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Sen. Kohl begins prep ahead of Sotomayor hearing

By ASSOCIATED PRESS Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 6:37 a.m.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A task force of legal experts and community leaders will help Sen. Herb Kohl evaluate Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor (soh-toh-my-YOR') Tuesday in Milwaukee.

Kohl meets with the 11-member bipartisan panel at the Marquette University Law School.

President Barack Obama nominated Sotomayor in May. She would be the first Hispanic to serve on the high court.

Sotomayor's nomination hearings are scheduled to begin July 13 before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Kohl and fellow Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold sit on that committee.

Both senators voted to confirm Sotomayor in 1998 when President Bill Clinton nominated her for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

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coyote
Jun 30, 2009 at 5:27 p.m.
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equal; but to enforce not create law.

janesvillean
Jun 30, 2009 at 10:50 a.m.
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Sotomayor is more popular than Alito and Roberts, so maybe the public has remembered that the judicial branch is actually equal to the legislative and executive branches.

coyote
Jun 30, 2009 at 6:43 a.m.
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...and likes to legislate from the bench; no wonder our elected officials are so enamored with her.

coyote
Jun 30, 2009 at 6:41 a.m.
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She is totally anti-gun

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