Cutting Room Floor: Judicial Sidebar

By Roll Call Staff

Posted July 17, 2009 at 3:30pm

[IMGCAP(1)]Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) confer while Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor testifies during Thursday’s portion of her confirmation hearings.

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