A Vermont Democrat Predicts Her Party’s Moderates May Block Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court Nomination
05/29/2009
From: Elizabeth Harris
Re: James Fulford’s Blog: Sotomayor As Substitute For Amnesty
Whoa, Nellie! Sonia Sotomayor is a long way from confirmed.
I count at least twelve often-moderate Democrats who may vote against Sotomayor because of her liberal immigration position, her opposition to Second Amendment rights or both.
They are:
- Max Baucus, (MT)
- Mary Landrieu, (LA)
- Jon Tester, (MT)
- Claire McCaskill, (MO)
- Byron Dorgan, (ND)
- Mark Pyror, (AR)
- John Rockefeller, (WV)
- Ben Nelson, (NE)
- Evan Bayh, (IN)
- Robert Byrd, (WV) *
- Debbie Stabenow (MI)
- Mark Begich, (AK)
*If he recovers from his hospitalization and is well enough to vote.
Read Harris' previous letter detailing just how far left Barack Obama is here.