BY DAVID GONZALEZ
New York Times

In the summer of 1959, Edwin Torres landed a $60-a-week job and wound up on the front page of El Diario. He had just been hired as the first Puerto Rican assistant district attorney in New…

BY GREG BLUESTEIN
Associated Press Writer

ATLANTA (AP) — Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Friday it’s difficult to tell what kind of justice U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor would become, calling her testimony this week “dramatically more moderate” than…

BY MARK SHERMAN
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) — Frank Ricci, the white firefighter who recently won his reverse discrimination case at the Supreme Court, said Thursday that an unfavorable ruling by Sonia Sotomayor and other judges “divides people who don’t wish…

By The Associated Press

Judge Sonia Sotomayor is likely headed to the Supreme Court, but not unscathed. A Republican inquisitor at her confirmation hearings, Sen. Jeff Sessions, took advantage of the national spotlight but got singed by it, too. There…

BY CALVIN WOODWARD
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — What does a Latina judge from the Bronx have in common with a white male lawyer from Alabama?

Latin and legalese.

The ancient language of the law flows easily among practitioners, among them Supreme Court nominee…

BY HILLARY SORIN
Houston Chronicle

WASHINGTON — Despite the interruptions of a handful of abortion-rights foes, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearings on the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court have almost completely ignored the hot-button social issue.

Only Democratic Sens.…

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A glossary of key terms used by senators and Judge Sonia Sotomayor at her confirmation hearings to be a justice on the U.S Supreme Court:

Judicial precedent. Very simply, it’s a court ruling that establishes a principle that another…

BY JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — It’s a delicate chore. Republicans, seeing their best chance to make big points with the American public since Barack Obama won the White House, are trying to strike just the right balance in…

BY LARRY MARGASAK
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The plaintiff in the landmark abortion-rights case Roe v. Wade, who became an abortion protester in recent years, was among four demonstrators arrested Monday for disrupting Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination hearing.

Norma McCorvey, 61, of…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I also want to thank Sens. Schumer and Gillibrand for their kind introductions.

In recent weeks, I have had the privilege and pleasure of meeting 89 senators, including all the members of this committee. Each of you…