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Obama Appoints Record Number Of Women Judges To Federal Bench
By Amanda Terkel for Huffington Post – WASHINGTON — With the confirmation of Stephanie Rose as a U.S. district court judge on Monday, President Barack Obama has put 72 women on the federal bench — the most ever appointed by a president in one term. It also ties the number former President George W. Bush…
Read MoreThe Place of Women on the Court
By EMILY BAZELON, The New York Times In late February, three weeks after she had an operation for a recurrence of cancer, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg went to Barack Obama’s first address to Congress. Given the circumstances, it wasn’t an event anyone expected her to attend. She went, she said, because she wanted the country to see that…
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