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Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court Justice
by Mark Silva
The Senate Judiciary Committee is a day away from voting to recommend the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, poised to become the first Hispanic member of the U.S. Supreme Court. Sotomayor is a week away from a seat on the court.
The committee's ranking Republican won't be in the majority.
Sen. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (R-Ala.) announced today that he will oppose President Obama's nomination of Sotomayor.
"I don't believe that Judge Sotomayor has the deep-rooted convictions necessary to resist the siren call of judicial activism," Sessions explained in an Op-ed essay in USA Today this morning. "She has evoked its mantra too often....
"As someone who cares about great heritage of law, I must withhold my consent,'' said Sessions, a former U.S. attorney in Alabama who was nominated for a federal judgeship in 1985 but blocked by liberals accusing him of "gross insensitivity'' in racial matters.
Sessions is the the fourth Republican committee member expected to line up against Sotomayor. The others are Sens. John Cornyn of Texas, Jon Kyl of Arizona and Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah. Sen. Lindsey Graham, (R-S.C.) plans to support her.
The committee will take up the matter Tuesday morning, and should send Sotomayor's seating on to the Senate with an overwhelming vote. The committee has 12 Democrats and seven Republicans. The full Senate should vote next week.
Five Republicans have voiced support for Sotomayor -- Graham, Richard Lugar of Indiana, Olympia Snowe of Maine, Susan Collins of Maine and Mel Martinez of Florida.
Sessions, while conceding today that Sotomayor "will likely be confirmed," warned that "supporters of liberal judicial philosophy might find it a Pyrrhic victory." Although she "renounced the pillars of activist thinking" in her four days of testimony earlier this month, Sessions said, she seemed disingenuous.
"Which Sotomayor will we get?" Sessions asked, citing three rulings of the federal jurist from New York on private property rights, affirmative action and the right to bear arms. "Each was contrary to the Constitution," Sessions said. "Each was decided in a brief opinion, short on analysis. And each was consistent with liberal political thought."
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