• "Sen. Jeff Sessions, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, says he will vote against Judge Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation to the Supreme Court in the committee vote scheduled for Tuesday," USA Today reports.

• "South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham is going to feel awfully lonely on the Republican side of the Judiciary Committee dais during Tuesday's" vote on Sotomayor, Politico reports. GOP Sens. Orrin Hatch of Utah, Jon Kyl of Arizona and John Cornyn of Texas -- "all of whom were undecided as of last week -- will all vote no in committee. It's not clear yet if Graham will be the only Republican 'yes' vote on the panel."

• Keep track of which senators are committing to yes or no votes with NationalJournal.com's Vote Tracker.

• "Sotomayor's installment on the Supreme Court is not yet certain, but the new justice's actual seat on the bench is a sure thing," Roll Call (subscription) reports. "Like many of the high court's procedures, seat selection falls under a long tradition of seniority. The new justice will take the chair at the far left end of the mahogany bench."

• "Understanding Sotomayor's activism requires looking at the place where her lifelong passion for minority rights took root," NationalJournal.com reports in an analysis on her time at Princeton University.

• "Sotomayor's inspirational life journey has been at the center of her Supreme Court nomination story.... But don't expect to read that story between hard covers anytime soon," Politico reports. "If Sotomayor is confirmed by the Senate, she's likely to follow the lead of her bench mates and focus on the law -- not on memoirs -- for the foreseeable future. Biographers, too, are likely to wait to see what impact she makes."

Commentary

• USA Today finds "nothing in Sotomayor's record that disqualifies her and much to commend her. Majorities on the Judiciary Committee and in the full Senate appear to agree. The nominee more than merits confirmation."

• In an opposing view, Sessions explains why he plans to vote against her confirmation: "I don't believe that Judge Sotomayor has the deep-rooted convictions necessary to resist the siren call of judicial activism. She has evoked its mantra too often. As someone who cares deeply about our great heritage of law, I must withhold my consent."

• "Sotomayor cruised through her confirmation hearings without a scratch," syndicated columnist Ruben Navarrette Jr. writes on CNN.com. "Too bad we can't say the same about the seven Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee who tried to dent her credibility and wound up demolishing their own."

• In the Huffington Post, management consultant Charles H. Green contends that Sotomayor was right when she first made her "wise Latina woman" comment: "People observe and believe very different things based on whether they are members of a minority, or of a majority. One group, I suggest, notices more, and knows more, than the other."