At the opening statements this morning of the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings, Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) told the Supreme Court nominee “unless you have a complete meltdown, you’re going to get confirmed. And I don’t think you will.”
Graham’s statements differ from other Republicans’ opening statements, in which they attacked Sotomayor for alleged bias in the areas of ethnicity and gender – notably, Sens. Kyl, Grassley, and Coburn discussed this.
The senator from South Carolina also brought up twice that President Obama won the election in November, and that such “elections matter,” rounding out his optimistic opening statement for Judge Sotomayor.
