I have been watching the confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court. My perspective is unique. Back in 1991...

On CNN today, the two top members of the Senate Judiciary Committee hotly debated the undercurrent of ethnic/racial/identity politics that rippled through four days of the panel's confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor this past week...

Moderate Democrats have forced a key compromise to the Employee Free Choice Act, which removes one of the labor community's most cherished provisions from the bill. On Thursday...

The question was never whether, but always how, ethnicity would come up. The answer is that the emotional implications of ethnicity have threaded their way through the confirmation hearings of Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor returns to a Senate hearing room this morning for a second round of questioning after being grilled -- politely -- by Republicans yesterday and defended by Democrats as a fair jurist with a compelling life story.

Sonia Sotomayor is relying on her 17-year record as a federal judge to rebut criticism that she is concealing a liberal agenda that will show up if she is confirmed to the Supreme Court. Sotomayor...

Reporting from Washington -- Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor proclaimed Tuesday that she would not let ethnic or gender biases influence her decisions on the court...