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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Sonia Sotomayor | The Love Network</title><link>http://sonia-sotomayor.love.com</link><language>en-us</language><docs>http://sonia-sotomayor.love.com/rss.xml</docs><description></description><copyright>AOL LLC. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only.</copyright><generator>Blogsmith | Relegence | AOL LLC.</generator><item><title>CAPITAL CULTURE: Sotomayor adds celebrity to court</title><link>http://t.love.com/273022427</link><description><![CDATA[Apparently, no one told Sonia Sotomayor that Supreme Court justices are supposed to be circumspect, emerging from their marble palace mainly to dispense legal wisdom to law schools, judges' conferences and lawyers' meetings. 


Since becoming the first Hispanic justice, Sotomayor has mamboed with movie stars, exchanged smooches with musicians at the White House and thrown out the first pitch for her beloved New York Yankees. 
A famous jazz composer even wrote a song about her: "Wise Latina Woman." 

]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:47:38</pubDate></item><item><title>Poll: Bono wanted as substitute teacher</title><link>http://t.love.com/273007998</link><description><![CDATA[Thousands of voters indicated in an online survey Irish rocker Bono is their dream substitute teacher, the National Education Association said Friday. 


Those NEA members from across the country and the general public who participated in the U.S. teachers union's third annual Substitute Educator's Day poll were asked to choose a fantasy substitute teacher from among Bono, journalist Katie Couric, former South Africa President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela, Supreme Court Justice Sonia ...]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:11:46</pubDate></item><item><title>Senate confirms Obama's earliest judicial nominee after delay</title><link>http://t.love.com/272977003</link><description><![CDATA[[JURIST] The US Senate [official website] on Thursday voted 59-39 [roll call vote] to confirm Judge David Hamilton to the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit [official website], overcoming Republican opposition to secure President Barack Obama's first and longest-delayed judicial nominee. 
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) [official website] said a Republican filibuster delayed [press release] the vote for five-and-a-half months, since it was first put on the Senate's ...]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:53:14</pubDate></item><item><title>Have Democrats Been Marginalized Within Their Own Party?</title><link>http://t.love.com/272810775</link><description><![CDATA[We have heard a lot over the past year or so about how President John F. Kennedy wouldn't be able to garner his political party's nomination for the presidency in today's Democrat Party. 
An examination of his political platform and the principles he embraced would today place him on the right side of the aisle. 
So, why is it that in just under fifty years the political ideology of the most revered Democrat to hold office in modern times is shunned by the party he served? ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 9:01:26</pubDate></item><item><title>Liberty, Justice and Equality for all</title><link>http://t.love.com/272706257</link><description><![CDATA[I had the pleasure of meeting the chief justice of the Indiana Supreme Court Randall Shepard, during his visit to ISU's campus this past Wednesday. 


The Chief Justice came to campus to speak about the Indiana Conference for Legal Education Opportunities, a program designed to help disadvantaged and/or minority students to pay for their legal education in one of the four Indiana law schools. 


Justice Shepard's diversity initiative reminded me of the controversy surrounding the historical nomination of the first Hispanic woman to the Supreme Court of the United States: Sonia Sotomayor. 

]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 2:18:49</pubDate></item><item><title>What the Law Commands</title><link>http://t.love.com/272619355</link><description><![CDATA[The ostensible topic of a recent argument before the Supreme Court was lawyering, but the real subject turned out to be judging. 
An exchange between Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and one of the lawyers was illuminating. 


The lawyer, Paul D. Clement, was representing the legal team that had won improvements in Georgia's foster care system on behalf of thousands of foster children. ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:13:17</pubDate></item><item><title>No rebuke for 'admonish,' 2009 Word of the Year</title><link>http://t.love.com/272580485</link><description><![CDATA[When the U.S. House admonished Rep. Joe Wilson for shouting "You lie!" at President Barack Obama during a health care speech to Congress, it not only lit up talk show lines, but also sent many people scurrying to the Internet in search of a definition. 


Admonish, a verb dating to the 14th century meaning "to express warning or disapproval in a gentle, earnest, or solicitous manner," generated enough curiosity to crown it Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2009. 


It beat out several other ...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:59:12</pubDate></item><item><title>Why The Democrats Are Sluggish On Judicial Nominations</title><link>http://t.love.com/272539308</link><description><![CDATA[Democratic senators are slow-waking President Obama's judicial nominations, something that our constitutional law professor chief executive is said to be frustrated about. 
The Washington Independent's chronicler of the conservative movement, David Weigel, has a theory : the White House itself is to blame because it's failed the zone with nominees and hasn't gone to the mat for all of them. 
Republicans, he notes, were quite aggressive in squeezing their nominees through a tighter Senate vise. 

]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:53:34</pubDate></item><item><title>Faith notes</title><link>http://t.love.com/272528293</link><description><![CDATA[These are current special events for area churches and religious organizations. 
For a list of houses of worship, go to http://www.carynews.com/community/story/12307.html. Send news from your religious group to carynews@nando.com or FAX to 460-6034. 


Apparently, no one told Sonia Sotomayor that Supreme Court justices are supposed to be circumspect, emerging from their marble palace mainly to dispense legal wisdom to law schools, judges' conferences and lawyers' meetings. 

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