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Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor vigorously defended herself today against charges that her speeches and rulings show racial bias, telling a Senate panel vetting her nomination that critics had misunderstood her record.

Confirmation hearings are due in the US Senate for President Obama's nominee to serve on the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor.

The American Bar Association on Tuesday gave U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor its top rating, boosting her anticipated confirmation as the first Hispanic justice on the highest U.S. court.

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has bonded with female senators about her childhood love of Nancy Drew mysteries and shared war stories with the Senate's former prosecutors about her days in the gritty Manhattan district attorney's office.

A lengthy questionnaire filled out by Judge Sonia Sotomayor was delivered to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday in preparation for Sotomayor's expected U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings this summer.

Judge Sonia Sotomayor is set to begin making the rounds Tuesday on Capitol Hill, meeting key U.S. senators who will help decide whether or not she becomes the country's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice.

Judge Sonia Sotomayor dominated the sounds of Sunday, as you might expect on the weekend after the first African-American president announced his nomination of the first Latina woman for the nation's highest court.

Announcement will be made before Obama leaves for a two-day trip to California and Las Vegas that will focus mostly on fundraising events.