Gun Rights Advocates Hope to Flip Red-State Dems on Sotomayor

For Republicans and many movement conservatives, the key moment of the first day of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings was not the blistering opening statement of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee who bulldozed through the most controversial parts of her record. It was the jokey, resigned statement of Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.), who regretted that President Barack Obama had given the ... Full Story »

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by Derek Hawkins - Jul. 14, 2009

The problem for the more ambitious opponents of Sotomayor is that their political leverage against Democrats is limited, differing from state to state, and in no case more powerful than the leverage exerted by Democrats. And political strategists in the states with targeted Democratic senators are skeptial that a “yes” vote on a Supreme Court nominee could become an election-swinging issue.

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