Sotomayor's No Liberal - Even If She Says She Is

 
ABC national correspondent Claire Shipman: “I think it’s also hard when you look at [Supreme Court nominee Sonia] Sotomayor’s record and look at the cases, it’s very hard for people to make the case that she’s a typical, you know, elite liberal judicial philosopher. I mean, really, she’s not....”
Liberal Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Cynthia Tucker: “As Claire just said, her opinions don’t show - she is certainly liberal, she’s called herself ‘liberal’ - but she’s nobody’s knee-jerk radical.”
— ABC’s This Week, June 7, 2009.