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Sotomayor confirmed
The 55 year old Sonia Sotomayor won confirmation Thursday afternoon as the nation's 111th Supreme Court justice and the first ever of Latino descent, a historic moment for the nation's fastest-growing minority group.
On a 68 to 31 vote, the Senate confirmed Sotomayor after roughly 18 hours of official debate spread across three days this week. The show of support included nine Republican 'aye' votes and 59 from the Democratic side of the aisle. All 31 votes against Sotomayor came from Republicans.
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Clinton talks tough in Kenya
While her husband embarked on his humanitarian trip to North Korea earlier this week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was en route to Kenya, and today she had a tough message to Kenya’s leaders.
Clinton said she is carrying that message straight from President Obama, “the son of Kenya,” and said that if the Kenyan government does not set up a legal tribunal to prosecute those behind last year’s election violence, the International Criminal Court would get involved.
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