Read more Senate confirmation hearings stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/10744/senate-confirmation-hearings.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 5:33:48 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/67935/enough-already-kennedy-was-no-hero.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagYou wouldn’t know it from the tearful plaudits in the "echo chamber of the mainstream media," but Ted Kennedy was no hero, Howie Carr writes for the Boston Herald . Kennedy was actually a ruthless partisan—he accused Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork of wanting "segregated lunch counters”—and lived a...http://www.newser.com/story/67935/enough-already-kennedy-was-no-hero.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 27 Aug 2009 11:56:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66310/supreme-newbie-faces-steep-learning-curve.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJustices past and present say no amount of experience can prepare someone for the role Sonia Sotomayor is walking into, the New York Times reports. "I was frightened to death for the first three years," Justice Bremer, who joined the court in 1994, once admitted. As the court's newest justice,...http://www.newser.com/story/66310/supreme-newbie-faces-steep-learning-curve.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 07 Aug 2009 6:57:27 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66291/senate-confirms-sotomayor.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Senate confirmed Sonia Sotomayor today as the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court. The vote was 68-31 for Sotomayor, President Barack Obama's first high court nominee. She becomes the 111th justice and just the third woman to serve. Democrats praised the 55-year-old Sotomayor as a mainstream moderate. But...http://www.newser.com/story/66291/senate-confirms-sotomayor.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 06 Aug 2009 14:36:36 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66009/mccain-will-vote-against-sotomayor.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJohn McCain says he'll oppose Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor when the Senate votes on her confirmation this week. Despite Sotomayor's efforts to distance herself from her record, the Arizona Republican said today, Sotomayor is a judicial activist who has used her position as a judge to try to change...http://www.newser.com/story/66009/mccain-will-vote-against-sotomayor.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 03 Aug 2009 15:57:09 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65516/gop-looks-tacky-in-vote-on-sotomayor.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSenate Republicans locked arms against Sonia Sotomayor yesterday … or would have, if they’d bothered to stay for the Judiciary Committee’s vote. Instead, half ducked out, leaving Jeff Sessions to repeat “No by proxy,” over and over, writes Dana Milbank in the Washington Post . It was an ugly display of...http://www.newser.com/story/65516/gop-looks-tacky-in-vote-on-sotomayor.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 29 Jul 2009 8:56:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65489/judiciary-committee-approves-sotomayor.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Senate Judiciary Committee has voted to approve Sonia Sotomayor to be the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court. The committee voted 13-6 this morning to send Sotomayor's nomination to the full Senate, where she's expected to be confirmed easily next week. Just one Republican, South Carolina's Lindsey Graham,...http://www.newser.com/story/65489/judiciary-committee-approves-sotomayor.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 28 Jul 2009 11:09:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65217/graham-blasts-gops-blind-ideology.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagLindsey Graham’s been on the Republican hot seat since throwing his support behind Sonia Sotomayor, but he doesn’t think much of the purity police attacking him. “I have no desire to be up here in an irrelevant status,” the senior senator from South Carolina tells Politico. “If we chase this...http://www.newser.com/story/65217/graham-blasts-gops-blind-ideology.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 24 Jul 2009 9:33:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64939/gop-delays-sotomayor-vote.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Senate Judiciary Committee today put off its vote on Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination for one week, to July 28, after Republicans asked for a delay. Chairman Patrick Leahy says he is disappointed the Republicans held up the committee's action, but predicts Sotomayor will join the Supreme Court in...http://www.newser.com/story/64939/gop-delays-sotomayor-vote.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 21 Jul 2009 10:55:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64500/these-hearings-are-all-about-the-next-nominee.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThree days, no bombshells: Sonia Sotomayor is a done deal for the Supreme Court. The humdrum proceedings still have value, however, write Peter Baker and Charlie Savage in the New York Times . It's all about the next nominee, and that could be a much bigger fight. If nothing else, Republicans...http://www.newser.com/story/64500/these-hearings-are-all-about-the-next-nominee.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 15 Jul 2009 21:52:05 CDT