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Specter Stands up for Sotomayor's Controversial Comments
"I appreciated the comment. When you consider that women were not given the right to vote until 1920; and when you consider - may the record show a smile from Senator Feinstein - when you consider that there is still a tremendous glass ceiling; when you consider Lilly Ledbetter. You could go on and on and on...And when she refers to being a Latino, that's a little ethnic pride. I think that's a pretty healthy thing, to have a little ethnic pride. So I not only found - I didn't find fault with 'a wise Latina woman.' I thought it was commendable."
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Obama Reacts to Friend's Arrest
"But I think it's fair to say, Number 1, any of us would be pretty angry; Number 2, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home; and Number 3, what I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there's a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. That's just a fact."
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Sen. Franken Finds Common Ground with Sotomayor
“It was a great show, and it amazes me that you wanted to become a prosecutor based on the show, because in Perry Mason, the prosecutor, Burger, lost every week…but I think that says something about your determination to defy the odds.”
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Sotomayor Explains her Inspiration for Becoming a Prosecutor
“I just was always struck that there was only one case where his client was actually guilty…I know that I should remember the name of it but I haven’t looked at the episodes…I was spending a lot of time on reviewing cases.”
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Sotomayor believes in the Constitution’s Timelessness
“Did it change my view of the Constitution? No sir, the Constitution is a timeless document. It was intended to guide us through decades, generation after generation, to everything that would develop in our country. It has protected us as a nation. It has inspired our survival.”
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