LatinaLista — Ever since the Republicans chose to ridicule Sotomayor for her usage of the words “wise Latina” in a speech she gave, it has become the battle cry and impetus for countless “wise Latina” groups to be formed,…
LatinaLista — Ever since last week’s Senate vote for Sotomayor, where only 9 Republican Senators — 4 of which will be retiring at the end of 2010 –, articles, blog posts and cable news shows have been talking about…
By Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) In reviewing the biography of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, it quickly becomes clear that she had to overcome many challenges to arrive where she is at today. The last challenge of her professional…
LatinaLista — It seems that since Judge Sonia Sotomayor was nominated for the Supreme Court, there’s been a full-blown offensive launched by the Grand Old Party (GOP). Even those among the GOP who always counted themselves as friends of…
LatinaLista — Only one GOP Senator on the Senate Judiciary Committee broke party ranks when siding with his Democratic peers today in voting to send a positive recommendation to the full Senate that Judge Sonia Sotomayor should be confirmed…
LatinaLista — There’s no two ways about it — the treatment by Republican senators of Judge Sonia Sotomayor during this week’s confirmation hearings had a lot of Latinos/as seeing red. It wasn’t the questioning that dealt with her views…
LatinaLista — As the first Latina Supreme Court nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor has gotten a lot of grief partly over the very thing that makes her nomination so historically significant — the fact that she is Latina. Over the…
LatinaLista — It was to be expected that the senators grilling Judge Sonia Sotomayor during her Supreme Court confirmation hearings would bring up her “wise Latina” statement. Judge Sonia Sotomayor during her confirmation hearings. And it’s not surprising that…
LatinaLista — The announcement of Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court has elicited a flood of insensitive and offensive remarks. Some have been so over-the-top that retractions are being made. Newt Gingrich The most noteworthy is that of…
