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Partisan gulf over confirmation widens

Sotomayor is third nominee ever to get more than 20 nays from minority party

Sotomayor is third nominee ever to get more than 20 nays from minority party

Overwhelming Republican opposition to Sonia Sotomayor's U.S. Supreme Court nomination widens a partisan gulf that has lawmakers voting on ideology rather than qualifications. With only nine Republicans, including Missouri Sen. Kit Bond, voting for her, Sotomayor became the third nominee in a row to be opposed by at least half the minority party's senators.


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