Smooth Sailing for Sonia Sotomayor?

At least that’s what it’s looking like, according to the New York Times and the Washington Post. Today Justice Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee drew to a close, and no major bombshells were dropped. A Senate vote is expected in early August.
Update: Gibson Dunn partner Tom Dupree, who served in the Bush II Justice Department and argued before Judge Sotomayor five times, has a nice recap over at the WSJ Law Blog.
We’ll soon learn what the senators think of the prospect of Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor. In the meantime, what do you think?
We’ve asked you before for your views on whether Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the Second Circuit should be confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court. In our earlier poll, which received more than 8,000 votes, over 70 percent of you voiced support for a Justice Sotomayor.
Did anything that we learned in the confirmation hearings change your mind? Take our new poll:

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