Sotomayor OK'd for Supreme Court in historic vote, page 1
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Topic started on 6-8-2009 @ 10:38 PM by whaaa
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WASHINGTON - Sonia Sotomayor won confirmation Thursday as the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, a history-making Senate vote that capped a summer-long debate heavy with ethnic politics and hints of high court fights to come.

The third woman in court history, she'll be sworn in Saturday as the 111th justice and the first nominated by a Democrat in 15 years.

The Senate vote was 68-31 to confirm Sotomayor, President Barack Obama's first Supreme Court nominee, with Democrats unanimously behind her but most Republicans lining up in a show of opposition both for her and for the president's standards for a justice.



The whole dynamic of the SC could now change with more old justices ready to retire or die. Obama could stack the SC with even more Liberal judges; a definite change from the GOP dominated years with the conservative leanings.
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