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Justice Sonia Sotomayor

Damon Root | 8.6.2009 4:47 PM

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It's official. The Senate has confirmed Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court by a vote of 68-31. For a refresher on Sotomayor's views on gun rights, private property, racial classifications, and criminal justice (among other issues), check out Reason's Sotomayor coverage here.

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Damon Root is a senior editor at Reason and the author of three books, including A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution (Potomac Books). His latest book is Emancipation War: The Fall of Slavery and the Coming of the Thirteenth Amendment (Potomac Books).

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