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Sotomayor Asks More Questions in Supreme Court Debut Than Thomas Did in Years
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| Last Edited | RP Oct 08, 2009 07:47pm |
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| Author | Rob Kuznia |
| News Date | Thursday, October 8, 2009 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | During her debut performance on the Supreme Court bench Monday, Sonia Sotomayor asked more questions in one hour than Clarence Thomas did over the course of several years, according to McClatchy News Service.
The famously taciturn Thomas went for two entire years -- or 144 consecutive cases -- without making a single statement, the AP reported in 2008.
By contrast, Sotomayor on Monday asked as many questions as Chief Justice John G. Roberts, according to the Washington Post.
Thomas has publicly addressed
his silence on the bench. He has attributed it in part to his struggle as a child in Georgia to learn standard English after growing up speaking a dialect called Geechee, which thrived among former slaves, the AP reported. |
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