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Amy K. Matsui, Senior Counsel and Director of Women and the Courts

Amy K. Matsui is Senior Counsel and Director of Women and the Courts at the National Women’s Law Center. She works on economic issues affecting low- and moderate-income women and families, with special emphasis on federal and state tax policy and women’s retirement security. Her work with retirement savings policy and federal and state tax credits for working families comprises policy analysis, federal advocacy, and public education and outreach. She also directs the Center's advocacy efforts around federal judicial nominations and diversity in the federal judiciary. Ms. Matsui has worked at the Center since 2002. Prior to joining the Center, Ms. Matsui practiced commercial law in the private sector. She clerked for the Honorable Carolyn Dineen King, then-Chief Judge of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, in 2000. She is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, and Stanford Law School.

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Update: Senator Graham to Support Sotomayor

Posted by Amy K. Matsui, Senior Counsel and Director of Women and the Courts | Posted on: July 22, 2009 at 06:34 pm

by Amy Matsui, Senior Counsel, 
National Women’s Law Center 

This post is part of a series about the nomination of Judge Sotomayor for the Supreme Court.

Senator Graham, a Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, just announced on the Senate floor that he will be supporting Judge Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court, one day after Senator Sessions delayed a vote by the Committee.

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Sessions Delays Committee Vote on Sotomayor. Because He Can.

Posted by Amy K. Matsui, Senior Counsel and Director of Women and the Courts | Posted on: July 22, 2009 at 03:23 pm

by Amy Matsui, Senior Counsel, 
National Women’s Law Center 

The hearings are over, Judge Sotomayor’s answers to written questions have been turned in, and all that’s left for the Senate Judiciary Committee is a vote. But we will have to wait until next Tuesday for that to happen. The Committee was scheduled to vote on the nomination of Judge Sotomayor yesterday, but Senator Sessions, taking advantage of Committee rules, required that the vote be delayed for a week.

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Senator Cornyn: No Filibuster?

Posted by Amy K. Matsui, Senior Counsel and Director of Women and the Courts | Posted on: July 15, 2009 at 08:00 pm

by Amy Matsui, Senior Counsel, 
National Women's Law Center 

This post is part of a series about the nomination of Judge Sotomayor for the Supreme Court.

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