{"id":7016,"date":"2009-08-06T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-statement-on-confirmation-of-judge-sonia-sotomayor\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:11:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:11:38","slug":"merkley-statement-on-confirmation-of-judge-sonia-sotomayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-statement-on-confirmation-of-judge-sonia-sotomayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Declaraci\u00f3n de Merkley sobre la confirmaci\u00f3n de la jueza Sonia Sotomayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>WASHINGTON DC <\/strong>&ndash; Today, Oregon&rsquo;s Senator Jeff Merkley<br \/>\njoined 67 of his colleagues in voting to confirm Judge Sonia Sotomayor as the<br \/>\nnewest justice on the United States Supreme Court.&nbsp; After the vote,<br \/>\nMerkley emiti\u00f3 la siguiente declaraci\u00f3n:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&ldquo;As as our nation&rsquo;s first Hispanic Justice, this is a<br \/>\nhistoric confirmation.&nbsp; Judge Sotomayor&rsquo;s intelligence, experience on<br \/>\nthe bench and commitment to the Constitution make her a tremendous addition to<br \/>\nthe Supreme Court.&nbsp;&nbsp; Her diverse background and set of life<br \/>\nexperiences give her valuable insight into the real world application of the<br \/>\nlaw and complement her careful, well-reasoned judicial approach.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m very<br \/>\nproud to have supported her confirmation.&rdquo;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC &ndash; Today, Oregon&rsquo;s Senator Jeff Merkley joined 67 of his colleagues in voting to confirm Judge Sonia Sotomayor as the newest justice on the United States Supreme Court.&nbsp; After the vote, Merkley issued the following statement: &ldquo;As as our nation&rsquo;s first Hispanic Justice, this is a historic confirmation.&nbsp; Judge Sotomayor&rsquo;s intelligence, experience on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Merkley Statement on Confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor - Merkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-statement-on-confirmation-of-judge-sonia-sotomayor\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Merkley Statement on Confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WASHINGTON, DC &ndash; 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