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Judge Sonia Sotomayor won U.S. Senate approval on Thursday to become the first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court.

A seventh Republican broke ranks on Wednesday and backed Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, who appeared virtually certain of winning Senate approval as the first Hispanic on the highest U.S. court.

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday approved President Barack Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court, all but ensuring she will become the court's first Hispanic justice.

Senate Republicans on Tuesday slowed down the anticipated confirmation of U.S. President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor.

GOP senators press the Supreme Court nominee for her views on controversial subjects. But Sotomayor avoids engaging with her questioners and sticks to her judicial record.

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.

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.

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.