Committee Votes to Send Nomination of Sotomayor to Senate Floor
Washington Post News Alert 12:00 PM EDT Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Committee Votes to Send Nomination of Sotomayor to Senate Floor
http://tinyurl.com/mm9q7f
The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved President Obama's first Supreme Court pick Sonia Sotomayor in a largely party-line vote, sending the nomination to the floor. The full Senate is expected to vote next week…
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This morning's vote was as notable for its sharp polarization between the political parties as it was for its lack of drama. All the members had announced in advance how they intended to vote.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.), a conservative, was the only Republican to join the committee's dozen Democrats in supporting Sotomayor. Two of the veteran GOP senators who voted against her, Charles E. Grassley (Iowa) and Orin Hatch (Utah), have never before opposed a Supreme Court nominee.
The committee's vote was more polarized than its September 2005 vote on the nomination of John G. Roberts Jr., who is now the Supreme Court's chief justice, when Democrats joined the panel's Republicans in supporting his confirmation. This morning's vote, however, was less divided than it had been for the court's most recent member, Samuel A. Alito Jr., in January 2006 when the panel split entirely along party lines.
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For more information, visit washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/28/AR2009072801180.html?hpid=topnews
20090728 sdosm Nomination of Sotomayor to go to Senate Floor
Washington Post News Alert 12:00 PM EDT Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Committee Votes to Send Nomination of Sotomayor to Senate Floor
http://tinyurl.com/mm9q7f
The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved President Obama's first Supreme Court pick Sonia Sotomayor in a largely party-line vote, sending the nomination to the floor. The full Senate is expected to vote next week…
[…]
This morning's vote was as notable for its sharp polarization between the political parties as it was for its lack of drama. All the members had announced in advance how they intended to vote.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.), a conservative, was the only Republican to join the committee's dozen Democrats in supporting Sotomayor. Two of the veteran GOP senators who voted against her, Charles E. Grassley (Iowa) and Orin Hatch (Utah), have never before opposed a Supreme Court nominee.
The committee's vote was more polarized than its September 2005 vote on the nomination of John G. Roberts Jr., who is now the Supreme Court's chief justice, when Democrats joined the panel's Republicans in supporting his confirmation. This morning's vote, however, was less divided than it had been for the court's most recent member, Samuel A. Alito Jr., in January 2006 when the panel split entirely along party lines.
[…]
For more information, visit washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/28/AR2009072801180.html?hpid=topnews
20090728 sdosm Nomination of Sotomayor to go to Senate Floor
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