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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, standing, circulates among the crowd while speaking to students and other invitees during the Thomas J. Volpe lecture series at St.Francis College in Brooklyn Heights, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Sotomayor mentions Gorsuch obliquely in NYC college speech

By KAREN MATTHEWS - Associated Press

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor gestures after receiving a Doctor of Laws degree from University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel, Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, during a ceremony at the university in Ann Arbor, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Justice Sotomayor says universities need more diversity

By ED WHITE - Associated Press

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks before audience at Northrup Auditorium at the University of Minnesota on Monday, Oct. 17, 2016, in Minneapolis. Sotomayor said the high court continues to deeply feel the loss of Justice Antonin Scalia. (Renee Jones Schneider/Star Tribune via AP)

Sotomayor: US Supreme Court still feeling loss of Scalia

By STEVE KARNOWSKI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2004 file photo, a memorial with a photo of Dru Sjodin and handwritten notes from fellow sorority members hangs in the entry of the Gamma Phi Beta house on the campus of the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, N.D. Sjodin was abducted from the parking lot of a shopping mall on Nov. 22, 2003. On Thursday, April 7, 2016, a judge approved a new legal team for the death penalty appeal by Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., of Crookston, Minn., who was convicted in Sjodin's killing. (AP Photo/Kory Wallen, File)

US Supreme Court rejects Clark Elmore’s death penalty appeal

By GENE JOHNSON - Associated Press

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, Pool, File)

TAMMY BRUCE: Identity politics must not determine Supreme Court appointments

By Tammy Bruce

Illustration on Justice Sotomayor's unpaid intern servant staff by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

RONALD ROTUNDA: Sonya Sotomayor: ‘Do as I say, not as I do’

By Ronald D. Rotunda

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor addresses a joint meeting of the Forum Club and Palm Beach Bar Association Feb. 2, 2015. She downplayed hopes for in-court cameras of the upcoming gay marriage arguments. (AP Photo/The Palm Beach Post, Damon Higgins)

Sonia Sotomayor: Judicial activism is not real — it’s called ‘a ruling you don’t like’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor addresses a joint meeting of the Forum Club and Palm Beach Bar Association Feb. 2, 2015. She downplayed hopes for in-court cameras of the upcoming gay marriage arguments. (AP Photo/The Palm Beach Post, Damon Higgins)

No in-court cameras for gay marriage case

By Matt Sedensky and Sam Hananel - Associated Press

FILE - This June 29, 2011, photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Charles Warner. Warner was executed Jan. 15, 2015 for the 1997 killing of his roommate's 11-month-old daughter. The Supreme Court is stepping into the issue of lethal injection executions for the first time since 2008 in an appeal filed by death row inmates in Oklahoma. The justices agreed Friday, Jan. 23, 2015, to review whether the sedative midazolam can be used in executions because of concerns that it does not produce a deep, comalike unconsciousness and ensure that a prisoner does not experience intense and needless pain when other drugs are injected to kill him. The order came eight days after the court refused to halt the execution Warner that employed the same combination of drugs. The appeal was brought to the court by four Oklahoma inmates with execution dates ranging from January to March. The justices allowed Warner to be put to death and denied stays of execution for the other three. Friday's order does not formally call a halt to those scheduled procedures. But it is inconceivable that the court would allow them to proceed when the justices already have agreed to a full-blown review of the issue. (AP Photo/Oklahoma Department of Corrections, File)

Supreme Court agrees to review use of drug used in troubled Oklahoma execution

By Mark Sherman - Associated Press

FILE - This Sept. 19, 2013 file photo shows Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaking at the University of Delaware in Newark, Del. The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Michigan's ban on using race as a factor in college admissions. The justices said in a 6-2 ruling that Michigan voters had the right to change their state constitution to prohibit public colleges and universities from taking account of race in admissions decisions. The justices said that a lower federal court was wrong to set aside the change as discriminatory. In dissent, Sotomayor said the decision tramples on the rights of minorities, even though the amendment was adopted democratically. “But without checks, democratically approved legislation can oppress minority groups,” said Sotomayor, who read her dissent aloud in the courtroom Tuesday. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

EDITORIAL: Justice Sotomayor and the phony ‘war on women’

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Reporters got an unexpected photo-op on Saturday when Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor bumped into Hillary Clinton at a Virginia Costco. (Maggie Haberman)

Sonia Sotomayor promises Costco run-in with Hillary Clinton wasn’t staged

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Reporters got an unexpected photo-op on Saturday when Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor bumped into Hillary Clinton at a Virginia Costco. (Maggie Haberman)

Sonia Sotomayor bumps into Hillary Clinton at Virginia Costco

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Prosecutor sorry for ‘crack hoes’ Facebook post

By KYLE HIGHTOWER - Associated Press

FILE - This Oct. 13, 2013 file photo shows Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy speaking in Philadelphia. The Supreme Court on Wednesday said a federal law limits how much money victims of child pornography can recover from people who viewed their images online, throwing out a nearly $3.4 million judgment in favor of a woman whose childhood rape has been widely seen on the Internet. Kennedy said for the court that federal judges should exercise discretion in awarding restitution. The case involved a woman known in court papers by the pseudonym &quot;Amy.&quot; Her losses have been pegged at nearly $3.4 million, based on the ongoing Internet trade and viewing of images of her being raped by her uncle when she was 8 and 9 years old. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

High court nixes $3.4M award to child porn victim

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

Patrick calls affirmative action ruling troubling

By STEVE LeBLANC - Associated Press

FILE - This Oct. 13, 2013 file photo shows Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy speaking in Philadelphia. The Supreme Court on Wednesday said a federal law limits how much money victims of child pornography can recover from people who viewed their images online, throwing out a nearly $3.4 million judgment in favor of a woman whose childhood rape has been widely seen on the Internet. Kennedy said for the court that federal judges should exercise discretion in awarding restitution. The case involved a woman known in court papers by the pseudonym "Amy." Her losses have been pegged at nearly $3.4 million, based on the ongoing Internet trade and viewing of images of her being raped by her uncle when she was 8 and 9 years old. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

Divided court strikes down big porn award

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

FILE - This Sept. 19, 2013 file photo shows Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaking at the University of Delaware in Newark, Del. The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Michigan's ban on using race as a factor in college admissions. The justices said in a 6-2 ruling that Michigan voters had the right to change their state constitution to prohibit public colleges and universities from taking account of race in admissions decisions. The justices said that a lower federal court was wrong to set aside the change as discriminatory. In dissent, Sotomayor said the decision tramples on the rights of minorities, even though the amendment was adopted democratically. “But without checks, democratically approved legislation can oppress minority groups,” said Sotomayor, who read her dissent aloud in the courtroom Tuesday. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Michigan affirmative ban is OK, Supreme Court says

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

Ex-homeless student at UNR wins $30K scholarship

Associated Press