Sotomayor won't sell NY apartment in this economy

Not even Supreme Court justices are immune from the economy. Justice Sonia Sotomayor plans to keep her apartment in New York for the time being, even as she gets a place in Washington.

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Souter bids goodbye to Supreme Court colleagues

It took Justice David Souter's final day at the Supreme Court to bring him into the limelight after nearly two decades in Washington.

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Who is challenging Ahmadinejad's power?

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In high court test, a liberal letdown seems unlikely

Given the Democrats’ majority in the Senate, it seems likely President Barack Obama's Supreme court nominee will be serving on the court when it begins its 2009-2010 term in October.

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Diversity on the bench

Presidents and the total number of judges they named, broken down by women and minorities, dating from the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was the first to nominate a woman to be a federal judge.

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Practical female politico sought for court

The drum beat from senators has been growing this week: President Barack Obama, they say, ought to nominate to the Supreme Court seat being vacated by Justice David Souter a person with practical political experience.

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US Supreme Court forces EPA emissions rethink

The US Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the Environmental Protection Agency's refusal to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars is "not in accordance with law".

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Since I was released from Tehran's notorious Evin Prison last month, the questions have come again and again: Should the Obama administration have a dialogue with Iran? Can we still talk to these people? What should the West do in nuclear negotiations?

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Iran's police chief says a doctor who died at a detention centre shut in July after the deaths of several opposition supporters committed suicide.

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A Florida high-schooler refused to stand and repeat The Pledge of Alligiance, sparking a legal fight. An appeals court panel did not rule his way, and now the Supreme Court will not get involved either.

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A Tennessee school's ban on T-shirts showing the Confederate flag will stand, after Supreme Court dismisses student's appeal.

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Cluing In The Iranians by Harvard Hollenberg

CLUING IN THE IRANIANS By Harvard Hollenberg People Power

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Watch the video in the article the title question pertains to. A bunch of lawyers surround a police officer and assault him outside a judicial court where he just gave testimony.

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After joking about their moms, Sen.

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St. Petersburg Times TV/media critc Eric Deggans blogged this morning about his outrage over the debate during the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings and its gathering buzz in the Twitter world.

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Current situation in Iran and the implications.

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Did the Supreme Court Get it Right?

As we all know, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of the plaintiff in the case of Ricci v. DeStefano. The impact on the existing affirmative action apparatus in America will certainly be appreciable and felt by the vast majority of us in the coming years.

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Divisive Politics Cripples American Voters!

United We Stand! Divided we Fall! Can anyone tell me the author of this famous quote? (Hint, it is not who you think!) As we face a very tumultuous time in this great nation we cannot seem to agree on anything as our main goal let alone how to deal with the specifics of the pro …

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Supreme Court real-time blog gives you immediate info on the decisions of the highest US court. Pretty cool.

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Surveillance cameras in offices? I don't know what's worse--that management secretly placed cameras in the offices to discover who was looking at porn on their computers, or the fact that they didn't tell the women because they were hoping to catch them "gossiping." If gossipi …

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Limbaugh upset with Gingrich for apologizing for calling Judge Sonia Sotomayor a "racist."

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Bill Salier, a former candidate for Senate and founder of the conservative group Everyday America, said he agrees with the premise that the state should amend its constitution.

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The Honorable Sotomayor suffers from Type I diabetes, previously known as insulin dependent diabetes. Diabetes in general is a chronic illness that is caused by the disregulation of insulin.

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Three of the five majority opinions written by Judge Sotomayor for the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals and reviewed by the Supreme Court were reversed,

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President Obama announced on Tuesday that he will nominate the federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, choosing a daughter of Puerto Rican parents raised in a Bronx public housing project to become the nation's first Hispanic justice.

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To bad the 18,000 marriages weren't overtured

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Officials tell The Associated Press that President Barack Obama intends to nominate federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor (SUHN'-ya soh-toh-my-YOR') as the first Hispanic to serve on the Supreme Court.

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Yuck.

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