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Questions of racism also framed past hearings

By Stephen Menendian

8:02 AM on 07/15/2009

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor talks with Senate Judiciary Committee members Sen. John Cornyn, and Sen. Lindsey Graham (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) On May 26, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to be the nation's first Latina and only the third woman...