Senate Pushing Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor's confirmation
Posted on Wednesday, August 05 @ 08:48:34 EDT
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 ALIPAC NOTE: Call your US Senators immediately and ask them to hold back the vote on Sonia Sotomayor until after the summer break and after they have come home to speak with their constituents!
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WASHINGTON - The Senate opened debate Tuesday on
Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination - with a slam-dunk vote
elevating her to the nation's top court coming as soon as Thursday.
(<--- OVERT BIAS IN THIS ARTICLE FROM James Gordon Meek)
Six Republicans and most Democrats - who enjoy a 60-seat majority -
have said they'll approve the Bronx-born federal appeals court judge.
Sotomayor, whose parents immigrated from Puerto Rico, is poised to
become the nation's first Hispanic justice.
Republican Senate leaders assailed Sotomayor as a so-called activist judge.
BY James Gordon Meek
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
Wednesday, August 5th 2009
Top GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said,
"A judge must be able to check his or her personal or political agenda
at the courtroom door and do justice evenhandedly. ... It's a test
Judge Sotomayor does not pass."
But Democratic supporters fired back. "That is not the kind of judge
she has been for the last 17 years" on the federal bench, argued
Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy.
"Instead, she has applied the law to the facts in the cases she has
considered," added the top Dem on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The Senate is expected to approve Sotomayor before starting a summer
vacation at the end of the week. President Obama picked Sotomayor to
replace retiring Associate Justice David Souter.
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