intended to regulate chemical weapons.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[jade-log]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[jade-log]]></source><link>http://jade-log.newsvine.com/_news/2011/02/22/6108167-is-justice-thomas-on-strike-passive-agressive-not-too-bright</link><guid>http://jade-log.newsvine.com/_news/2011/02/22/6108167-is-justice-thomas-on-strike-passive-agressive-not-too-bright</guid><category>politics</category><category>supreme-court</category><category>poison</category><category>justice-antonin-scalia</category><category>love-triangle</category><category>justice-clarence-thomas</category><category>justice-sonia-sotomayor</category><pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:18:31 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Sotomayor takes vocal role on her first day </title>
<description><![CDATA[She's no shrinking violet.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[caroaber]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[caroaber]]></source><link>http://caroaber.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/06/3353803-sotomayor-takes-vocal-role-on-her-first-day</link><guid>http://caroaber.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/06/3353803-sotomayor-takes-vocal-role-on-her-first-day</guid><category>politics</category><category>u-s-supreme-court</category><category>the-judiciary</category><category>justice-sonia-sotomayor</category><pubDate>Tue, 6 Oct 2009 15:01:30 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Sotomayor's impact on trial as high court returns to work - USATODAY.com</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court begins its new term Monday with high-profile disputes over gun rights, animal cruelty and life in prison for juvenile offenders.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rodney-889389]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Rodney-889389]]></source><link>http://magic3400.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/01/3340145-sotomayors-impact-on-trial-as-high-court-returns-to-work-usatodaycom</link><guid>http://magic3400.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/01/3340145-sotomayors-impact-on-trial-as-high-court-returns-to-work-usatodaycom</guid><category>chief-justice-john-roberts</category><category>us-news</category><category>justice-john-paul-stevens</category><category>justice-samuel-alito</category><category>justice-antonin-scalia</category><category>justice-stephen-breyer</category><category>justice-anthony-kennedy</category><category>justice-clarence-thomas</category><category>justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg</category><category>the-supreme-court</category><category>justice-sonia-sotomayor</category><pubDate>Fri, 2 Oct 2009 00:07:13 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>An evening with Justice Sonia Sotomayor</title>
<description><![CDATA[Anyone who is anyone in the NY state judiciary was on hand tonight, Thursday, September 24, to salute the newly-sworn Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor at a function held in the Civil Supreme Court at 60 Centre Street in lower Manhattan.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[caroaber]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[caroaber]]></source><link>http://caroaber.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/25/3313048-an-evening-with-justice-sonia-sotomayor</link><guid>http://caroaber.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/25/3313048-an-evening-with-justice-sonia-sotomayor</guid><category>politics</category><category>the-supreme-court</category><category>justice-sonia-sotomayor</category><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:14:09 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Senate Confirms Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court - washingtonpost.com</title>
<description><![CDATA[Sonia Sotomayor won confirmation Thursday afternoon as the nation's 111th Supreme Court justice and the first Hispanic on the court, a historic moment for the nation's fastest-growing minority group.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[multifariousone]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[multifariousone]]></source><link>http://multifariousone.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/06/3126982-senate-confirms-sonia-sotomayor-for-supreme-court-washingtonpostcom</link><guid>http://multifariousone.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/06/3126982-senate-confirms-sonia-sotomayor-for-supreme-court-washingtonpostcom</guid><category>hispanic</category><category>us-news</category><category>justice-sonia-sotomayor</category><category>111th-supreme-court</category><pubDate>Thu, 6 Aug 2009 21:19:41 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>For Puerto Ricans, Sotomayor's Success Stirs Pride</title>
<description><![CDATA[In the summer of 1959, Edwin Torres landed a $60-a-week job and wound up on the front page of El Diario. He had just been hired as the first Puerto Rican assistant district attorney in New York — and probably, he thinks, the entire United States.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[multifariousone]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[multifariousone]]></source><link>http://multifariousone.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/06/3126913-for-puerto-ricans-sotomayors-success-stirs-pride</link><guid>http://multifariousone.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/06/3126913-for-puerto-ricans-sotomayors-success-stirs-pride</guid><category>puerto-rico</category><category>new-york</category><category>united-states</category><category>us-news</category><category>el-diario</category><category>justice-sonia-sotomayor</category><category>edwin-torres</category><category>purto-rican</category><category>assistant-district-attorney</category><pubDate>Thu, 6 Aug 2009 21:07:16 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Sotomayor Confirmation Vote Breakdown</title>
<description><![CDATA[Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed today to be our new Supreme Court Justice. The total vote tally was 68-31. Below, the breakdown of the vote.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[multifariousone]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[multifariousone]]></source><link>http://multifariousone.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/06/3126893-sotomayor-confirmation-vote-breakdown</link><guid>http://multifariousone.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/06/3126893-sotomayor-confirmation-vote-breakdown</guid><category>supreme-court</category><category>us-news</category><category>supreme-court-justice</category><category>justice-sonia-sotomayor</category><pubDate>Thu, 6 Aug 2009 20:59:22 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Senate Approves Sotomayor to Supreme Court</title>
<description><![CDATA[Voting largely along party lines, the Senate on Thursday confirmed Judge Sonia Sotomayor as the 111th justice of the Supreme Court. She will be the first Hispanic and the third woman to serve on the court.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[multifariousone]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[multifariousone]]></source><link>http://multifariousone.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/06/3126858-senate-approves-sotomayor-to-supreme-court</link><guid>http://multifariousone.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/06/3126858-senate-approves-sotomayor-to-supreme-court</guid><category>supreme-court</category><category>us-news</category><category>justice-sonia-sotomayor</category><category>111th-justice-of-the-supreme-court</category><pubDate>Thu, 6 Aug 2009 20:50:31 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Sotomayor Confirmed To Supreme Court</title>
<description><![CDATA[Sonia Sotomayor won confirmation Thursday as the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice in a history-making Senate vote that capped a summer-long debate heavy with ethnic politics.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[multifariousone]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[multifariousone]]></source><link>http://multifariousone.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/06/3126830-sotomayor-confirmed-to-supreme-court</link><guid>http://multifariousone.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/06/3126830-sotomayor-confirmed-to-supreme-court</guid><category>senate</category><category>supreme-court</category><category>hispanic</category><category>us-news</category><category>democrat</category><category>supreme-court-justice</category><category>president-barack-obama</category><category>111th-supreme-court-justice</category><category>justice-sonia-sotomayor</category><category>hispanic-supreme-court-justice</category><pubDate>Thu, 6 Aug 2009 20:40:31 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>