Senator Patrick
Leahy spent one-on-one time with Judge Sonia Sotomayor Tuesday on Capitol
Hill. He delivered a
strong defense of the Supreme Court nominee’s record and qualifications.
Supreme
Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has a deep Vermont connection. Sotomayor
traveled to Vermont in 2007 to attend a memorial at Vermont Law School in South
Royalton for her friend, the
late Judge James Oakes.
A Vermont friend of Judge Sonia Sotomayor describes how she got to know the Supreme Court nominee over the past decade as the judge heard cases from Vermont on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
Why the teen pregancy rate is inching upwards after many years of promising trends. Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s connection to Vermont. An audio postcard from the town of Sudbury.
Bennington’s Southwestern Vermont Medical Center grappled with a shortfall, Vermonters weighed in on President Obama’s Supreme Court nomination. These were some of the voices in the news this week:
New Hampshire
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen says she looks forward to a fair and swift confirmation for
Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court.