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Law professor letter supporting Judge Sotomayor with lots of signatures

By Douglas A. Berman

This press release from Columbia Law School, which is titled "Nearly 1,200 Law Professors Unite to Back Sotomayor Nomination to Supreme Court," reports on an effort to which I have devotes a bit of time and energy.  Here are the details from the press release: Daniel Richman, professor of law at Columbia Law School, announced today that 1,181 law professors from across the country have signed a letter sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee in uncharacteristically unified support of the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. The letter, which the Committee received today, concludes: ?Judge Sotomayor will bring to the Supreme Court an extraordinary personal story, academic qualifications, remarkable professional accomplishments and much needed ethnic and gender diversity...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 08, 2009 (boomark / email).