... row behind her in the packed hearing room. Sotomayor spoke after listening for hours as Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee praised her as a pioneer well qualified for the high court and Republicans questioned her impartiality and accused ...

... a special prosecutor came on the eve of Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor ... administration's conduct in the war on terror, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said that ...

... of a marathon Senate grilling on the road to all but sure confirmation. After two long days of questioning by Judiciary Committee senators, Sotomayor had yet to make a slip certainly not the gaffe that even Republicans concede would be necessary ...

... testified Thursday in favor of President Barack Obama's pick for the Supreme Court during hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington. McDaniel had never met Sotomayor but sided with the federal court judge in a case she had ruled ...

... polarizing system college football uses to crown its national champion. The hearing will be held next Tuesday in the Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on antitrust, competition policy and consumer rights, according to a posting on the committee ...

... Center for Reproductive Rights, released a guarded statement this week in which she asked members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to fully "engage" Sotomayor on her "commitment to the principle of Roe vs. Wade" and that "anything less ...

... as she sat for her daily grilling by the Senate Judiciary Committee, did not reflect the fashion industry's constant ... mostly unremarkable when they appeared before the Judiciary Committee. The families are always another story. Martha ...

... the law to the facts of the case." The Senate Judiciary Committee is to open hearings Monday on Sotomayor's nomination ... delay, while Sessions, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said "we'll see" whether it would be appropriate ...

... qualifications and her testimony at four days of Judiciary Committee hearings this week. "I was pleased that Judge ... Sessions of Alabama, the senior Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said Thursday that neither he nor any GOP senator ...

... to" as a candidate, said Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah. FBI Director Mueller made his comments before the House Judiciary Committee. Prodded by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., to agree that Guantanamo detainees could be kept safely in maximum ...