Opening Statement: Sen. Patrick Leahy

Courtesy NPR: Politics & Society  Mon, 07/13/2009 - 08:21

Read the opening statement, as prepared for delivery, by Sen. Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee at the beginning of the confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor to be an associate justice of the U.S.

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