WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, on Monday promised to apply the law impartially as Republicans questioned her objectivity on the first day of her confirmation hearings.
Sotomayor, 55, is widely expected to win confirmation and become the first Hispanic justice on the ideologically-divided Supreme Court, whose nine members rule on key Constitutional issues such as the death penalty, abortion and gun rights.
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