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Obama-nominated SCOTUS justice has seen net worth spike during tenure on high court.. Sonia Sotomayor's net worth has increased significantly since joining the nation's highest court, according to financial disclosure forms amid new revelations about the Supreme Court justice's efforts to promote her books. Sotomayor's net worth has skyrocketed, putting her among the ranks of the nation's millionaires. In 2021, her investments totaled somewhere between $1.5 million and $6.4 million, .... One reason for the sharp increase in Sotomayor's investments and overall wealth is the money she's made from writing books. .. her staff has often "prodded" public institutions that...

by Samantha Foster | 24NewsThe U.S. Supreme Court is apparently planning to vote to END Roe v Wade in a DRAFT OPINION by Justice Samuel Alito — leaked to Politico this evening.The draft opinion was leaked to the press – something that is almost unprecedented.Developing………The Daily Mail reported:The Supreme Court is planning to vote to strike down the decision of Roe v. Wade, long considered a vanguard of guaranteeing a right to an abortion in the United States.The opinion draft – originally obtained by Politico – was written by Justice Samuel Alito, one of the six justices appointed by Republican...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Citing the need for extra precaution and safety, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor announced her decision to hear the high court’s oral arguments from a remote location in order to protect herself from exposure to the U.S. Constitution. “I read online that exposure to the Constitution causes over 100,000 Americans to become white supremacists every day,” said Justice Sotomayor while wearing a face shield and three masks over a Zoom call. “These scientific facts have informed my decision to stay as far away as I can from the dangerous document.” Critics have called out the Supreme Court Justice for...

Sonia Sotomayor’s ludicrous claim before her Supreme Court peers during oral arguments that one hundred thousand children were “in serious condition” from COVID-19 when three thousand would have been more accurate, is far more than just an embarrassment to the justice. How could such an ill-informed person be a justice of our highest court? What else doesn’t she know—or, perhaps more exactly, doesn’t want to know? Her full quotation makes it sound still worse. “We have hospitals that are almost at full capacity with people severely ill on ventilators. We have over 100,000 children, which we’ve never had before, in...

Jennifer Gratz is a model of diversity. The daughter of a policeman and a secretary in Southfield, Mich., she was the first person in her family to apply to college, sporting a résumé that included a 3.8 grade point average, 25 ACT score, and membership in the National Honor Society and student council. She was class vice president. Yet she was denied admission to the University of Michigan because racial preferences stacked the deck against her and her white, Asian, Indian, and Jewish peers by granting 20 points to black or Latino students, on an 80-point scale; a perfect standardized...

You might not know what Sonia Sotomayor stands for after the Senate hearings conducted earlier this week, in which she avoided critical political questions. Some of these questions included her position on abortion and gun rights, which should leave you asking questions about her and what she will really do when she goes into the supreme court. She has ‘said’ that she doesn’t rule on issues according to law and not to her liberal views. However, you don’t know how she will rule on these cases because she will not give a straight answer. You want one? She will vote...

You’ve read about Sonia Sotomayor’s rulings and about her, what do you think? Is she Supreme Court material? Is she a racist as Rush and Newt tell you? If she’s qualified, should she be confirmed or opposed because of how you think she might vote on specific issues? Should she be opposed just because Obama nominated her? Should she be confirmed just because she is female, Hispanic and was nominated by the President? Have at it!

Sotomayor stays mum during Senate visitsBy LAURIE KELLMAN, The Associated Press 3:55 p.m. June 2, 2009 WASHINGTON — Judge Sonia Sotomayor is not shy. By all accounts, her hearing is fine. But Sotomayor stayed nearly silent in public during her debut Tuesday on Capitol Hill under a guiding principle more associated with the practice of medicine than law or politics: Above all, do no harm. "She's following the rules," said Tom Korologos, a longtime figure in Washington and veteran chaperone of Republican nominees to the high court, including William Rehnquist, later chief justice, and Robert Bork, who wasn't confirmed. "The...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama expressed confidence Saturday that efforts to scuttle Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court will fail despite intensified scrutiny of her judicial career. He said senators should work quickly to elevate the federal appeals judge. "I am certain that she is the right choice," the president said in his weekly radio and Internet address in which he scolded critics who he said were trying to distort her record and past statements. Those include her 2001 comment that a female Hispanic judge would often reach a better decision than a white male judge. With the Senate...

The MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) theory applies for both-Touch me at the centre and lose your corner. With considerable success on the western coast the back-stabbing technique was perfected for the Bihar. While the Regina in the window let her hair down enticing the fief, her henchmen went about ransacking his fiefdom. By the time Laloo realized half of his accumulated treasure over the last fifteen years had been burgled. He can now sit and lick his wounds, rue his vanity but he is not getting a chance in near future to avenge his annihilation. With yet another Congress supported...

Working for the Release of ES Employees Held in Colombia Though one of the most beautiful places on earth, modern-day Colombia is also one of the most dangerous. On February 13th, four California Microwave Systems employees flying a mission for the U.S. Southern Command crashed in the Colombian jungle, not far from a stronghold of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC), a local armed insurgent group. The pilot, Tom Janis and Colombian Army sergeant, Luis Alcides Cruz, were murdered by the FARC, and Keith Stansell, Marc Gonsalves and Thomas Howes were taken prisoner.The three remain in captivity, held by...

Guarded by hundreds of armed rebels deep in a malaria-infested jungle, three American captives pass the time playing with a homemade deck of cards and dreaming of their families. The threat of death always hangs nearby. The three U.S. military contractors have been cut off from the outside world since their capture by rebels seven months ago. That isolation was broken when a Colombian journalist traveled for days over rough roads and jungle rivers with a rebel escort to interview them July 25 in remote southern Colombia. "They were nervous, and there were traces of fear on their faces," freelance...

Sonia makes her choice: It's Manmohan NEW DELHI: Sonia Gandhi has made her choice. She has named Manmohan Singh to be the next Prime Minister. It is believed the draft anointing Manmohan Singh as new Congress Parliamentary Party leader has already been sent to MPs. The MPs, according to reports, will sign the draft and there will be no separate CPP meet. The MPs will meet state-wise in the presence of AICC leaders in charge of states, party sources said.

In a stunning political shift, Indian voters have decisively rejected the governing Hindu nationalist party and the coalition partners that have kept Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in office since 1998. Liberalizing economic policies carried out under Mr. Vajpayee's Bharatiya Janata Party governments have given India statistically impressive economic growth. Yet in a country where poor people vote in large numbers, most of them remain unimpressed. Along with the coalition's drubbing came the equally unexpected revival of the long-fading Congress Party under its Italian-born leader, Sonia Gandhi. Mrs. Gandhi, the widow and daughter-in-law of assassinated prime ministers, capitalized on her...

<p>I read with disgust about "local leaders and state workers" putting pressure on Assemblyman Mike Briggs to vote yes on Gov. Gray Davis' bloated budget.</p> <p>This year's budget is nothing short of a gouge-the-taxpayer nightmare, which, if passed in its current form, would surely destroy what's left of the state's economy. As the economy crumbles, so do jobs for working families.</p>