Senate vote confirms Sotomayor as justice
Posted: August 7, 2009 at 5:14 a.m.
Judge Sonia Sotomayor leaves the federal courthouse in Manhattan where she and supporters watched the televised Senate confirmation of her as the newest member of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Sonia Sotomayor won confirmation Thursday as the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice in a history-making Senate vote that capped a summer-long debate. She'll be sworn in Saturday as the court's 111th justice, third woman and first nominee by a Democrat in 15 years.
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