Posted by DNCPress on August 6, 2009 at 01:50 PM
By a vote of 68-31, the Senate has voted to confirm Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. Judge Sotomayor’s outstanding qualifications and inspiring life story won her broad bi-partisan support in the Senate, and from the American people. She will be the Court’s third woman and its first ever Latina.
DNC Chairman Tim Kaine released the statement below following her confirmation.
“Today is a historic day for the American people. With the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court of the United States, the American people will gain a justice with broad legal and judicial experience. Having worked as a big-city prosecutor, corporate litigator, a federal trial judge, and an appellate judge on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Sotomayor brings a keen legal mind, a commitment to the Constitution, and more judicial experience to the high court than anyone confirmed in the last 70 years. Read more »
