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Sotomayor Vote Delayed Until July 28
The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation to the Supreme Court on July 28, a week from today. The vote was originally scheduled for today, but Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) granted a delay request made by Republicans.
Leahy reportedly said he was disappointed in the stall, but still expects her to be on the bench for the Supreme Court's fall session. Sen. Jeff Sessions, the committee's ranking Republican, said he expects Sotomayor to be confirmed by early August.
In other news, Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine has announced she will vote for Sotomayor's confirmation. She is the fourth Republican to do so, after Olympia Snowe, Richard Lugar and Mel Martinez.
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Sessions' delay is poor tactics. It will leave more dead time out there for more Republican senators, one by one, to announce their support for Sotomayor's nomination, and give the impression that confirmation was inevitable, that delay was futile, and that more reflection leads to more support. It thus puts pressure on wingnuts to come out against her in response, and since most of the wind has gone out of the arguments against Sotomayor, the nays will have a more purely partisan, and more desperate, aroma.
July 21, 2009 12:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
More partisan, more desperate, leading to the greater cementing of the perception of Republicans as old white angry men.
Excellent strategy, Sessions!
July 21, 2009 12:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sessions needs to delay since he has to get a new special hood made.
July 21, 2009 12:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Beauregard should be held in low regard.
July 21, 2009 1:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm absolutely certain Leahy knows what "Go fuck yourself means."
If he can't say it now, then when?
You can't have comity with junkyard dogs.
July 21, 2009 1:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good. Sotomayor will be on the Court for the Fall, and stopping these Senators from working on it for a week will give them time to consider health care reform at this crucial time for that policy to finally be implemented.
July 21, 2009 1:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Isn't this just to build up Sessions street cred with his base of bitter white men?
July 21, 2009 1:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Delay and "no." That is all they have.
July 21, 2009 2:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm sure Senator Leahy has a strongly worded letter in his dry powder closet.
July 21, 2009 3:09 PM | Reply | Permalink