Supreme Court
Sotomayor's SCOTUS nomination kicks of the insanity. Plenty of sexy fun, with an interview with Professor Foxy and Mary Roach's orgasm review.
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The Supreme Court has reversed the Second Circuit ruling in Ricci vs. DeStefano, the case in which white firefighters have argued that they had been discriminated against when a promotional exam on which no African-American firefighters scored highly enough to be promoted was discarded.
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File this under "Phew": the Supreme Court ruled today that the strip search of an Arizona high school student was unconstitutional.
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Will the Senate Judiciary Committee ask Sotomayor about her position on Roe's role in protecting all the rights of pregnant women?
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NPR's Nina Totenberg gives what should be the final word on Sonia Sotomayor's supposed "temperament" troubles.
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Charges that racism and sexism might influence Judge Sotomayor's decision-making are a proxy for the far right's concerns about her positions on choice, discrimination, and immigration rights.
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Obama, Sotomayor agree on "unenumerated rights;" British health department fights releasing details of late-term abortions publicly.
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Reader diary posted by Julie Hollar, FAIR May 28, 2009 - 4:36pm
In her reader diary, Julie Hollar writes, The New York Times demonstrates how not to report on reproductive rights groups' reaction to the Sotomayor nomination: by going to anti-choice activists to frame the story.
Where does Sotomayor stand on abortion rights?; Oklahoma bans sex-selective abortions.
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Early reactions to Sonia Sotomayor try to gauge her position on abortion rights.
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