• "Calling her Judiciary Committee testimony 'evasive, lacking in substance and, in several instances, incredibly misleading,' Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl said he will vote against Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court," ABC News reports. "Kyl, the Senate's No. 2 Republican, will announce his decision on the Senate floor" this morning.

• Two GOP senators announced on Tuesday how they intend to vote, the Washington Post reports. Susan Collins of Maine said she will vote yes and Roger Wicker of Mississippi said he will vote no.

• In North Carolina, Democrat Kay Hagan supports Sotomayor while Republican Richard Burr "isn't ready to commit," the Raleigh News & Observer reports.

• "Several Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are struggling with a sticky political dilemma," Politico reports. "Do they vote 'no,' please the conservative base and send a message that liberal justices will be opposed at every turn? Or do they vote 'yes' and dampen Democratic attacks over their opposition to a nominee who will almost certainly become the first Latina Supreme Court justice?"

• "The abortion rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America endorsed Sotomayor, breaking months of silence on her nomination that stemmed from uncertainty about where the judge stands on the legal underpinnings of a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy," AP reports.

Commentary

• "The bulk of Tuesday's nearly three-minute" Senate Judiciary Committee "hearing was a playground-style argument between" Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and ranking member Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., "about which party confirmed the other side's nominees faster," Dana Milbank remarks.

• Sotomayor showed during her hearings that she "does not know the truth about the constitutional law of abortion in our country, or that she is willing -- for whatever reason -- to mischaracterize the matter before a national audience," writes Matthew J. Franck, political science director at Radford University, in an online publication of the conservative Witherspoon Institute.