• "Sen. Lindsey Graham raised concerns Wednesday about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's temperament as a judge, becoming one of the first senators to do so. 'There's a temperament problem,' said the South Carolina Republican after emerging from a private meeting," CQ's Legal Beat reports.

• Following private meetings with Sotomayor, "two Northwest Democratic senators [said] they are impressed" with the nominee, the AP reports.

• The FBI "has completed its background report on" Sotomayor "and has delivered the report to the Senate Judiciary Committee," The Blog of Legal Times reports.

• The New York Times examines the "competing pressures Republicans face as they sort through how to handle the nomination of Judge Sotomayor, who is under attack from the right but is a symbol of pride for Hispanic Americans."

• "The unanimous, unsigned, one-paragraph opinion affirming a lower court's ruling in Ricci v. DeStefano may be the closest thing to an Achilles heel in" Sotomayor's "17-year appellate bench career," NationalJournal.com reports. "While interest groups, legal experts and politicians will spend the coming weeks disputing the case's significance, it will undoubtedly loom large in the lead-up to her confirmation hearings."

• "Two D.C. lawyers said at Georgetown University Law Center" Wednesday "that a controversial ruling on property rights could come back to hurt" the nominee, the Blog of Legal Times reports.

• "The five years Sotomayor spent in the Manhattan district attorney's office, say several friends and colleagues, shaped her as a criminal prosecutor and helped form her worldview as a judge," the Washington Post reports.

• The Connecticut Law Tribune interviews 2nd Circuit Judge Guido Calabresi, who has known Sotomayor since she was a student at Yale Law School.

• "In a commencement speech at a Washington science and math magnet school, first lady Michelle Obama extolled" Sotomayor, USA Today reports. Read and see a video of Obama's full remarks on Sotomayor here.

• Sotomayor "pronounces her own name like this: soh-toh-my-YOR' -- accent on the final syllable," the AP reports. "But plenty of TV news anchors have put the accent on the first syllable (SOH'-tuh-my-er), or come up with some other mangled variation."

Commentary

• "Based on the Obama precedent" in the confirmation hearings of John Roberts, "the White House can hardly complain if Republicans push beyond the question of Sotomayor's qualifications and examine her values -- and her biases," David S. Broder maintains.

• In Politico, Ed Whelan, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and blogger at National Review Online, explains why he thinks the 11 sitting senators who voted against Sotomayor's confirmation to the appellate bench have "ample" reason to vote against her now as well.

• In the Wall Street Journal, Quinnipiac University pollster Peter Brown references new surveys to suggest that Republicans have so far "failed" at finding a way to put "a chink in" Sotomayor's "armor before her expected confirmation hearings next month."

• The nomination "provides an opportunity for African-Americans to strengthen the black-brown coalition by enthusiastically supporting the first Latina nominee to the Supreme Court," Democratic consultant Jamal Simmons writes in Politico.