Posted Aug. 7, 2009 at 4:44 AM

Tagged: Tom Udall (NM) Lindsey Graham (SC, National) Lamar Alexander (TN, National) Melquiades Martinez (FL, National) Barack Obama (National) Edward Kennedy (MA, National) Jeff Bingaman (NM, National) Patrick Leahy (VT, National) Robert Byrd (WV, National)

http://www.abqjournal.com/news/state/072212268320newsstate08-07-09.htm

WASHINGTON — Sonia Sotomayor won confirmation Thursday as the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, a history-making Senate vote that capped a summerlong debate heavy with ethnic politics...