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The numbers are just not there for a Borking unless there is a big skeleton that is just waiting to hop out before the full senate vote. Pretend that the Republicans all vote against, you still need a couple of democrats to come over to the no side. It just isnt going to happen.

She is an activist and her statements and video comments have shown it. You can plainly see that she knows that part of her job is to legislate from the bench.

I really think that this wont be Obama's only Supreme Court appointment. Statistically, there is little the Republicans can do unless he really nominates someone that hits a nerve on both sides.

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Nominated!

Senate confirms Judge Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination, 68-31, making her the first Hispanic on the high court. Ref. CNN

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National Pro-Life Group: Sonia Sotomayor Will Back Abortion on Supreme Court

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Should the Senate confirm appeals court Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, they will be adding another abortion advocate to its ranks. That's the gist of a new letter the National Right to Life Committee sent members of the Senate in an attempt to defeat her nomination. Yesterday, Sotomayor received a 13-6 vote from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of her nomination to replace retiring pro-abortion Justice David Souter. With a vote in the full Senate expected as early as next week, NRLC wants senators to know the kind of nominee they will be considering and the potential ramifications of adding her to the Supreme Court. The National Right to Life letter acknowledges that "Sotomayor has encountered little in the way of abortion-related litigation, either at the district court or the court of appeals" during her tenure as a judge. "Yet, there are many troubling indications that Ms. Sotomayor believes that it is the proper role of the U.S. Supreme Court to construct and enforce constitutional doctrines on social policy questions," the letter explains. NRLC notes that Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision in 1973 that allowed virtually unlimited abortions, "was imposed by seven Supreme Court justices" in "an exercise in judicial legislation." "The evidence indicates that Ms. Sotomayor approves of the Roe ruling and approves of the type of judicial activism that produced it," the letter says. Ref. Source 1

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Well she was sworn in today and now it is up to her on how she is going to make herself look while on the bench. I hope she does a good job.