Senate panel's vote goes 13-6 for Sotomayor
GOP displays its opposition but seems unlikely to prevail
Posted: July 29, 2009 at 4:33 a.m.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt, right, gavels a recess as the committee's ranking Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., sits at left, after the committee approved the nomination of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday approved Judge Sonia Sotomayor to be the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, over nearly solid Republican opposition.
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