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Jul 10 2009, 05:14 AM

New Report Looks at Sotomayor by the Numbers
The National Law Journal

The Brennan Center for Justice is joining the attempts to measure quantitatively the "judicial activism" of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, releasing a report Thursday that describes Sotomayor as in the mainstream of judges on the 2nd Circuit. Monica Youn, a lawyer in the Brennan Center's Democracy Program and a lead author of its new report, said the center wanted to build on previous academic studies and try to have an objective standard for measuring the hotly debated topic of judicial activism.

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