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Poll: Majority of Americans Support Sotomayor Confirmation

By: Mark Sherman

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans have a more favorable first impression of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor than they did for any of President George W. Bush's choices for the high court, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll.

The public also backs her confirmation in higher numbers.

Poll: Majority of Americans Support Sotomayor Confirmation....

GOP Decrying Sotomayor’s Experience? Look at Clarence Thomas

By: Tonyaa Weathersbee

So now, a Puerto Rican woman from the Bronx is President Barack Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court.

And already, some wingnuts are so apoplectic that they can’t even get her name right.

“The appointment of Maria Sotomayor to the Supreme Court is the clearest indication yet that President Obama’s campaign promises to be a centrist and to think in a bipartisan way were mere rhetoric,” said former Arkansas governor and GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. “Sotomayor comes from the far left and will likely leave us with something akin to the ‘Extreme Court’ that could mark a major shift.”

Ahem. Somebody should have told the governor that the nominee’s first name is Sonia. Not Maria.

Not a character out of “West Side Story,” but an appellate court judge whose accomplishments transcend the stereotypes that Huckabee and other right-wingers love to wallow in.

GOP Decrying Sotomayor’s Experience? Look at Clarence Thomas....