‘What Sotomayor Senate vote really portends for Obama’s future’
Posted by Keith Kamisugi | Filed under Opinion
In a blog post today on latimes.com, Andrew Malcolm actually says very little about the impact on President Obama of the Senate vote on Judge Sotomayor, despite the post title. The piece should have been titled “Sotomayor: Americans Profess to Like Bipartisanship, but Vote Otherwise.”
” … polls and elections also show that Americans collectively really [...]
Tags: Andrew Malcolm, bipartisanship, Congress, lat, los angeles times
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 [...]
Tags: david savage, lat, latimes, los angeles times, party line vote, simon lazarus
