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Sotomayor: More docs, but not enough

 

Published 7/2/2009 by Domenico Montanaro at First Read

"A Puerto Rican civil rights organization with ties to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday turned over a new round of documents to the Senate Judiciary Committee on her affiliation with the group," Roll Call reports. "But the move has done little to appease Judiciary Republicans who are complaining that the information provided represents just a preliminary culling of seven or eight of the 300-plus boxes of documents that they are demanding." ...( read more ) (link)

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