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$\"Sotomayor.jpg\"$ <\/span>The news media is obsessed now with Sonia Sotomayor. The newsfolks, ever out to gain some attention, are interviewing, or trying to set up, Republicans who will be involved in the process of approving her for the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

Many of us tire of the tediousness of nitpicking her every move and then approving her anyway. <\/p>\n

The events surrounding the Sotomayor case remind me that this politicization of Supreme Court nominations got its big media boost with Joe Biden in the Clarence Thomas nomination.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The news media is obsessed now with Sonia Sotomayor. The newsfolks, ever out to gain some attention, are interviewing, or trying to set up, Republicans who will be involved in the process of approving her for the Supreme Court. Many of us tire of the tediousness of nitpicking her every move and then approving her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1732],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-issues"],"yoast_head":"\nSotomayor Heats Up<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The news media is obsessed now with Sonia Sotomayor. 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