Congratulations, Judge Justice Sotomayor!
The NYT (Reuters, actually) reports Judge Sotomayor was confirmed by the full Senate with a vote of 68-31. The NYT's Caucus blog has more.
The NYT notes that Sotomayor is the third woman ever to be elevated to the US Supreme Court, the first "Hispanic" (guess they didn't want to make the Latino/Latiina call), and the first wise person in at least a decade. Okay, well, two out of three of those, at least.
No Democrats voted against her and nine dead men walking Republicans voted for her. Via TPM, here's the list:
Lamar Alexander (TN), Kit Bond (MO), Susan Collins (ME), Lindsey Graham (SC), Judd Gregg (NH), Richard Lugar (IN), Mel Martinez (FL), Olympia Snowe (ME) and George Voinovich (OH).
At least some of these nine are already known to be retiring, so we'll salute their parting gestures rather than their courage.
But anyway ...
¡Si, se puede!
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1 comment:
¡Sí, sí, claro que se puede!
I'm just showing support for your burst of Spanish language... :)
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