Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor appears headed to a speedy confirmation after her last day of questioning on Capitol Hill. On Thursday, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Jeff Sessions, said he won’t try to filibuster a vote on Sotomayor’s nomination. During her closing remarks, Sotomayor said her judicial record in untainted by personal views.
Judge Sonia Sotomayor: “I would tell them to look at my decisions for seventeen years and note that in everyone of them I have done what I say that I so firmly believe in: I prove my fidelity to the law, the fact that I do not permit personal views, sympathies or prejudices to influence the outcome of cases.”
A full Senate vote on Sotomayor’s nomination is expected to come early next month.