RSSSotomayor defends remarks, deflects hot-button issues
From: The Washington Times | July 14, 2009
UPDATED: Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday called her widely cited remark that a “wise Latina woman” had better judgment than a “white male” a failed “rhetorical flourish,” supported the privacy rights of abortion and said she was not opposed to gun ownership on the first full day of questioning at her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings. In her first extended public exchanges with lawmakers, Judge Sotomayor quickly dispatched a series of hot-button issues under the friendly questioning of committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont Democrat, addressing at the very outset charges that her comparison of Latina women and …
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