Sotamayor approved by Committee..One step closer to gunrights battle

**PocketProtector** · July 28th, 2009, 12:37 PM

My money's on Sessions...time will tell

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009...est=latestnews

Judiciary Committee Approves Sotomayor for Supreme Court
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.

AP

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor answers questions during her confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill July 16. (Reuters Photo)

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor answers questions during her confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill July 16. (Reuters Photo)

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.

**dc dalton** · July 28th, 2009, 12:56 PM

Actually it won't make one bit of difference, she is a liberal replacing a liberal.... court make up will go basically the same as it is

**Yellowfin** · July 28th, 2009, 01:07 PM

Originally Posted by dc dalton

Actually it won't make one bit of difference, she is a liberal replacing a liberal.... court make up will go basically the same as it is

The problem is it's a younger communist replacing an older one that could have died off and been replaced by someone on our side. Now we'd be losing 10-30 years of time we could have better spent with one less enemy on the court.

**ChamberedRound** · July 28th, 2009, 01:09 PM

Originally Posted by dc dalton

Actually it won't make one bit of difference, she is a liberal replacing a liberal.... court make up will go basically the same as it is

Originally Posted by Yellowfin

The problem is it's a younger communist replacing an older one that could have died off and been replaced by someone on our side. Now we'd be losing 10-30 years of time we could have better spent with one less enemy on the court.

And IMHO she's even more radical than Souter. She's even less likely to move toward center on ANYTHING.