Republicans, Democrats at odds in Sotomayor debate

San Francisco Chronicle by Julie Hirschfeld Davis | Aug. 3, 2009 (News Report)

Senate Republicans are lining up to criticize Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor as unfit for the bench while Democrats offer effusive praise of the judge whose confirmation this week as the first Hispanic justice is all but assured.

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 by Chris Finnie - Aug. 5, 2009

This wins my prize for the "duh" headline and lede of the week. Nothing new in it, so it hardly qualifies as news. I fail to see why AP bothered.

Surely there's something else going on in the world that AP could cover instead of repeating the same talking points over and over again.

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