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Tuesday, June 2, 2009 5:00 PM

In the White House press briefing today, press secretary Robert Gibbs said that Sonia Sotomayor's completed Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire will be released sometime this week.

In response to a reporter's question about timing -- especially noting that Republicans are in no rush to vote according to any specific time table -- Gibbs hearkened back to previous SCOTUS confirmation processes.

"If you look at the time frame of number of days between the announcement of a Supreme Court pick and the hearings, for the last nine confirmed justices, it's been 51 days between the announcement and the beginning of the hearing," Gibbs said. "That would put her hearing sometime in mid-July, which would I think provide a timetable by which the due diligence of senators on both sides of the aisle can be accomplished."

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