Supreme Court nominee SoniaSotomayors remarks about race and gender in a 2001 speech aretroubling, said Senate Republicans who will vote on herconfirmation.
It goes against the great heritage of American law thatcalls for judges to be a neutral umpire, said Sessions, thetop Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, on the NBCMeet the Press program.
A leading Democratic senator says that President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee is “filibuster-proof” when his colleagues look at her record.
Schumer downplayed Sotomayor’s comments about her ethnic background and the bench. He says Sotomayor’s comments about her personal experiences reflect a respect for the law while acknowledging her own background as the daughter of Puerto [...]
Spain’s bullet train system is a model to follow as America plans how to spend the money the government is injecting to stimulate the economy, the U.S. transportation secretary said Saturday.
President Barack Obama has cited Spain, France and Japan as countries with systems worth emulating.
Ray LaHood said the $8 billion allocated for high-speed railways in [...]
Ministers from G8 industrialized nations agreed on Saturday to work toward a legal framework for the trial of Somali pirates, seen as a major obstacle to policing the dangerous shipping lanes off the Horn of Africa.
They also recognized the need for agreements between countries that arrest pirates and those able to prosecute them — often [...]
A GOP senator on the committee that will consider Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination says her early life of hardship is praiseworthy. But it doesn’t make her better than he or other white men.
But Graham says her comments about how her views as a Latina woman affect her judicial cases are troubling and inappropriate, and [...]
The top Democrat overseeing President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee says he will set his own schedule for Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings.
The White House says Obama wants Sotomayor to be confirmed before the August recess. Officials want Sotomayor to be in place when the court’s next term begins in October.
Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison says the debate over Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination should be respectful and based on her record not on labels applied to the federal judge.
Hutchison says she’s waiting to review Sotomayor’s record and will give Sotomayor a “fair shot” when considering her for the high court.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, aiming to persuade China that its U.S. investments were safe, pledged that the Obama administration was firmly committed to ratcheting down huge deficits as quickly as it can once economic recovery is assured.
During the past week, uneasiness in financial markets over soaring U.
A top State Department official says Cuba has agreed to resume negotiations with the U.S. over immigration and mail service between the two countries.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the time and place for the resumed talks has not been determined.
The official says Cuba notified the U.
The top Republican involved in the confirmation hearings for President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee says he would prefer his colleagues refrain from calling Sonia Sotomayor a racist.
Some conservatives, such as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, have said Sotomayor should withdraw her nomination.
