Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The audio here is FSRN’s own production recording. Originally published July 16, 2009.
Republicans are paving the way for an easy confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to be the next Supreme Court Justice, making her the third woman and the first Latina to sit on the high court.
But first, Republicans quizzed Sotomayor on her role in the case of the white New Haven firefighters who sued the city government for employment discrimination. The lead plaintiff in the case was Frank Ricci, he testified against Sotomayor today. FSRN´s Leigh Ann Caldwell reports.
