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Published 7/14/2009 at Reuters: Politics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, promised on Monday to apply the law impartially as Republicans used the first day of her confirmation hearings to repeatedly question her objectivity.
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