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Sen. Herb Kohl (D.-Wis.) | Photo: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Panel at MU Law School To Advise Kohl on SotomayorMILWAUKEE (AP) -- A task force of legal experts and community leaders will help Sen. Herb Kohl evaluate Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor Tuesday in Milwaukee. Kohl meets with the 11-member bipartisan panel at the Marquette University Law School. President Barack Obama nominated Sotomayor in May. She would be the first Hispanic to serve on the high court. Sotomayor's nomination hearings are scheduled to begin July 13 before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Kohl and fellow Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold sit on that committee. Both senators voted to confirm Sotomayor in 1998 when President Bill Clinton nominated her for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. (Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) |
     
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