• Per the White House, Sonia Sotomayor is meeting with the following senators today: Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., Thomas Carper, D-Del., Thad Cochran, R-Miss., Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., and Tom Udall, D-N.M.

• Sotomayor "on Monday defended her membership in an all-female networking club, telling senators... that the group did not discriminate in an inappropriate way," the New York Times reports. "Sotomayor made the remarks in a cover letter for 10 documents the White House submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee."

• Politico reports that those documents include "additional information and documentation related to her tenure on the board of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, as well as details of a couple of subsequently overturned criminal sentences she imposed."

• Judiciary Committee Republicans wanted more on Sotomayor's work with the defense fund, but she "said she could not find notes or drafts for the speeches senators asked about," the Washington Times reports.

• White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett argues that "critics are holding" Sotomayor "to a 'double standard,'" the Washington Post reports.

• "Obama fired a Bush-era inspector general last week despite the administration's use of the former prosecutor as an adviser in Sotomayor's nomination," the Washington Times reports.

• Senate Judiciary ranking member Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., "said Monday that he is concerned" Obama "is driving federal courts 'far to the left' by choosing 'activist' 'judges for the bench," USA Today reports. He "said Obama's judicial nominees, including Sotomayor and three others to the U.S. Court of Appeals, raise questions about what role a judge's background should play in deciding cases."

• USA Today also reports that Sessions "said he doesn't expect a filibuster over" Sotomayor's nomination, "but he said most Republicans wouldn't want to give the option up, either."

• The Washington Post profiles the New York neighborhood where Sotomayor grew up.

• A month after Sotomayor's nomination, "150 children with Type 1 diabetes will go to Capitol Hill to urge Congress to raise awareness of the disease and increase funding for research," the Post also reports. "The disease was diagnosed in Sotomayor when she was 8."

Top Commentary

• "Overlooked in the hysteria over" Ricci v. DeStefano "is that Judge Sotomayor considered issues of race almost 100 times as an appellate judge. Having now reviewed every single race-related case on which she sat in more than a decade on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, I've concluded that Judge Sotomayor does not allow bias to infect her decision-making," Tom Goldstein, founder of SCOTUSblog and Supreme Court litigator at Akin Gump, maintains in the New York Times.

• On RealClearPolitics.com, pollster Kellyanne Conway and former Republican congressman David McIntosh cite new polling that explains "why -- despite the President's personal popularity and a 60-vote majority in the Senate -- the White House must address the fact that Americans overwhelmingly disapprove of the President's standard for picking judges, as well as the standard articulated by Sotomayor throughout her career."

• "In 2002 Vermont Democrat Senator Patrick Leahy, then as now the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, was a vocal opponent of Bush Third Circuit Court nominee D. Brooks Smith because of Smith's former membership in an all-male fishing club in Pennsylvania. Today, Leahy is silent on the membership of" Sotomayor "in the Belizean Grove, an elite, all-female club," The American Spectator's Jeffrey Lord writes.

• In the Buffalo News, Loyola University Chicago School of Law scholar Douglas G. Smith writes that Sotomayor should be questioned in her hearings about the administration's actions, especially with regard to the auto industry.