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Article: Supreme Court nomination unlikely to be blocked
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- May 28, 2009
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REPUBLICANS are unlikely to block President Barack Obama's
nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the supreme court with a
filibuster, the party's top member of the senate judiciary committee
said yesterday.
Alabama's Jeff Sessions said that Ms Sotomayor's legal philosophy
required close examination but he did not foresee Republicans using
procedural rules to prevent a vote on her nomination.
"The nominee has serious problems. But I would think that we
would all have a good hearing, take our time, and do it right," Mr
Mr Sessions said. "And then the senators cast their vote up or down
based on whether or not they think this is the kind of judge that