McCaskill hearts Sotomayor... Yick.
Deb ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Senator McCaskill <senator_mccask...@mccaskill.senate.gov> Date: Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:52 AM Subject: From the Desk of Senator Claire McCaskill To: kcrecyc...@gmail.com Dear Ms. Wells: Thank you for contacting me regarding Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s nominee to fill the current vacancy on the United States Supreme Court. As your United States Senator, I will never play partisan politics when carrying out my constitutional duty to provide “advice and consent” on the President's nominations. I will only support nominees for the Supreme Court who I believe, based on their record, will be fair and objective in evaluating the cases that come before them in order to ensure that the United States Constitution is properly upheld. Judge Sotomayor is one of the most qualified individuals ever nominated to serve on our nation’s highest court. Throughout her extensive career, as a prosecutor, a private practitioner, a District Court Judge and an Appellate Judge, she has demonstrated a mastery of the law. Her faithfulness to the rule of law is confirmed by the fact that in cases where she served on a panel with a Republican-appointed judge, Judge Sotomayor and the Republican appointee agreed on the outcome 95% of the time. During the Senate Judiciary Committee’s nomination hearings, Senators spent hours upon hours questioning Judge Sotomayor’s judicial philosophy, her judicial record and comments she made at various speaking engagements. I found her answers to be thorough and forthright. On July 28, the Committee approved Judge Sotomayor’s nomination by a vote of 13 to 6. I remain convinced that Judge Sotomayor will be a exemplary addition to the Supreme Court, and I will vote in support of her nomination. Again, thank you for sharing your concerns with me. It is a privilege to represent you. Please do not hesitate to contact me in the future regarding other matters of interest or concern. All best, Senator Claire McCaskill P. S. You may sign up for my email newsletter at www.mccaskill.senate.gov . --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ This is a Free Speech forum. The owner of this list assumes no responsibility for the intellectual or emotional maturity of its members. If you do not like what is being said here, filter it to trash, ignore it or leave. If you leave, learn how to do this for yourself. If you do not, you will be here forever. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
