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Sotomayor Confirmation Vote Today

By Steve Hall

The full Senate is expected to vote on the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor at approximately 3:00 pm (EDT), today; 2:00 pm (CDT.).C-SPAN 2, which cablecasts all Senate floor action, will cover the vote.  If you don't receive C-SPAN 2 through your cable provider, you can watch the webcast.Stuart Taylor has lots of enterprise reporting and aggregating at his Ninth Justice National Journal site; this from a post earlier this morning:The vote will "likely land somewhere between the fairly bipartisan 78-22 vote that confirmed Chief Justice John Roberts in September 2005 and the much more partisan vote of 58-42 that confirmed Justice Samuel Alito in January 2006," The Hill reports. "Democrats split evenly, 22-22, on Roberts, but only four supported Alito and 40 opposed him...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 06, 2009 (boomark / email).