Updated at 10:20 a.m. on June 17.

• Per the White House, Sonia Sotomayor is meeting with the following senators today: Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., Robert Bennett, R-Utah, Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., and Jim Webb, D-Va.

• "When the curtain goes up on" Sotomayor's "confirmation hearing next month, the stars of the show will be the nominee and the 19 members of the Senate Judiciary Committee," the National Law Journal reports. "But this production is scripted mostly by a handful of Republican and Democratic lawyers on Capitol Hill."

• "What cases, other than the already divisive Ricci v. DeStefano, will come to the fore during Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings? NationalJournal.com polled several Supreme Court observers for their take on this question, and on which Judiciary Committee Republican will be the toughest questioner."

• "Sotomayor expressed skepticism in March 2003 about the expanded government surveillance powers in the USA Patriot Act, citing what she referred to as its broader authority 'to impose nationwide wiretaps with little judicial supervision' and to monitor Internet use in search of terrorists," the New York Times reports.

• "Many conservatives opposed to" Sotomayor's nomination "have argued that she is opposed to gun rights, a view based largely on a New York case in which she took part this year," the Times also reports. "But in an opinion a few weeks ago, in a Chicago gun-control case, a panel of conservative appellate judges said Judge Sotomayor and her colleagues on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit had gotten it right."

• The Blog of Legal Times reports on a speech Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., made Tuesday in which he compared the Sotomayor opposition to that of Thurgood Marshall's nomination to the Supreme Court.

• CQ reports on the same speech, looking at how Democrats could use a case the Supreme Court is handing down soon about the Voting Rights Act.

• "The left-leaning Alliance for Justice released a report" Tuesday promoting the nominee's "law-and-order bona fides," NationalJournal.com reports. "The report, which examines dozens of criminal law cases from throughout her judicial career, concludes that Sotomayor 'has more experience in criminal law than any of the justices with whom she will sit if she is confirmed.'"

• The group also "promises new studies of Sotomayor's record in coming weeks," the Washington Post reports.