70 Votes for Sotomayor?

From Sam Stein today on Huffington Post:
Nearly a month after she was nominated, Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation for the Supreme Court is about as close to a sure thing as the Obama White House could have hoped for. The Court of Appeal’s Judge has had few hiccups — certainly little of note — since her [...]

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Reagan aide: Don’t go to war over nominee

Ed Rollins, former national chair of the Republican Party and White House political director under President Reagan, says today on CNN.com that the “confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor is not the battle to be waged and it won’t be won.”
“Sotomayor is not deserving to be on the Supreme Court because she is Puerto Rican or a [...]

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