Sessions Calls For Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings To Be Pushed Into September

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Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the head Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, just spoke to reporters and said that Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings should be held in September — that is, three months or more from now.

Sessions said that Sotomayor has had 4,000 cases as part of her 17-year record, that this whole record must be held up to review, and the process should not be rushed.

Said Sessions: “We’ve got until October 7, I believe, or the fifth, for the nominee to take office.”

As I’ve previously pointed out, Republican calls for September hearings would take this process well beyond the timeframe that John Roberts and Samuel Alito both had for their confirmations — which by themselves took place under complicated and convoluted circumstances.

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