Viji Sundaram writes for the Tribuna Newspaper, “Calling it one of the best options the Obama administration has made available to battered women around the world, women’s advocacy groups in the United States lauded the administration for making it possible for these women to begin a new life in this country.”
C. Nicole Mason’s commentary in Women’s eNews begins, “I suppose it’s a good thing Judge Sonya Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings have been a little boring and uneventful. I keep waiting for the scandalous hidden love affair to emerge, but nothing. No affair, unpaid taxes or skeletons to derail her confirmation.”
Many NOW activists were interviewed by the Washington Post outside of the Sotomayor hearing, including NOW President-elect Terry O’Neill.
Julie Rovner writes for NPR’s Morning Edition, “More than nearly any other issue, abortion has the potential to throw a wrench into the already fragile gears of the major health care overhaul now starting to churn on Capitol Hill.”
Emily Bazelon writes for the New York Times about her interview with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “As the only woman working alongside eight men — Ginsburg has a unique perspective on what’s at stake in Sotomayor’s nomination. I sat down with the 76-year-old justice last week to talk about women on the bench and their Read more …
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