1.0 link 207739 <![CDATA[Leahy Rips GOP For Blocking Sotomayor -- In 1998 (VIDEO)]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/26/leahy-rips-gop-for-blocki_n_207739.html The conservative effort to keep Sonia Sotomayor off the U.S. Supreme Court is more than a decade old.

Sen. Patrick Leahy, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, ripped Senate Republicans for blocking Sonia Sotomayor's nomination back in 1998, when President Bill Clinton promoted her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

"Judge Sonia Sotomayor is just such a qualified nominee, and she is one being held up by the Republican majority, apparently because some on the other side...

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