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Aug 3, 2009 |
New York Times
We were not surprised that the vote for Judge Sonia Sotomayor in the Senate Judiciary Committee last week was partisan. What was surprising, and a bit distressing, was the flimsy arguments Republicans made for opposing her confirmation. We hope the vote in the full Senate for Judge Sotomayor will be overwhelming and the rhetoric more high-minded.
Aug 3, 2009 |
Miami Herald
Ever since President Barack Obama tapped Sotomayor -- a Yale graduate raised in a working-class Bronx neighborhood -- to serve as the first Hispanic on the nation's highest court, the nomination has become not only a source of pride among South Florida's Puerto Rican community, but also a platform to flex its political muscle.
Aug 3, 2009 |
Politico
Conservatives claim they’re sticking it to the president by voting against Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court — but in fact, they’re giving him an opportunity to appoint genuine progressives to the federal bench. By opposing Sotomayor, an unquestionably moderate and restrained jurist, Senate Republicans, with a few principled exceptions, have shown their determination to oppose anyone the president nominates, no matter how sterling their qualifications or how mainstream their record.
Aug 3, 2009 |
Washington Post
A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll last week captured the public's mixed verdict. The headlines focused on growing doubts about Obama's health-care plan and the drop in his approval rating, from 60 percent in February to 53 percent now.
But the same poll found that while Democrats as a party had a net positive rating of five points (42 percent positive to 37 percent negative), the GOP faced a 13-point deficit. Only 28 percent rated the Republicans positively; 41 percent rated them negatively.
Aug 2, 2009 |
Associated Press
Sen. John McCain says he is still on the fence when it comes to voting for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.
McCain says he is examining Sotomayor's record as an appeals court judge to decide whether she understands the limits to judicial power. He voted against her when she was nominated to the appeals court.
Aug 1, 2009 |
Chicago Tribune
The National Rifle Association's threat to punish senators who vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has been met with a shrug by Democrats from conservative-leaning states and some Republicans who are breaking with their party to support her.
Jul 30, 2009 |
Associated Press
The Senate's No. 3 Republican announced Thursday he'd break with the rest of his party's leaders to support Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, who's in line to become the first Hispanic justice.
Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander said he was voting for President Barack Obama's nominee despite his differences with her, particularly on gun rights.
Jul 30, 2009 |
NPR
In a speech on the Senate floor this morning, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee said he will vote to confirm Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court -- becoming the sixth Republican to do so.
Jul 30, 2009 |
USA Today
Sen. Lamar Alexander, a Tennessean who chairs the Republican Senate Conference, announced this morning that he will vote for President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, when she comes up for confirmation next week.
Jul 29, 2009 |
The Seattle Times
As good as Americans are entitled to feel about the honors to this meritorious product of a Bronx housing project, no one can be comforted by the spectacle of her journey through the Judiciary Committee. The antiseptic hearings and the near party-line vote illustrate the two great failings of the modern confirmation process.
Jul 29, 2009 |
Los Angeles Times
We'll see how the full Senate vote comes down to confirm the official death of the bipartisanship idea that was probably stillborn anyway. Polls show Americans like the idea or sound of bipartisanship, which is why Obama, and even George W. Bush over education reform, talk so regularly about desiring it. Sounds good, like pulling together to get swell, teamlike things done at summer camp.
Jul 27, 2009 |
CNN.com
Judge Sonia Sotomayor cruised through her confirmation hearings without a scratch.
Too bad we can't say the same about the seven Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee who tried to dent her credibility and wound up demolishing their own.
Jul 27, 2009 |
Politico
Sonia Sotomayor’s inspirational life journey has been at the center of her Supreme Court nomination story: from the South Bronx housing projects to a bid for the highest court in the country. But don’t expect to read that story between hard covers anytime soon.
If Sotomayor is confirmed by the Senate, she’s likely to follow the lead of her bench mates and focus on the law — not on memoirs — for the foreseeable future. Biographers, too, are likely to wait to see what impact she makes.
Jul 27, 2009 |
Politico
South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham is going to feel awfully lonely on the Republican side of the Judiciary Committee dais during Tuesday’s Sonia Sotomayor confirmation vote.
Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) — all of whom were undecided as of last week — will all vote no in committee. It’s not clear yet if Graham will be the only Republican “yes” vote on the panel.
Jul 26, 2009 |
Daily Kos
With that, Sotomayor has set back conservatives back years since they will have to wait until another vacancy under a conservative Republican's presidency. It's unclear how long that will be; even if Obama somehow doesn't win reelection, it's conceivable and likely that Stevens will wait to retire under a Democratic president. It's also highly likely that Obama lasts until 2012, in which case I give it a 60-40 chance that Kennedy retires, resulting in a net loss for conservatives.
It's not about being an "activist" for Sotomayor. It's all about upholding Roe v. Wade. And that's what's making the right-wing elites upset - though, I'm pretty sure it's that and racism that's making the wingnuts that listen to the conservative elites all riled up.
Jul 24, 2009 |
Congressional Quarterly
Anyone who expected fire from the Senate confirmation hearings on Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court had to be sorely disappointed — there wasn’t even a spark.
Our hope should be that she will not waffle in her opinions the way she did when asked to defend remarks she made in a speech back in 2001 in California. The backbone and courage — and, quite frankly, honesty — she displayed when she made that “wise Latina” remark somehow vanished when she was trying to soft-talk her way past the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Jul 23, 2009 |
NYTimes.com
More senators are weighing in this afternoon on where they stand on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
Jul 23, 2009 |
WashingtonPost.com
WASHINGTON -- Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Wednesday that he will vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, breaking with his party's conservative leaders to back President Barack Obama's choice to be the first Hispanic justice.
Jul 22, 2009 |
Politico.com
Sen. Susan Collins announced Tuesday that she would become the fourth Senate Republican to support Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court.
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