Date Set For Confirmation Hearings Of SCOTUS Nominee

Alabama Jeff Sessions Senator Patrick Leahy says confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor will convene on July 13. Republicans including Alabama;'s jeff Sessions are upset saying they need more time to review her record.

by The Associated Press

Published: Tue, June 09, 2009 - 6:27 pm CST

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick
Leahy says confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia
Sotomayor will convene on July 13.

Leahy said the date presents a "reasonable schedule" that
would give members of the committee several more weeks to prepare.

President Barack Obama has urged the Senate to vote on
confirming Sotomayor to the high court before it leaves for a
congressional recess in August.

Senate Republicans are protesting the Democrats' decision, saying they need more time to
review Sotomayor's record.

Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the top Republican on the Judiciary
Committee, says the date is too early and unrealistic. GOP Leader
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is accusing Democrats of using
"heavy-handed" tactics. He says their actions threaten the
cooperation the Senate runs on.

Leahy announced the timetable Tuesday without giving Republicans notice
he was doing so after private negotiations with Sessions yielded no
bipartisan agreement on a date.

Leahy said there was "no reason to unduly delay
consideration of this well-qualified nominee. She deserves the
opportunity to go before the public and speak of her record." The
Vermont Democrat said that as a judge, she will only be able to
speak publicly about her record when the hearings convene.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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FastFred Says:

Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 8:08 pm

Sotomayor is a member of the National Council of La Raza, “a group that’s promoted driver’s licenses for illegal aliens, amnesty programs, and no immigration law enforcement by local and state police,” according to WorldNet Daily.

FastFred Says:

Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:04 pm

Just another brief note…In video clips dating back 25 years, and now provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sotomayor, according to the Times, even calls herself an “affirmative action product.” “The clips include lengthy remarks about her experiences as an ‘affirmative action baby,’ whose lower test scores were overlooked by admissions committees at Princeton University and Yale Law School because, she said, she is Hispanic and had grown up in poor circumstance.” “If we had gone through the traditional numbers route of those institutions,” says Sotomayor, “it would have been highly questionable if I would have been accepted. ... My test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates.”