As Expected: Senate Panel Endorses SCOTUS Nominee Sonia Sotomayor in 13-6 Vote
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on July 28, 2009
Nothing unexpected here to report.
From New York Times:
Senate Panel Endorses Sotomayor in 13-6 Vote
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted on Tuesday to endorse the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, easing her path to likely confirmation as the first Hispanic member of the tribunal.
As expected, all 12 Democrats on the judiciary panel voted for Judge Sotomayor. But among the seven Republicans on the committee, only Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina voted in favor.
“She is a restrained, fair and impartial judge,” said Senator Patrick J. Leahy, the Vermont Democrat who heads the committee.
The action sends the nomination to the full Senate, where her confirmation by a comfortable margin seems to be assured.
Republican critics of the judge expressed displeasure with her rulings as a member of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, as well as with some of her public comments. The rulings and comments show that she is a judge who is too “activist” and liberal and has too little commitment to the rights of gun owners, the critics complained.
Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the committee’s leading Republican, said just before the vote that he was compelled to oppose the nomination because of the judge’s “liberal, pro-government ideology.”
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Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, said he struggled with his decision and had decided “with regret” to vote against the judge. He said his opposition was based on a close study of her rulings — unlike, he said, the opposition of Barack Obama in 2005, when he was a Senator, to the nomination of Judge John G. Roberts Jr. to be chief justice.
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The Patriot’s Mind: Fact Check: Senator attempts to avoid Sotomayor’s exact quotes!
Ed Whelan, NRO: More Sotomayor on Use of Foreign Law
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John Romano, Big Hollywood: Race Only Matters When it Favors Democrats
Ed Driscoll, Pajamas Media: Some Narratives Are Better Than Others
Sister Toldjah: The Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings
Excellence in America: The Questions Sotomayor Should Be Asked – America Deserves Answers
Rosita the Prole: Sotomayor’s White Boyfriend (named “Mr. White,” you can’t make this stuff up) Dumped Her For a Younger Woman. I Think We Have Located the Origin of the “Wise Latinas Do It Better Than Stupid White Men” Remark.
Commentary Magazine: Sotomayor Morphs Into Justice Roberts
Teh Resistance Blog: Firefighter Frank Ricci about to be picked, targeted, frozen, personalized and polarized
Grand Rants: Supreme Court To Sotomayor: You Blew It… Again
Mike Sargent: NewsBusters: Coulter’s Cajun Barbecue: Coulter vs Carville On Good Morning America
Ann Coulter, World Net Daily: So much for wise Latinas
Washington Post: Ricci Decision Provides Rallying Point for Opposition
La Shawn Barber’s Corner: Supreme Court Sides with White Firefighters – Opinion
Op-Toons: Lawyers Advise Fire Departments to Close Until Fires Destroy More Racially Proportionate Numbers of Homes
Rasmussen Reports: Public Support for Sotomayor Falls After Supreme Court Reversal
Frank DiMartini, Big Hollywood: The End of Reverse Discrimination?
Legal Insurrection: Now The Sotomayor Polls Don’t Matter
Hot Air Green Room: Sotomayor and the politics of race
The TIW Blog: Racist, bigoted Sotomayor repudiated by SCOTUS
Axis of Right: Sonia Sotomayor Overruled (again) by SCOTUS
CQ Politics: Sotomayor Spin Wars Have White House Working Overtime
Northern Thoughts and Reflections: It Just Keeps Coming; More on Sotomayor, and it isn’t good
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Democrat Attack Dogs Waiting to Leap on Frank Ricci: SCOTUS Hearings for Sonia Sotomayor Begin Today and Warning Signs about Sonia Sotomayor, from Andrew Breitbart and “Clarence Thomas & Miguel Estrada’s Backgrounds Didn’t Impress Democrats”: Ann Coulter Rejects Getting All Weepy about Ultra-Liberal Hispanic Sotomayor’s SCOTUS Nomination (video) and Repeated Bias: Sotomayor Has Made ‘Wise Latina/Better Decisions’ Remark Several Times
PA WaterCooler.com: Say No to Sonia!
Caleb Posner’s Blog: Sotomayor the Latina Extremist
Floyd and Mary Beth Brown’s Blog: Sotomayor’s Selective Empathy
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