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The PBS star attracted crowds to what appeared on the surface as a way to help black borrowers build wealth, but a lawsuit alleges it was actually just the opposite.

As lawsuits wind their way through the court system, more details and allegations about the inner workings of the subprime world are emerging.

Under intense grilling from Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) this afternoon, Judge Sonia Sotomayor was forced to confront directly her words in various speeches to minority law students over the past two decades in which she said that gender and ethnicity can affect how a judge views a case, and may in some situations affect the [...]

The 172-pages of answers (not including the appendix) provided by Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday reveal, as one would expect, a long resume replete with the academic credentials and professional honors we’ve already heard about, plus lots of details of key opinions and the varied list of publications and speeches [...]

Having just listened to a conference call of legal experts set up by the White House to provide reporters the Obama administration’s spin on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, I have to wonder if liberals, when they’re done defending Judge Sotomayor from the right’s attacks, may end up being disappointed with the president’s choice.

Reporters and commentators having been making much of the fact that in the case of Ricci v. DeStefano — which upheld New Haven’s right to discard the results of two promotional exams for firefighters, to avoid promoting only white firefighters  — Judge Sonia Sotomayor joined two other Second Circuit Court of Appeals judges in issuing [...]

One of the things that most infuriates conservative commentators like Michelle Malkin and Stuart Taylor about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is that in delivering a 2002 speech at UC-Berkeley, the judge said that “our experiences as women and people of color affect our decisions” and that “I would hope that a wise Latina woman [...]

A new report released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center found that low-income Latino immigrants face increasing hostility as they fill low-wage jobs in the southern United States, which until recently had few Latino immigrants until recently. Based on a survey of 500 low-income Latinos across the South — including legal residents, undocumented immigrants [...]

You wouldn’t think it would be news that the president of the United States went along with 66 other nations to sign a statement declaring that homosexuality should not be a crime. But after eight years of President George W. Bush, you can’t take anything for granted. So President Obama’s two-sentence sign-on to the United [...]