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Judiciary Committee Approves Sotomayor

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(AP) – The 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, joined Democrats in the vote.

The panel's chairman, Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy, called Sotomayor a restrained, fair, and impartial judge who has not favored any one group of people over another. But the top Republican, Alabama's Jeff Sessions, said her speeches and some rulings revealed beliefs that conflict with the idea of blind justice and fidelity to the law.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy talks with Jon Kyl during the committee's markup vote on the nomination of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, July 28, 2009, on Capitol Hill.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy talks with Jon Kyl during the committee's markup vote on the nomination of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, July 28, 2009, on Capitol Hill.   (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, speaks during the committee's markup vote on the nomination of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, July 28, 2009, on Capitol Hill.
Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, speaks during the committee's markup vote on the nomination of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, July 28, 2009, on Capitol Hill.   (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans, John Cornyn, Lindsey Graham, Jon Kyl, and Chuck Grassley, participate in the committee's markup vote on the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, July 28, 2009.
Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans, John Cornyn, Lindsey Graham, Jon Kyl, and Chuck Grassley, participate in the committee's markup vote on the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, July 28, 2009.   (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Sonia Sotomayor, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the fourth day of her confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill, July 16, 2009.
Sonia Sotomayor, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the fourth day of her confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill, July 16, 2009.   (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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