All seven Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have just sent a letter to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor noting “a number of apparent omissions” in the 172-page questionnaire Sotomayor recently submitted to the committee. The letter asks Sotomayor for more details about her employment history; law journal articles she may have worked on while at Yale Law School; reports she may have worked on on behalf of activist groups; any so-far-unreported activities on behalf of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund; legal opinions in which she was later reversed by a higher court; her time as a prosecutor in Manhattan; and her time as a private lawyer.
“Although you have provided a great deal of information to the committee, and we appreciate your efforts,” the GOP senators wrote, “it is important that your information be complete to permit the committee to properly evaluate your record in the short time that has been provided.”
For more on this issue, please take a look at my story today, “Republicans cite troubling gaps in Sotomayor’s questionnaire.”
