Washington Post:
The Senate Judiciary Committee this morning endorsed Sonia Sotomayor to become an associate justice of the Supreme Court on a largely partisan vote that sends her historic nomination to the full Senate for a final decision on her confirmation.
The 13 to 6 vote came nearly two weeks after the committee's members grilled Sotomayor for 2 ½ days, eliciting answers that betrayed little indication of how the nominee, an appellate judge for the past 11 years, would rule on the most significant issues that come before the nation's highest court.....
....Sotomayor was not present Tuesday — she went through four days of questioning two weeks ago — and was opposed by the other six Republicans on the panel: ranking member Jeff Sessions (Ala.), John Cornyn (Texas), Tom Coburn (Okla.), Jon Kyl (Ariz.), Chuck Grassley (Iowa) and Orrin Hatch (Utah)....
Only Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina voted to support her nomination.
We will remember the names of those Republicans who voted against the first Latino woman's nomination for the Supreme Court------Sessions, Cornyn, Coburn, Kyl, Grassley, and Hatch. Six old white men voted against her. Were they anti-female, anti-Latino, or anti-Obama nomination? I hope that Latino voters mark their names down and remember them on election day.
