‘Clearing the Path for Sotomayor’s Supreme Court Nomination’

That’s the title of my new Confirmation Tales post.

Here’s how it begins:

Every Supreme Court nomination is shaped by the confirmation battles that preceded it. Several important battles across two decades lie behind Barack Obama’s selection in 2009 of Sonia Sotomayor to be the first Hispanic justice.

And here’s how it ends:

What William Faulkner wrote of “webs spun long before we were born” is true as well of confirmation battles from years ago: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

I think that you will find of interest what’s in the middle.

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