• "On Tuesday, the Senate is expected to take up the Supreme Court nomination of Sonia Sotomayor," The Hill reports. "Senate Republicans have proposed a four-day debate on the nominee and Senate Judiciary Committee ranking Republican Jeff Sessions (Ala.) has called on every Republican senator to review Sotomayor's record and speak at length on the floor. Senate Democratic leaders, however, say that two days should be enough."

• Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., "says he is still on the fence" about Sotomayor, AP reports. "McCain says he is examining Sotomayor's record as an appeals court judge to decide whether she understands the limits to judicial power. He voted against her when she was nominated to the appeals court."

• "Ever since President Barack Obama tapped Sotomayor... to serve as the first Hispanic on the nation's highest court, the nomination has become not only a source of pride among South Florida's Puerto Rican community, but also a platform to flex its political muscle," the Miami Herald reports.

• "The National Rifle Association's threat to punish senators who vote for" Sotomayor "has been met with a shrug by Democrats from conservative-leaning states and some Republicans who are breaking with their party to support her," AP reported on Sunday.

Commentary

• The New York Times charges that the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee who voted against Sotomayor made "flimsy arguments," and hopes that "the vote in the full Senate for Judge Sotomayor will be overwhelming and the rhetoric more high-minded."

• In Politico, Nan Aron, president of the left-leaning Alliance for Justice, says this nomination has made it easier for Obama to pick a more liberal justice next time: "If a small Republican minority is going to oppose a moderate as if she's an unhinged extremist, there should be no political cost to nominating a qualified candidate who is a true progressive."

• "The ridiculous Sotomayor bashing must stop," Ira Forman, executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council, maintains in the Philadelphia Jewish Voice. "Republicans and Democrats should work together to review Sotomayor's record and work towards a confirmation this summer."

• "The Sotomayor vote is about ideology, not race," John Yoo, a Justice Department official during the Bush administration, remarks in the Philadelphia Inquirer. "It is the culmination of decades of politicization of court appointments that was launched by Democrats with only fitful responses by Republicans."

• In the Indianapolis Star, Indiana University law and public policy professor Sheila Kennedy laments that the confirmation hearings "were embarrassingly bad. I know these hearings have become politicized. But a judicial nomination should at the least be an opportunity to demonstrate to the American public how the judicial process really works."

• Stuart Taylor Jr. discusses the importance of "disparate impact," which he says is at the "core" of Sotomayor's Ricci v. DeStefano ruling.