WaPo: Sotomayor Has Experience With Tough Confirmations The Washington Post looks back at Sonia Sotomayor’s 1997 confirmation hearings to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which was a contentious process due to rumors that she could later be nominated for the Supreme Court. Sotomayor performed strongly, the Post says, though interestingly enough there was a tense exchange with Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) — now the head Republican on the Judiciary Committee — over an apology she gave to a convicted defendant who was given a mandatory five-year sentence.
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