SOTOMAYOR v SESSIONS: Obama Supreme Court nomination sets up battle over voting rights

[Triana]

As the media pours over the life of Judge Sonia Sotomayor -- Obama's pick for the Supreme Court -- one thing is clear: She is a staunch defender of voting rights.

How will that sit with the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Jefferson Sessions of Alabama -- who prosecuted civil rights workers in the 1980s for "voter fraud" and called the Voting Rights Act "an intrusive piece of legislation?"

Read more about the brewing showdown at Facing South:


http://www.southernstudies.org/2009/05/sotomayor-v-sessions-obamas-supreme-court-nominee-sets-up-major-battle-over-voting-rights.html