McConnell to Vote Against Sotomayor
With the growing number of Republican Senators saying they’ll vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor -- Dick Lugar of Indiana, Mel Martinez of Florida
Jul 31, 202077.7K Shares1M Views
With the growing number of Republican Senators saying they’ll vote forSupreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor — Dick Lugar of Indiana, Mel Martinez of Florida and Olympia Snowe of Maine are the latest— Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell is apparently feeling compelled to come out strongly against her.
A senior aide today told the Associated Pressthat McConnell plans to announce his opposition to her confirmation on Monday.
McConnell’s aide reportedly said that Sotomayor’s “statements show an alarming lack of respect for the notion of equal justice, and that he’s worried she’d let her sympathies and prejudices interfere with her decisions as a justice.”
Update:McConnell has sent out a statement including excerpts of his remarks he’ll deliver about Sotomayor on Monday. Here’s one:
“„Judge Sotomayor’s record of written statements suggest an alarming lack of respect for the notion of equal justice, and therefore, in my view, an insufficient willingness to abide by the judicial oath. This is particularly important when considering someone for the Supreme Court since, if she were confirmed, there would be no higher court to deter or prevent her from injecting into the law the various disconcerting principles that recur throughout her public statements. For that reason, I will oppose her nomination.
The rest of his remarks are here.
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