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Wash. Times' Curl reports that Sotomayor "looked at times as if she were on the verge of tears" during hearing

July 14, 2009 10:46 am ET by Media Matters staff

From Joseph Curl's July 14 Washington Times column:

Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, did not take a clear stand on the balls-and-strikes issue, but did bring up a bitter defeat for his party stretching all the way back to 2001.

"No Republican would have chosen you, judge, that's just the way it is," he said to Judge Sotomayor, who looked at times as if she were on the verge of tears. "We would have picked Miguel Estrada," a Honduran-born judge who was President George W. Bush's nominee for the Court of Appeals and became the first-ever appellate court hopeful blocked by a filibuster.

"He never had a chance to have this hearing," Mr. Graham said before making two stark admissions -- that the nominee would be approved unless she had a "complete meltdown" and that the hearing "is mostly about liberal and conservative politics more than it is about anything else."

Previously:

Fox's Kelly teases report on Sotomayor's "stone face"

Tags: The Washington Times, Joseph Curl, Supreme Court Nominations, Sotomayor Nomination

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    • Author by nerzog (July 14, 2009 10:56 am ET)
         
      Seeing as how she had to bear the brunt of the Republican Bullsh*t Machine, I can see how she may have been a little upset.

      I just hope she rides it out, and doesn't pull a Palin.
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    • Author by seeryer (July 14, 2009 11:05 am ET)
         
      So they would have had Supreme Court hearings for Estrada's appointment to the court of appeals? Thanks Lindsay.
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    • Author by bintx (July 14, 2009 11:51 am ET)
         
      Oh, my gosh! Miguel Estrada did not have a quarter of the qualifications Judge Sotomayor has. I, personally, am tired of courts being populated with political appointees who have NO real judicial experience. The S.Ct. is just FULL of 'em right now.
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