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Senate Committee Approves Sotomayor
Full Senate To Vote Next Week
Updated: Tuesday, 28 Jul 2009, 5:40 PM EDT
Published : Tuesday, 28 Jul 2009, 12:18 PM EDT
WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee has voted to approve Supreme
Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor to be the first
Hispanic justice.
The committee voted 13-6 Tuesday morning to send Sotomayor's nomination to the full Senate, where she's expected to be confirmed easily next week.
Just one Republican, South Carolina's Lindsey Graham, joined Democrats in voting for President Barack Obama's first high court nominee. The panel's chairman, Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy, called Sotomayor a restrained, fair and impartial judge who has not favored any one group of people over another.
But the top Republican, Alabama's Jeff Sessions, said her speeches and some rulings revealed beliefs that conflict with the idea of blind justice and fidelity to the law.
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