{"id":5079,"date":"2009-06-03T12:18:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T12:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2009\/06\/sotomayor-heats-up.html"},"modified":"2009-06-03T12:18:52","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T12:18:52","slug":"sotomayor-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2009\/06\/sotomayor-heats-up.html","title":{"rendered":"Sotomayor Heats Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sotomayor.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/120\/import\/imgs\/Sotomayor.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt;float: left\" height=\"302\" width=\"302\" \/><\/span>The news media is obsessed now with Sonia Sotomayor. The newsfolks, ever out to gain some attention, are interviewing, or trying to set up, Republicans who will be involved in the process of approving her for the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Many of us tire of the tediousness of nitpicking her every move and then approving her anyway. <\/p>\n<p>The events surrounding the Sotomayor case remind me that this politicization of Supreme Court nominations got its big media boost with Joe Biden in the Clarence Thomas nomination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news media is obsessed now with Sonia Sotomayor. The newsfolks, ever out to gain some attention, are interviewing, or trying to set up, Republicans who will be involved in the process of approving her for the Supreme Court. Many of us tire of the tediousness of nitpicking her every move and then approving her&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-issues"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sotomayor Heats Up - Jesus Creed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2009\/06\/sotomayor-heats-up.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sotomayor Heats Up - Jesus Creed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The news media is obsessed now with Sonia Sotomayor. 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