{"id":725,"date":"2009-07-28T13:16:27","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T13:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/07\/sonia-sotomayor-confirmed-to-the-supreme-court.html"},"modified":"2009-07-28T13:16:27","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T13:16:27","slug":"sonia-sotomayor-confirmed-to-the-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/07\/sonia-sotomayor-confirmed-to-the-supreme-court.html","title":{"rendered":"Sonia Sotomayor Confirmation Set for the Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate panel indeed voted to recommend to have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/pagelayout\/legislative\/one_item_and_teasers\/nom_confc.htm\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sonia_Sotomayor\">Sonia Sotomayor confirmed<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/29\/us\/politics\/29confirm.html?hp\">panel voted <\/a>13-6 in favor of her. <a href=\"http:\/\/lgraham.senate.gov\/public\/\">Lindsey Graham<\/a>&nbsp; of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=south+carolina\">South Carolina<\/a> was the only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Republican-Noise-Machine-Right-Wing-Democracy\/dp\/1400048753\">Republican<\/a> to vote yes. Ah, Republicans are so negative these days. Cheer up, fellas. Now it goes to the full Senate for an overwhelmingly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/nation\/1670985,CST-NWS-soto17.article\">likely confirmation<\/a>. Personally, apologies to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/examiner\/x-4107-Gay--Lesbian-Issues-Examiner%7Ey2009m7d16-Pat-Buchanan-White-people-deserve-more-video\">Pat Buchanan<\/a>, but we need more of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/charles-h-green\/sotomayor-was-right-the-f_b_245216.html\">wise latina<\/a> perspective, no matter who built this country. Thoughts?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/sonia_sotomayor.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sonia_sotomayor.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/124\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/05\/sonia_sotomayor-thumb-368x500-5286.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-none\" height=\"500\" width=\"368\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate panel indeed voted to recommend to have Sonia Sotomayor confirmed. The panel voted 13-6 in favor of her. Lindsey Graham&nbsp; of South Carolina was the only Republican to vote yes. Ah, Republicans are so negative these days. Cheer up, fellas. Now it goes to the full Senate for an overwhelmingly likely confirmation. Personally,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interdependent-activism-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sonia Sotomayor Confirmation Set for the Supreme Court - One City<\/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\/onecity\/2009\/07\/sonia-sotomayor-confirmed-to-the-supreme-court.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sonia Sotomayor Confirmation Set for the Supreme Court - One City\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Senate panel indeed voted to recommend to have Sonia Sotomayor confirmed. 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