{"id":4658,"date":"2009-06-16T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T02:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/06\/udall-sotomayor-has-a-true-commitment-to-justice\/"},"modified":"2009-06-16T20:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T02:23:00","slug":"udall-sotomayor-has-a-true-commitment-to-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/06\/udall-sotomayor-has-a-true-commitment-to-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Udall: Sotomayor has &#8216;a true commitment to justice&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SjgXRkQ7peI\/AAAAAAAALw8\/WiZS5EQEZ4Q\/s1600-h\/SotomayorandUdall2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SjgXRkQ7peI\/AAAAAAAALw8\/WiZS5EQEZ4Q\/s1600\/SotomayorandUdall2.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348050148062373346\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">U.S. Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/tomudall.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Udall<\/a>, D-N.M., said he was impressed after meeting 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\">\u201cI found Judge Sotomayor to be extremely qualified and well suited to serve on the United States Supreme Court,\u201d Udall said in a statement released by his office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cIn our meeting, Judge Sotomayor showed a true commitment to justice. We discussed her background and cases as a prosecutor, and I was very impressed by her temperament and dedication to the law,\u201d said Udall, a former New Mexico attorney general. \u201cWe also talked about her love for New Mexico, where her former law-school roommate lives, and her appreciation for our spicy food.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Earlier today, U.S. Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/bingaman.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Bingaman<\/a>, D-N.M., said he was <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/bingaman-very-impressed-with-sotomayor.html\">\u201cvery impressed\u201d<\/a> after meeting with Sotomayor. 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. Tom Udall, D-N.M., said he was impressed after meeting today with Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama\u2019s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court. \u201cI found Judge Sotomayor to be extremely qualified and well suited to serve on the United States Supreme Court,\u201d Udall said in a statement released by his office. \u201cIn our [&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-4658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658","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=4658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}