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Environmentalists Signal Support for Sotomayor:
Millions of members represented by 60 groups favoring High Court nominee (07/09/09)

Previous Features

Editorials and Opinion

Former Sen. Warren Rudman: Republicans losing their way on campaign finance reform (Washington Post, 02/05/10)

Mazzucco: If Judge Edward M. Chen Isn’t Qualified, Who Is? (Roll Call, 02/05/10)

Editorial: What Price Politics? (New York Times, 02/05/10)

Fill the Bench NowNow is the time for Obama to move on judicial nominations. (Slate.com, 02/05/10)

Editorial: On to the full Senate (San Francisco Chronicle, 02/05/10)

More Editorials and Opinion

Nominees

Edward Chen: N.D. Ca.

Nominated 08/07/09

David Hamilton
Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
Confirmed 11/19/09

Louis Butler, Jr. (W.D. Wis.)

Nominated 11/04/09

More Nominees

Overview of Nominees (PDF)

Issues

Creating New Judgeships
Pending legislation to help reduce backlogs in the nation’s district and circuit courts by authorizing additional permanent and temporary judgeships.

Federal preemption/ corporate immunity from damage claims

Access to Courts
Citizen access to the courts ensures that essential legal safeguards for people and the environment are upheld and enforced.

More Issues

Environmentalists Signal Support for Sotomayor:Millions of members represented by 60 groups favoring High Court nominee (07/09/09)

Environmentalists Signal Support for Sotomayor:
Millions of members represented by 60 groups favoring High Court nominee (07/09/09)