• "Nearly a month after President Barack Obama picked her for the Supreme Court, Republican senators say Sonia Sotomayor isn't serving as the political lightning rod some in their party had hoped she would be," Politico reports.

• The New York Times reports on the "30-year relationship" between Sotomayor and her mentor, Judge José A. Cabranes. The relationship was "first as protégé and mentor, later as often-opposing judges on the same court." In many ways, it has "shaped the career that led Judge Sotomayor to her own nomination to the Supreme Court."

• "While Judge Sotomayor has occasionally made statements outside court that conservatives find objectionable, it is far from clear that her judicial record supports the accusation that she is an activist," the Times reported on Friday. "Several empirical studies have concluded that she is not particularly prone to overriding policy decisions by elected branches."

• "Sotomayor resigned Friday from an elite all-women's club after Republicans questioned her participation in it," AP reported Friday. "Sotomayor said she resigned from the Belizean Grove to prevent the issue from becoming a distraction in her confirmation hearings."

Top Commentary

• In Slate, lawyer and Duke law professor Walter Dellinger discusses which Supreme Court cases from this term will play a role in Sotomayor's hearings.

• "Sotomayor's confirmation will provide inspiration for young Latinos to dream big. But we must tread lightly," Sarita E. Brown, president of a Latino education organization, cautions at Inside Higher Ed.

• In the Washington Times, Charmaine Yoest, president of the right-leaning Americans United for Life, contends that Sotomayor "is worse than Justice [David] Souter -- reading a 'fundamental right' to abortion into the Constitution."