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Mayor Michael Bloomberg will testify on Sonia Sotomayor's behalf at her Senate confirmation hearing.

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has received the stamp of approval from the American Bar Assn.

WASHINGTON a ' President Obama will abandon a controversial immigration crackdown, sought by his predecessor, to pressure U.S. companies to fire 9 million workers with suspect Social Security numbers, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Wednesday.

Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., Tuesday offered an amendment to the fiscal 2010 Homeland Security appropriations bill that would require contractors to verify the legal status of their workers in order to do business with the federal government.

More than two decades ago, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee as a nominee for a district court judgeship in Alabama and was rejected by the panel over charges of racial insensitivity.

The Senate voted Wednesday to require actual fencing along 700 miles of the border with Mexico rather than vehicle barriers and high-tech equipment.

Conservatives have chosen a strange leader to spearhead their charge against Judge Sotomayor - Sen.

The Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund officially opposed Bork, whose nomination by President Ronald Reagan was rejected by the Senate in 1987, "because of the threat he poses to the civil rights of the Latino community," its president reported in one of several documents from the group that the Senate Judiciary Committee released ...

Sun, Jul 5, 2009 A week before her Senate hearings, Republicans are floundering in their efforts to trip up Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, unable to find an effective message about why she's not fit to serve.

Published: Saturday, July 4, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, July 4, 2009 at 5:17 p.m. An announced Democratic candidate for governor, Sam Franklin Thomas of Huntsville, wouldn't say if he's constitutionally qualified to serve as governor.

The Obama administration has been accused of secretly changing United States policy over negotiating with terrorist groups to cut a deal for the release of British hostages in Iraq.

McConnell said the Senate Judiciary Committee needs to examine the materials from the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, now known as LatinoJustice PRLDEF.

Last week, during Senate hearings on the proposed Matthew Sheppard Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions offered the following hypothetical scenario to Attorney General Eric Holder: "[A] minister gives a sermon, quotes the Bible about homosexuality, is thereafter attacked by a gay activist because of what the minister ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that criminal defendants are entitled to cross-examine lab workers who conduct the forensic tests that are used in their trials.

A Puerto Rican civil rights organization advised by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor campaigned against seating conservative Robert Bork on the high court in the late 1980s, according to new documents that shed light on the group that's become a key focus of Republicans questioning Sotomayor's fitness to be a justice.

Justice Kennedy's majority opinion in Ricci creates new law; from now on, employers may reconsider an already administered promotion test only if there is a "strong basis in evidence" showing that the test engaged in illegal discrimination.

The Supreme Court declared Monday that white firefighters in Connecticut were unfairly denied promotion because of their race, ruling against minorities in a major reverse discrimination case that could affect bosses and workers nationwide.

With today's Supreme Court ruling there are even more questions about Sonia Sotomayor's judgment on race.

Republican Senators are objecting to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's interpretation of the Second Amendment.

Some Christian groups are urging Congress to vote against a new hate crimes bill that would allow the government to prosecute cases of violence based on sexual orientation, gender or disability.