• "Legal experts said" Sonia Sotomayor's "rulings fall within the mainstream of those by Democratic-appointed judges," the Washington Post reports. "But some were critical of her style, saying it comes close to overstepping the traditional role of appellate judges, who give considerable deference to the judges and juries that observe testimony and are considered the primary finders of fact."

• The Post also highlights statements from some of Sotomayor's key rulings.

• "Sotomayor's thin record on the limits of presidential power suggests she will be neither reflexively hostile to broad expansion of a president's authority nor a reliable rubber stamp in support of it," AP reports.

• "The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University law school is completing an analysis of nearly 1,200 rulings by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit," the New York Times reports. "The study found that" Sotomayor "has a slightly higher rate of striking down governmental actions than her appeals court's average rate, but that the gap is small."

• "Former directors of a Latino legal advocacy group have attacked Alabama Republican Jeff Sessions' emphasis on the group's work as a means to criticize" Sotomayor, CQ Politics reports.

• The McClatchy News Service quotes Senate Judiciary Committee member Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., as saying, "I honestly think I could vote for her."

• "Anti-abortion activist Randall Terry wants" Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., "to lead a filibuster against" Sotomayor's confirmation, AP reports.

• "A red-state Democratic rebellion based on gun rights may be the Republicans' best shot if they want to derail" Sotomayor's nomination," Politico reports. "But so far, even the National Rifle Association has yet to engage in a serious lobbying effort to pressure centrist Democrats to oppose Sotomayor."

• "Later this week, former FBI Director Louis Freeh is expected to formally endorse" Sotomayor's nomination "in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee," NPR reports. "Freeh got to know Sotomayor when the two served as federal trial judges in Manhattan."

• "In playing up" Sotomayor's "judicial record on criminal law, the White House and Senate Democrats are making a solid non-ideological case for her as a Supreme Court nominee, a handful of law professors said in a conference call today," NationalJournal.com reports.

• In a Q&A with the New York Times Magazine, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg talks about women on the high court.

• The Wall Street Journal rounds up various comments senators have made about Sotomayor.

Commentary

• In a video on The New Republic's Web site, Center for American Progress senior fellow Ray Teixeira argues that public support for Sotomayor "provides evidence that issues like affirmative action and gay rights don't fire up nearly as many conservatives as they used to."

• In the Huffington Post, Vanderbilt political science and law professor Carol Swain discusses the "legacy on race relations" Obama may leave.