Respect Judge Sotomayor's Confirmation Hearing, Says Chairman Leahy

"Show respect to our third branch of government," said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT), urging people to respect U.S. Supreme Court's confirmation hearing of Judge Sonia Sotomayor regardless of whether people agree or disagree with the nomination. (0:37)
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Voting Rights Act Essential To U.S. Democracy, Says NAACP Attorney

Kristin Clarke, attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, says that Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act "remains a symbolic fixture" for greater political equality in the United States. (0:23)
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Plaintiffs Failed To Tear Out Voting Rights Act, Says NAACP Attorney

Kristin Clarke, attorney working at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, responds on today's decision of the Supreme Court on the Voting Rights Act and how the plaintiffs did not succeed in their attemp to "tear out the heart" of the Act. (0:15)
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Law Professor Says Judge Sotomayor Is Not Racially Biased

By Michael Combier-Talk Radio News Service

Bertha Hernandez, Professor of Law at the University of Florida College of Law, believes it is impossible to argue that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor favors racial quotas and did not have a racial agenda in her approach of the cases she dealt with. (0:26)
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Supreme Court Impacts Latino Community

Reynaldo Valencia, Professor and Associate Dean at St. Mary’s University School of Law, discusses the importance of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions concerning the Latino community and how the Hispanics for a Fair Judiciary has worked to inform Latinos of this issue. (0:59)
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Sotomayor Is A Pro

By Michael Combier-Talk Radio News Service

Martha L. Minow, a professor of law at Harvard Law University and Sotomayor's classmate at Yale, praises the Judge's skills in interacting with procedure and substance. For Minow, It is a "presentation of what the craft of lawyering is like." (0:39)
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Sotomayor Has A Literal Reading of Statutes

By Michael Combier-Talk Radio News Service

Martha L. Minow, a professor of law at Harvard Law University, recalls a case in which the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Judge Sotomayor close reading of statutes and "for being too fringy" about a particular word. (0:49)
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