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Jul 22, 2009 |
WSJ.com
WASHINGTON – Republican Senators continued to weigh whether or not to back Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor Tuesday, with one lawmaker voicing support and most others holding back from announcing how they plan to vote.
Jul 22, 2009 |
USAToday.com
WASHINGTON — Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans Tuesday secured a one-week delay in the committee vote on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.
Jul 21, 2009 |
National Journal
Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., announced today that he will vote against Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation to the Supreme Court, becoming the seventh senator to do so.
"Her statements during the confirmation hearing before the Judiciary Committee do not always match the philosophies she has expressed prior to this hearing, such as her application of foreign law," Thune said in a statement released this evening.
Jul 21, 2009 |
USA Today
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor -- whose Senate confirmation seems a foregeon conclusion -- also enjoys strong support among the public, according to a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll.
In the poll, 55% of respondents favor confirmation of Sotomayor, while 36% oppose it.
Jul 21, 2009 |
WSJ.com
After many weeks of silence on Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court, NARAL ProChoice America says it’s endorsing her.
Jul 21, 2009 |
USA Today
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is on track for an early August confirmation vote, following four days of testimony that won her praise from even some of the Senate Judiciary Committee's more conservative members.
Jul 21, 2009 |
Politico
Democrats and Republicans have been putting their constitutional philosophies on display. The confirmation hearings left us no wiser about Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s constitutional outlook, but the senators’ statements told us that Republicans have a bolder and clearer constitutional philosophy than Democrats.
The Democrats often seemed to deny they had a philosophy at all. They want to hold onto (what’s left of) the liberal constitutional achievements of the past. But that’s no substitute for a broad account of what the Constitution stands for today and how they want constitutional law to develop over the next couple of decades. During moments like this one, Democrats need to light the path for the court and the nation. They should bring to the fore the president’s (admittedly understated but rich and promising) constitutional outlook and rhetoric. There is more there than “empathy.”
Jul 21, 2009 |
Congressional Quarterly
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday he would not support any effort to block a floor vote on the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court and does not expect any of his fellow Republicans to do so either.
Jul 20, 2009 |
Wall Street Journal
At her confirmation hearing last week, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor took extraordinary pains to avoid saying anything that conceivably could spark the tiniest bit of controversy from any possible constituency. But in written answers to follow-up questions, the federal appeals judge from New York may have taken caution to a hitherto unknown level.
Jul 20, 2009 |
National Journal
Judge Sonia Sotomayor responded to written questions from five GOPers on the Senate Judiciary Cmte today, but she rarely expanded on the details provided during last week's confirmation hearings. And two GOP senators -- Lindsey Graham (SC) and Orrin Hatch (UT) -- apparently declined to take the opportunity to pose additional questions.
Jul 20, 2009 |
Associated Press
GOP senators on the Judiciary Committee plan to block a panel vote scheduled for Tuesday, delaying the committee's action on President Barack Obama's first high court nominee until July 28. But Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, the No. 2 Republican, said he thought the subsequent Senate debate on Sotomayor's confirmation could be completed in four days.
Jul 20, 2009 |
Huffington Post
The Bork hearings were a real fight to be sure, and the press loves fireworks. But 2009 is not 1987, and the fight over President Obama's nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, pales in comparison to the Bork showdown of the '80s.
Jul 20, 2009 |
Wall Street Journal
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy accused Republicans Sunday of playing the race card on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.
“You have one leader of the Republican Party call her the equivalent of the head of the Ku Klux Klan. Another leader of the Republican Party called her a bigot,” the Vermont Democrat said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “The leadership of the Republican Party came out against her long before we had the hearings, long before they looked at her record. I think that’s unfair.”
Jul 19, 2009 |
Los Angeles Times
In introducing Judge Sonia Sotomayor as his first nominee to the Supreme Court, President Obama said that she satisfied three criteria: a rigorous mastery of the law, a recognition that judges "interpret, not make, law," and an understanding, rooted in experience, of how ordinary people live. If there were any doubts about that characterization, they were dispelled by the nominee's impressive performance last week at her confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
For many senators, that is the beginning and end of the inquiry. We don't agree. It matters, at this point in U.S. history, that Sotomayor is also (in words that have haunted her) a "wise Latina” -- that is, a woman and a member of a minority whose increasing numbers have been accompanied in many parts of the country by hostility and discrimination.
Jul 17, 2009 |
WSJ.com
Frank Ricci, the firefighter at the center of a controversial case that has played a central role in Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearing, delivered a spirited defense of his lawsuit Thursday and attack on courts that ruled against him.
Jul 16, 2009 |
WashingtonPost.com
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) tried to place Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor in some school of constitutional interpretation. Legal realist? Originalist? Strict constructionist, perhaps?
Jul 15, 2009 |
NYTimes.com
The hardwood floor was shiny yet scuffed, from the tiny chairs and desks that have rubbed against it for generations. The open windows let in a cool breeze. The pencil sharpener on the window sill sat at attention, as did Dorothy Faustini’s fourth- and fifth-grade math students.
Jul 15, 2009 |
ChicagoTribune.com
WASHINGTON (AP) — Abortion opponents saw their issue take center stage when Sen. Lindsey Graham questioned Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor about her 12-year tenure with the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund.
Jul 15, 2009 |
Huffington Post
MSNBC pundit Pat Buchanan, who's fond of warning people that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is a Hispanic trickster who learned English through chupacabra magicks in orations before people who cannot spell words in English themselves had a full-blown panic attack today in the pages of Human Events, as the hour of Sotomayor's confirmation drew nigh. His basic argument is that Sotomayor is the greatest threat to white people since...uhm...well...sorry, nothing's coming to me. Nothing serious, anyway!
Jul 14, 2009 |
HuffingtonPost.com
This latest development may be breaking new boundaries in guilt-by-association political attacks.
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