Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation communications director, discusses Barack Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the U.S. Supreme Court. Kokai offered these comments for Johnell Johnson’s report May 26, 2009, on News 14 Carolina.
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