{"id":2645,"date":"2009-08-04T11:02:37","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T15:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=2645"},"modified":"2009-08-04T11:03:43","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T15:03:43","slug":"senate-debate-sotomayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/08\/04\/senate-debate-sotomayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate debates Sotomayor bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2648\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/08\/justice-scales1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"justice-scales1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>With her historic nomination in the balance, the Senate is <a title=\"debating\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5huyApqmCqq9U5Hw9jP5IYR1gSQEwD99RTS8G1\" target=\"_blank\">debating<\/a> whether to approve Sonia Sotomayor as the first Hispanic justice of the Supreme Court &#8212; though the outcome is not in doubt.\u00a0 School of Law Professor <a title=\"Jack Beermann\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/full-time\/beermann_j.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Beermann<\/a>, an expert on the high court, can discuss the possible legal trajectory of the SCOTUS with Sotomayor onboard.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Jack Beermann, 617-353-2577, \u00a0<a href=\"mailto:beermann@bu.edu\">beermann@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With her historic nomination in the balance, the Senate is debating whether to approve Sonia Sotomayor as the first Hispanic justice of the Supreme Court &#8212; though the outcome is not in doubt.\u00a0 School of Law Professor Jack Beermann, an expert on the high court, can discuss the possible legal trajectory of the SCOTUS with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1035,533],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2652,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions\/2652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}