Sonia Sotomayor

Following Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court, Pat Buchanan went to eleven. He said that Sotomayor “believed discrimination against white males is okay”; he said she believed in “tribal justice” and “preached and practiced race discrimination against white males”; and he generally spent a great deal of time accusing Sonia Sotomayor of being a […]

By a vote of 68-31, the Senate has voted to confirm Sonia Sotomayor as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. Her vote was not the most polarizing of recent confirmations: While John Roberts was approved by a vote of 72-22, Samuel Alito was only approved by a vote of 58-42. Nine Republicans broke ranks […]

Today, Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination is set to be put to debate before the full Senate. Reading Senator John McCain‘s announcement that he would vote against Sotomayor’s confirmation to the Supreme Court yesterday, one begins to notice a theme among Republicans opposed to her nomination: However, an excellent resume and an inspiring life story are not […]

With Lindsey Graham being the only Republican who has said he will vote for Sonia Sotomayor, the Senate Judiciary Committee vote is expected to fall largely along party lines, with 13-6 with the remaining Republicans voting no. This will be the first time Orrin Hatch of Utah will be voting against a Supreme Court nominee […]

Former Bush administration Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says Sonia Sotomayor should be confirmed. — A. Serwer

In a not entirely unsurprising development, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham has decided to vote to confirm Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, bringing the Republican total to five. During the hearings, Graham was a mess of contradictions–on the one hand, he often spoke to Sotomayor in a patronizing tone, basically asking her if she […]

Despite prodding from church-state separation advocates, no member of the Senate Judiciary Committee asked Judge Sonia Sotomayor about her views on the Establishment Clause or Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment during her confirmation hearings. Republicans, like Oklahoma’s Tom Coburn, talked about the Second Amendment “hanging in the balance” — a questionable jurisprudential assertion […]

Rounding up our coverage from yesterday, Sen. Kyl reveals he’s looking for a results-oriented judge; Michael Gerson took my comments about Sonia Sotomayor out of context (he seems to do that a lot); Jeff Sessions wanted to do “that crack cocaine thing”; Lindsey Graham ethered Linda Chavez with a little honesty about Republicans and race; […]

The Republicans on the committee all but conceded today that Sonia Sotomayor would be confirmed. Even Jeff Sessions, who has been Sotomayor’s leading critic on the panel, said that “I will not support and don’t think anyone else on this committee will support a filibuster of your nomination.” Lindsey Graham, despite having asked some patronizing […]