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HMM: Sotomayor Enters Confirmation Process with Miers-Like Numbers. ?Sonia Sotomayor will begin he?

By Glenn Reynolds

HMM: Sotomayor Enters Confirmation Process with Miers-Like Numbers. “Sonia Sotomayor will begin her confirmation hearings next week with some of the highest levels of public opposition of any Supreme Court nominee in the last two decades, according to a new poll by the CNN and the Opinion Research Corporation. In fact, only one nominee had a higher level of opposition: Harriet Miers, who was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2005. Miers later withdrew her nomination under questions about her qualifications from both the political left and right.”

But there’s the difference. With Miers, the President’s own party made the biggest stink. The left won’t say a single bad thing about Sotomayor.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on July 10, 2009 (boomark / email).