Sonia Sotomayor Grilled By Senators

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July 13. 2009

President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, judge Sonia Sotomayor, was grilled in Congress today. She was asked a barrage of questions regarding her rulings and views.

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WASHINGTON — In her opening effort to blunt Republican criticism that her rulings would be slanted by her background or ethnic sympathies, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor pledged "fidelity to the law" Monday and said she would interpret the Constitution by its terms.

For nearly four hours during senators' opening remarks, Sotomayor sat quietly at the witness table. She did not betray her thoughts as one Republican senator after another sought to cast her as a justice who would go beyond the bounds of the law and decide cases based on personal interest.

When it was her turn, she used her 10 minutes to remind the senators before her and the audience watching on national television of her improbable rise from the Bronx, as well as her view that "the task of a judge is not to make the law — it is to apply the law."...

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