Sotomayor fights racial bias charges

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

WASHINGTON -- Sonia Sotomayor pushed back Tuesday against Republican charges she would bring bias and a liberal agenda to her seat as the first Hispanic woman on the Supreme Court, saying repeatedly she would be impartial as GOP senators tried to undercut her with her own words from past speeches.

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