Ethics

Sessions to Vote No on Sotomayor, Film at 11

By Ed Brayton

This line from CNN cracked me up:

The ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee announced Monday that he will not vote to confirm Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court.

In an op-ed published in Monday's USA Today, Sessions concedes that Sotomayor "will likely be confirmed." But the Alabama Republican says that "as someone who cares deeply about our great heritage of law, I must withhold my consent."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on July 30, 2009 (boomark / email).