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Thursday, January 17, 2013

60 Minutes (1/13/2013)

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Monday, August 10, 2009

Judge Sonia Sotomayor Sworn In (8/8/2009)

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Thursday, August 6, 2009

Judge Sonia Sotomayor Senate Confirmation

This afternoon, the U.S. Senate confirmed Judge Sonia Sotomayor. She will be the 111th Supreme Court Justice. She is the third female Justice in the history of the Court, and the first Hispanic Justice.

Read President Barack Obama's Statement here.

See exactly who voted yea and nay here.

Judge Sonia Sotomayor: Analysis of Selected Opinions (Congressional Research Service)

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Monday, July 13, 2009

Face the Nation with Sen. Patrick Leahy and Sen. Jeff Sessions (7/12/2009)

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Monday, June 15, 2009

Face the Nation with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (6/14/2009)

Monday, June 8, 2009

Face the Nation with Sr. White House Advisor David Axelrod and Fmr. Speark of the House Newt Gingrich (6/7/2009)

Sunday, June 7, 2009

U.S. Supreme Court: Associate Justice David Hackett Souter

Associate Justice David Hackett Souter is from Melrose, Massachusetts. He received his A.B. from Harvard College. He was also a Rhodes Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford. He would later receive an A.B. in Jurisprudene and an M.A. from Oxford. He then earned an LL.B. from Harvard Law School. President George H.W. Bush nominated him as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he took his seat on October 9, 1990, replacing Associate Justice William J. Brennan. He will be retiring this year; Judge Sonia Sotomayor was nominated to replace him, but she still awaits confirmation from Congress.

For more information, check out the biographies of current Justices here.

Also, check out his biography on The Oyez Project here.

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Monday, June 1, 2009

U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is responsible for vetting and confirming the new Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. They are currently preparing to consider the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

For more information about the Committee, visit judiciary.senate.gov.

For more information on Judge Sonia Sotomayor and the confirmation process, click here.

Members of the Committee are as follows (each name is a link that will bring you to that senator's personal site):

Patrick J. Leahy, Chairman (D-Vermont)

Jeff Sessions, Ranking Member (R-Alabama)

Herb Kohl (D-Wisconsin)

Dianne Feinstein (D-California)

Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah)

Russell D. Feingold (D-Wisconsin)

Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa)

Charles E. Schumer (D-New York)

Jon Kyl (R-Arizona)

Richard J. Durbin (D-Illinois)

Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina)

Benjamin L. Cardin (D-Maryland)

John Cornyn (R-Texas)

Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island)

Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma)

Ron Wyden (D-Oregon)

Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota)

Edward E. Kaufman (D-Delaware)

Arlen Specter (D-Pennsylvania)

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Meet the Press with Sen. Patrick Leahy and Sen. Jeff Sessions (5/31/2009)

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Face the Nation with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Sen. Jon Kyl, David Brooks, and Bob Woodward (5/31/2009)

President Obama's Weekly Address (5/30/2009)

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Friday, May 29, 2009

Information on Judge Sonia Sotomayor

The Law Library of Congress has put together a wonderful page on U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Sotomayor. The site offers a variety of information on her career and includes a list of web resources about the judge, her nomination, and the process of appointing a new U.S. Supreme Court Justice.

For specific LexisNexis Academic searches, check out the bookmarks listed here: http://delicious.com/LNAcademic/Sotomayor. This will work if you are on a campus that subscribes to this database. For UNO students, staff, and faculty who are not on campus, use the links listed here: http://delicious.com/feddocs/Sotomayor. This will automatically direct you to our proxy server.

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Thursday, May 28, 2009

President Obama nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court

President Obama's announcement on Tuesday, May 26, 2009:

President Obama explains his choice:

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