Barack Obama’s first supreme court nominee moves a step forward toward becoming first Hispanic on the bench Sonia Sotomayor has advanced a step further toward taking a seat as America’s first Hispanic supreme court justice today after a Senate panel confirmed her nomination. Sotomayor, a New York federal judge, won the vote in the Senate judiciary committee which now forwards her nomination to the full Senate

In her testimony yesterday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor made a serious contradiction of her own testimony of her involvement with the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund , which was at the very least misleading. In addition, she appears to have contradicted the known facts of her involvement with the PRLDEF, based on the minutes of the Fund’s litigation committee that have been made available to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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