• "Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy accused Republicans Sunday of playing the race card on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor," Politico reports. "'You have one leader of the Republican Party call her the equivalent of the head of the Ku Klux Klan. Another leader of the Republican Party called her a bigot,' the Vermont Democrat said on CNN's 'State of the Union.'"

• "A competent and cautious performance at her Senate Judiciary Committee hearing is positioning" Sotomayor "headed for virtually certain confirmation to the Supreme Court," CQ Politics reports.

• "At least three" Sotomayors "were portrayed before the Senate Judiciary Committee at its four-day confirmation hearing last week," the National Law Journal reports. "All three versions... are caricatures born of the political dynamics of modern-day confirmation hearings, which seem to require nominees to disavow all emotions and opinions."

• Roll Call (subscription) reports that Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, became the first GOP senator to oppose her who voted in favor of her confirmation to the appellate bench in 1998. There are seven current Republican senators who voted "yea" at that time.