WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee put off its vote yesterday on U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor for one week amid objections from the panel’s conservative Republicans, even as the judge’s support among GOP moderates continued to grow.
Senator Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the committee chairman, said his panel would vote on the nomination on July 28 and expressed confidence Judge Sotomayor would win confirmation by a bipartisan vote of the full Senate in time for the Court’s earlier-than-usual first meeting on Sept. 9.
