• Incoming Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., "said he had been told his assignments would include the Judiciary Committee, a role that would put him immediately in the thick of confirmation hearings over" Sotomayor, AP reports.

• "Latino Justice PRLDEF sent the" Senate Judiciary Committee late Tuesday "more than 350 pages of documents from the 12 years Sotomayor spent on its board, opening what could be an ugly new chapter in the debate over confirming the federal appeals court judge as the first Hispanic justice," AP also reports.

• On Tuesday, "the left-leaning Alliance for Justice issued its fourth and final report analyzing" Sotomayor's opinions, NationalJournal.com reports. "The group saved the most controversial cases for last, focusing this time on Sotomayor's constitutional and civil decisions, including Ricci, the gun rights case Maloney v. Cuomo, the voting rights case Hayden v. Pataki and a handful of decisions touching on the issue of abortion."

• "The Supreme Court's unusual order Monday delaying a decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and setting it for re-argument Sept. 9 may introduce more pressure on the Senate to confirm" Sotomayor "and have her on the bench by then," the Blog of Legal Times reports.