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For Immediate Release: Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Contact: Adrienne Ammerman or Mary Robbins, 202-588-5180
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE APPROVES SOTOMAYOR’S NOMINATION
NWLC Applauds Swift Action, Urges the Senate to Vote before August Recess
(Washington, DC) The Senate Judiciary Committee voted today to confirm Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court. A statement from Marcia D. Greenberger, Co-President of the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), follows:
“The strong vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee today underscores Judge Sotomayor’s extraordinary qualifications. We applaud the Committee for acting swiftly to bring this outstanding nominee one step closer to making Supreme Court history.
“Judge Sotomayor’s legal record and testimony before the Committee revealed her to be an impressive judge who is deeply respectful of legal precedent and anchors her decisions in the specific facts of the case.
“The National Women’s Law Center strongly supports her confirmation and urges the Senate to vote on the nomination before the August recess so that Judge Sotomayor can begin the important work that will come before her in September.”
NWLC’s report on Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s 17-year judicial record, her legal experience and activities, her speeches, and her four days of testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee is available here: www.nwlc.org/pdf/SotomayorReport.pdf
NWLC’s statement supporting her nomination to the Supreme Court is available here: http://www.nwlc.org/details.cfm?id=3632§ion=newsroom
The National Women’s Law Center has extensive expertise in the legal issues of central importance to women, in judicial nominations – including Supreme Court nominations – and in how Supreme Court rulings have affected women and their families. For more about NWLC or to interview Marcia Greenberger, please contact Adrienne Ammerman at aammerman@nwlc.org or at 202-588-5180.
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