During the presidential campaign, then-candidate Barack Obama said that he hoped his administration wouldn't get hung up on matters of race.

But several Republicans have said recently that his nomination of federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court has made race an issue.

Former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich called Sotomayor a racist. Read full article »

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