Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Sotomayor Nomination
Posted by Keith Kamisugi | Filed under Confirmation Process
From the AP: The Senate Judiciary Committee has voted to approve Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor to be the first Hispanic justice. The committee voted 13-6 Tuesday morning to send Sotomayor’s nomination to the full Senate, where she’s expected to be confirmed easily next week. Just one Republican, South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham, joined Democrats in [...]
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GOP Senators Wrong to Blame Democrats for Political Divide on Sotomayor
Posted by Keith Kamisugi | Filed under Confirmation Process, Filibuster, Opinion
In today’s Los Angeles Times, an article by David Savage buys into the Republican rationale for a near party line vote on Judge Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
“Prior to this decade,” writes Savage, “Supreme Court justices who won confirmation usually had the backing of most of the Senate. Justices John Paul Stevens, Antonin Scalia [...]
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