Early last week, I wrote the following on Twitter: “I am getting the impression that #Sotomayor is flying through the hearing, at least for now.” Though I don’t think it’s quite a huge surprise that Sotomayor isn’t having much trouble, and would not, given the 60-vote supermajority of the Democrats (most of their votes seem assured on this one), the question was where the chips would lay once every vote was tallied. Would all the Democrats vote in the affirmative? And how many, if any, Republicans would join them?
The answer is in the beginnings of its formulation when moderate Republican Lindsay Graham said today that, despite some of his misgivings, he would vote to confirm Sotormayor. Graham got a lot of attention last week when he gave some tough questions to Sotomayor regarding her past “wise Latina” statements and about her judicial philosophy.| MORE ›
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