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The Republican Party risks further alienating Hispanic voters if it challenges the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, who would become the first Hispanic, and the third woman, on the Supreme Court, political analysts say.

On Tuesday, President Obama nominated 54-year-old Sotomayor -- who is of Puerto Rican descent -- to replace the retiring Justice David Souter.

Sotomayor is a judge on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, named to that post by President Bill Clinton when she was a U.S. District Court judge, nominated by President George H.W. Bush in 1992. Read full article »

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