Obama court choice and international law
President Obama’s selected Sonia Sotomayor to fill the upcoming vacancy on the Supreme Court. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with David Stras, a former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, about the selection, and about Judge Sotomayor’s use of international legal precedent in her work.
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