Sonia Sotomayor

by Mark Silva Now the sale begins. President Barack Obama, who nominated federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court today, is calling on that email community that he amassed in his campaign for the White House to support his......

by Mark Silva Add Alberto Gonzales, attorney general under President George W. Bush and the first Hispanic attorney general of the United States, to the lineup praising the cultural significance of Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination for the Supreme Court....

by Mark Silva and updated. The White House is seeking swift Senate confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, as Republican congressional leaders suggest they may be in no rush. While critics challenge...

by Mark Silva Sen. Patrick Leahy, now chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, once warned that Latino candidates for the federal courts were being held up by a Republican-run Senate. In particular: Judge Sonia Sotomayor, a federal judge first...

by Mark Silva and updated President Barack Obama, elected to the White House with two-thirds of the votes cast by Hispanic Americans, has made some history of his own -- first African-American elected president -- and now has nominated the......

by Mark Silva Rush Limbaugh doesn't only want President Barack Obama to fail. He also wants the president's first nominee to the Supreme Court to fail. "Do I want her to fail? Yeah.' '' Limbaugh said of federal Judge Sonia......

by Mark Silva President Barack Obama already knew one of the finalists for the Supreme Court whom he was considering: federal Judge Diane Wood of Chicago, a fellow teacher of constitutional law at the University of Chicago. But the president......

by James Oliphant Which front-runner for the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court is favored by conservative activists? That's an easy question: None of them. The Judicial Confirmation Network, which pushes for conservative nominees for the high court, has.....

by Mark Silva and updated at 10:50 am EDT President Barack Obama today nominated federal judge Sonia Sotomayor of New York for the Supreme Court, positioning the longtime federal jurist to become the first Hispanic member of the nation's highest......

by Mark Silva and updated The president's decks are cleared for his Supreme Court nomination today, following a Memorial Day weekend that included a retreat with his family at Camp David and four-and-a-half hours of golf at Fort Belvoir on......

by Mark Silva and updated. President Barack Obama has met with Chicago-based appellate judge Diane Wood, believed to be one of the candidates whom the president is considering for an appointment to the Supreme Court, our friends at Bloomberg News......

Sonia Sotomayor is Barack Obama's choice for the open Supreme Court spot. Check it out here. Ms. Sotomayor and I go way back. I was in her courtroom on March 31, 1995, when she kick-started the baseball season with......