May 31

Daily Freeman, Kingston, N.Y., on the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for U.S. Supreme Court bench:

... By every conventional measure, (Sonia) Sotomayor, 54, is highly qualified for the Supreme Court bench. From Phi Beta Kappa at Princeton University to law review at Yale Law School and from New York City prosecutor to private litigation to 18 years on the federal bench, her resume is one of consistent achievement, up from hardscrabble roots in the Bronx, mostly as the daughter of a widowed, working mother.

Sotomayor, then, is a safe choice, perhaps eve...

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