McConnell to oppose Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor
By Julie Hirschfeld Davis, APFriday, July 17, 2009
Top Senate Republican to oppose Sotomayor
WASHINGTON — The Senate’s top Republican will vote against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.
A senior aide says Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell plans to announce his opposition to President Barack Obama’s high court nominee on Monday.
He says her statements show an alarming lack of respect for the notion of equal justice, and that he’s worried she’d let her sympathies and prejudices interfere with her decisions as a justice.
McConnell is weighing in as Sotomayor starts to win GOP supporters after a smooth performance at her confirmation hearings. Sens. Richard Lugar of Indiana, Mel Martinez of Florida and Olympia Snowe of Maine all announced Friday they would vote for Sotomayor.
She’s expected to be confirmed easily.
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