Though GOP lawmakers have been tentative in offering any criticism of SCOTUS nominee Sonia Sotomayor, conservative bloggers today exhibited less restraint. They're girding for a fight:

• Michelle Malkin: "So, it's Sonia Sotomayor. Identity politics triumphs."

• John Hawkins: "Barack Obama picked Sonia Sotomayor because she's Hispanic, female, and is willing to put liberal political concerns above the Constitution."

• Ilya Shapiro: "Judge Sotomayor is not one of the leading lights of the federal judiciary and would not even have been on the shortlist if she were not Hispanic."

• Ramesh Ponnuru: "[Sotomayor is] Obama's Harriet Miers."

• Erick Erickson: "Conservatives rejoice. Of all the picks Obama could have picked, he picked the most intellectually shallow."

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