I’m eager to review the transcript of Senator Graham’s questioning of Judge Sotomayor, as there were some interesting exchanges. Among other things, Graham tried to probe Sotomayor’s actions as a board member of PRLDEF and the hard-Left legal positions that PRLDEF took during her 12-year tenure. Sotomayor, evidently trying to distance herself from those positions, stated that fundraising was the primary responsibility of board members. But the New York Times has reported:

[PRLDEF’s litigation] efforts were backed by the defense fund’s board of directors, an active and passionate group that included a young lawyer named Sonia Sotomayor….

The board monitored all litigation undertaken by the fund’s lawyers, and a number of those lawyers said Ms. Sotomayor was an involved and ardent supporter of their various legal efforts during her time with the group.…

Beyond being a board member, Sotomayor was at various times a member of PRLDEF’s litigation committee and chair of the committee.

In her exchange with Graham, Sotomayor also offered glimpses of her expansive reading of the Constitution.