By Michael Doyle
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court did all it could Monday to lock up forever some incendiary photos that show U.S. soldiers abusing foreign prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Yielding to Congress and the White House, justices took…

New York Times

Although Sonia Sotomayor is now a full member of the court, entitled to move into her new chambers and prepare for her first case _ a campaign-finance dispute left over from the court’s last term _ she still…

BY MARK SHERMAN
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sonia Sotomayor has gained admission to the Marble Palace. Now she has to figure out how the Supreme Court works.

When do you speak up? How do you find your way around a building…

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 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…