{"id":4656,"date":"2009-06-16T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T21:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/06\/bingaman-very-impressed-with-sotomayor\/"},"modified":"2009-06-16T15:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T21:54:00","slug":"bingaman-very-impressed-with-sotomayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/06\/bingaman-very-impressed-with-sotomayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Bingaman &#8216;very impressed&#8217; with Sotomayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SjgXRftHADI\/AAAAAAAALw0\/1AaUyw5yJWM\/s1600-h\/SotomayorandBingaman2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SjgXRftHADI\/AAAAAAAALw0\/1AaUyw5yJWM\/s1600\/SotomayorandBingaman2.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348050146838380594\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">U.S. Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/bingaman.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Bingaman<\/a>, D-N.M., said he is \u201cvery impressed\u201d after meeting earlier today with Judge <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sonia_Sotomayor\" target=\"_blank\">Sonia Sotomayor<\/a>, President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama\u2019s<\/a> nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The two met for about 15 minutes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cShe is clearly well qualified and I think she\u2019d be a great addition to the Supreme Court,\u201d Bingaman said in a statement released by his office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Sotomayor also met this afternoon with U.S. Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/tomudall.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Udall<\/a>, D-N.M. Udall\u2019s office said a statement was forthcoming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee on the confirmation of Sotomayor begin in mid-July. Bingaman and Udall are not members of that committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., said he is \u201cvery impressed\u201d after meeting earlier today with Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama\u2019s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court. The two met for about 15 minutes. \u201cShe is clearly well qualified and I think she\u2019d be a great addition to the Supreme Court,\u201d Bingaman said in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}