Ala. Sen. Jeff Sessions reaches decision on Sotomayor, but not ready to make choice public

Ala. senator mum on his decision about Sotomayor

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee says he has made up his mind on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, but he’s not ready to make his decision public.

Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama said before the Tennessee Republican Party’s annual fundraiser on Saturday that he expects the vote on Democratic President Barack Obama’s nominee to take place Tuesday.

Session says he remains “very troubled by her responses” at confirmation hearings.

He also praises his Republican colleagues on the panel, saying they “had to raise difficult issues, and at the same time do it in a way that was not unfair to the nominee.”

Two of Sessions’ Republican colleagues on the Judiciary Committee, John Cornyn of Texas and Orrin Hatch of Utah, have said they will vote against Sotomayor.