CNN Poll: Conservative Attacks on Sotomayor Are Working

The new CNN poll on Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court seems to confirm the Democratic angst that moved the hearings to next week, after Republicans had asked for months of preparation. Only 47 percent of Americans support the nomination outright; 40 percent oppose it. Just as ominous More…

Another Study of Her Opinions Finds Sotomayor Is No Activist

The Congressional Research Service has issued a report analyzing the opinions of Judge Sonia Sotomayor and concluded, just as previous studies of her opinions have, that she is anything but a judicial activist.

Notwithstanding her much-decried “wise Latina woman” claim, it turns out Sotomayor is no liberal More…