Senate Confirms Sonia Sotomayor as Supreme Court Justice
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What a historic day for the country—Sonia Sotomayor is now a U.S. Supreme Court justice. Just minutes ago, the U.S. Senate voted by 68-31 to confirm one of the nation’s most well-qualified and highly experienced jurists.
Yet I do find it hard to believe that 31 Republican senators voted no. Were they blinded by partisanship or was it a fear of a backlash from the extreme right—a backlash that would be as unpleasant as their attacks on the first Latina nominated, and now confirmed, to the Supreme Court?
Of course, I take pride and satisfaction in seeing a member of a minority group and a woman earn—and I emphasize earn—such a high achievement. Just look at Judge Sotomayor’s long and distinguished legal career and record.
She has worked at almost every level of our judicial system and brings more federal judicial experience to the Supreme Court than any justice in 100 years.
