Washington: Supreme Court

Associated Press: Washington: Supreme Court

5 hours, 19 minutes ago

(AP) Colin Powell, one of the nation's most prominent African-Americans, is going after people who attacked Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor because of her stand in favor of affirmative action.Powell, who's from the same Bronx neighborhood in New York as Sotomayor, said she should face "a spirited set of hearings" in ...

Analysis: GOP struggles for anti-Sotomayor message

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(AP) A week before her Senate hearings, Republicans are floundering in their efforts to trip up Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, unable to find an effective message about why she's not fit to serve.Blame the tricky politics of opposing the woman who would be the first Hispanic justice, especially for a ...

Group Sotomayor advised fought job tests

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(AP) A civil rights group on whose board Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor served filed racial bias lawsuits over employment examinations that resemble a Connecticut case in which she ruled against white firefighters, documents released by the Senate show.The Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund represented Hispanic sanitation workers in ...

GOP, White House at odds on Sotomayor documents

2 days, 11 hours ago

(AP) A top Republican pressed for more information Thursday about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's ties to a Puerto Rican civil rights group he said took extreme positions on race, as the White House argued that the material was irrelevant to the judge's nomination.White House Counsel Greg Craig told Sen. Jeff ...

Leahy: GOP planned objection to a high court pick

2 days, 20 hours ago

(AP) The chairman of the Senate's upcoming Supreme Court hearings says Republicans told him they would have objected no matter whom President Barack Obama nominated to the high court.Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy told The Associated Press on Thursday that, quote, "They were going to object no matter who it was. ...

Legal group's records tell little about Sotomayor

3 days, 11 hours ago

(AP) A Puerto Rican civil rights organization advised by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor campaigned against seating conservative Robert Bork on the high court in the late 1980s, according to new documents that shed light on the group that's become a key focus of Republicans questioning Sotomayor's fitness to be a ...

Group advised by Sotomayor campaigned against Bork

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Legal group's records tell little about Sotomayor

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Supreme Court decisions made in the 2008-09 term

4 days, 11 hours ago

(AP) Some of the significant cases the Supreme Court decided in its 2008-09 term:REVERSE DISCRIMINATIONThe Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race. It was a decision that could alter employment practices nationwide and make it harder to prove discrimination ...

Court rulings loom on campaign funds, civil rights

4 days, 11 hours ago

(AP) The Supreme Court will have a new look _ and perhaps a new member _ but the same right-of-center tilt when the justices return in late summer to deal with unfinished business about money in campaigns.Some justices will change seats with the retirement of Justice David Souter, with the more ...