Lindsey Graham: Sotomayor Could Get My Vote

Miami Herald:

The nation's lawyers and law enforcement leaders gave Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor ringing endorsements Tuesday, even as Republicans tried to rally opposition.

With Sotomayor's Senate confirmation hearing less than a week away, the American Bar Association announced that the 54-year-old appellate judge is ''well qualified'' to serve on the nation's highest court. The unanimous recommendation is the association's highest grade for a potential judge.

''The only way she can get derailed is if she performs poorly next week,'' acknowledged Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a Senate Judiciary Committee member. He said he was still undecided, but added, ``I honestly think I could vote for her.''

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Comments

[springsm]

12:53 AM on 07/09/2009

Oh sweet cheeks, I have been waiting with hesitant breath waiting for your "maybe". Now I can take a deep breath...in and out, in and out.

[dimplesmile7]

05:43 PM on 07/08/2009

Ok, Lindsey girl!

[JailNeoconVicts]

04:44 PM on 07/08/2009

It all depends on whether he's feeling Fabulous or Fierce that day!

[learntofly]

04:33 PM on 07/08/2009

But Lindsey refused to take a stand against the Luv Guv's dereliction of duty. Self-serving hypocrite.

[Rickfors]

04:10 PM on 07/08/2009

They'll be best girlfriends.

[taddles]

04:04 PM on 07/08/2009

Who do we have to attack to start the Rapture so these morans will get picked up on the Jebus bus?

[JanineMarie]

04:00 PM on 07/08/2009

When is he going to come out of the closet???

[Coastalthinker2]

03:57 PM on 07/08/2009

Lindsey Graham has probably realized that having Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor on the Supreme Court is in his best interests. In spite of the republican rhetoric, this is a judge who is moderate to moderate - right.

This should really be a MAJOR issue for any progressive - liberal. Read this article about our current Supreme Court.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/07/06-0

Read about her ruling from just this May against GM employees:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/15/sotomayor-ruled-against-g_n_215866.html

She upheld the former President George W. Bush's Mexico City Policy:
"Mexico City Policy"1 of the United States government, whereby foreign non-governmental organizations ("NGOs") receiving U.S. government funds must agree to a provision called the "Standard Clause," which prohibits the organizations from engaging in activities that promote abortion (also referred to as the "challenged restrictions").
http://openjurist.org/304/f3d/183/center-for-reproductive-law-and-policy-v-w-bush

This doesn't begin to even look at her "corporate personhood" beliefs.

At a time when the Supreme Court is taking away citizens rights and giving corporations rights in an astonishing manner, we are putting a "moderate - right" judge on the Supreme Court. Is anyone else concerned about this?

[HowietheScreamer]

03:42 PM on 07/08/2009

In the end it doesn't matter. She will be confirmed, and by a pretty sizable majority. The Repubes are just continuing to be obstructionist, and they will continue to do so as much as possible.

[regellner]

03:37 PM on 07/08/2009

Sotomayor should be nominated without too much trouble. There will be some in the GOP that will not let go, but there are a few that actually have common sense.

In relation to the Sotomayor nomination, I have the following links of interest:

http://www.examiner.com/x-11326-Charlotte-Liberal-Examiner~y2009m5d26-Sotomayor-selected-as-Supreme-Court-nominee-partisan-battle-lines-drawn-in-Senate

http://www.examiner.com/x-11326-Charlotte-Liberal-Examiner~y2009m5d26-Empathy-is-positive-to-the-Sotomayor-Supreme-Court-selection


Raymond Gellner – National Liberal Examiner at Examiner.com
http://www.examiner.com/x-11326-Liberal-Examiner
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[ajf67]

03:33 PM on 07/08/2009

What's funny is that i"m sure he and other GOPers who vote for her will use that vote as "evidence" that they are being bi-partisan. The real reason he is willing to vote for her is that his side has put up such a pathetic opposition to her that he might as well.

[serindipity803]

03:33 PM on 07/08/2009

Graham said this before and then voted with his Rethug colleagues...he has several lines; this is just one of them-all his lines are tired and true to his form.

[DoTheMath]

03:27 PM on 07/08/2009

Graham is not really a "top Sotomayor critic," as the lead in to this piece suggests. Actually his shtick is that he will vote to confirm her if everyone agrees that then-Senator Obama and other Democratic senators were wrong to vote against confirming Roberts and Alito.

[E NUFF]

03:26 PM on 07/08/2009

Awwwww . . . that's mighty wh!ite of you!

[rubygreen]

03:22 PM on 07/08/2009

Miss Lindsey will probably change her mind tommorrow - it is, after all, a woman's perogative!