Sotomayor confirmation hearings, which will start

Sonia Sotomayor joined in the historic hearings for his nomination to the Supreme Court due to the fact that confidence in the outcome - the votes of Democrats in the Senate, said he, and the court in the third and the first Spanish woman justice.

Begin hearings Monday on the Senate Judiciary Committee will open the College Republicans and 12 Democrats, 7, and Sotomayor, the same statement that it is expected to rise to the need to emphasize poverty in New York City.

Said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt, and the Chairman of the Committee, is scheduled to begin the work of the comments praise Sotomayor is also seeking to establish strong, because the judge followed the law to which it leads.

"The truth is that there is no need to guess what would be justice, as we have seen how the judge is confident that all Americans, and the judge of all Americans and the Americans, on the basis of justice," said Leahy, the same extracts that the insured, and the Associated Press.

Sotomayor pending a hearing on Tuesday.

Nearly seven weeks since President Sotomayor candidate Barack Obama to replace Justice David Souter, and critics, and there is a lot of work to succeed in taking advantage of weaknesses in the record. Republican senators should also be careful to avoid offending Hispanic voters, the fastest growing of the voters by attacking Sotomayor is very difficult.

Said Sen. John Cornyn, R, Texas, highlighted the potential risks, the policy of the Republicans, who said that "Fox News Sunday" that his country was in the third set, consisting of Hispanic, and that Judge Sotomayor I only.

Signale after the Republicans to put pressure on the (55 years) and the New Yorker veteran federal judge to explain the decisions of previous complaints of discrimination and gun rights, and notes that they say raise doubts about the ability to judge cases fairly Sotomayor.

Sharp comments on the O got so far. Sunday. Jeff courses of Alabama, the senior Republican on the Committee.

Sotomayor said a few words over the past 10 years that the impact of decisions on personal experience "courses.

He added, "and criticized the idea that men and women to reach the same result. It hopes to achieve different results. I think it calmly with the American system," CBS said the courses' "Face the Nation."

Sotomayor Leahy received since 17 years of the Federal Register because of the mainstream. "

Said Sen. Charles Schumer, DN.Y. Sotomayor, who introduced that body is expected to win Republican support and a large Sotomayor more than 78 votes from the Democrats, and 22, including the confirmation of John Roberts was the President of the Supreme Court, and the bin in 2005. 58 Senate Democrats and 40 Republicans and independents, who are usually Democrats.

Obama called Sunday Sotomayor I wish him well in the hearings, have the courtesy call, and 89 senators expressed confidence in winning the approval of the Senate and the White House. "

Appears to be fertile ground for the public that the Republican race, ethnicity, and focused on Sotomayor, "a wise man in America" remarks, and eggs from the firefighters of New Haven (Connecticut, who won in the Supreme Court in the case last month.

In a speech in 2001 - Sotomayor said he hoped "wisdom" to reach the right conclusions in Latin, often as a white man, and the experience of life itself.

5-4 vote last month, the Supreme Court agreed with the firefighters who claimed they were denied promotions in New Haven after the race officials gave the test results, because very few minorities in the well. The Court reversed the decision of Sotomayor and two judges of the Federal Court of Appeal.

Issues may allow for the Republicans in an attempt to create the impression that Sotomayor of "political prisoners, and the identity of the University of Cambridge, said David Garrow, the keen observer.