Court Views Work Of Potential Picks.

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Two of the federal judges recommended to President Obama for the Supreme Court are having their work reviewed by the very justices they would join. And their opinions, in two of the term's most controversial cases, have been criticized by the Obama administration.

Judge Sonia Sotomayor of New York was part of a three-judge panel that upheld New Haven, Conn.'s, decision to scuttle a promotions test for firefighters after the results showed no African Americans qualified for advancement. The white firefighters who would have been promoted said the decision violated federal law and their constitutional rights.

Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw of California ruled that Arizona middle-school officials had violated the constitutional rights of a 13-year-old student by forcing her to strip to her underwear in an unsuccessful search for drugs -- in this case, ibuprofen.

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