List of 11: Who Didn't Sotomayor Meet With?

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Since President Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor six weeks ago, the judge has met with a whopping 89 senators, more than any other previous SCOTUS nominee. Yet as high as that number is, that still leaves 11 members of the senate who Sotomayor didn't talk with before her hearings. Who are they? Meetings were deemed futile with Sens. Pat Roberts of Kansas and James Inhofe of Oklahoma, both of whom have adamantly opposed Soyomayor's nomination, promising to vote against it. She was also unable to meet or talk with senate elders Robert Byrd of West Virginia and Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, who have both taken time off to deal with health ailments. That leaves Wyoming Senators John Barrasso and Michael Enzi, Kit Bond of Missouri, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Richard Lugar of Indiana, John Ensign of Nevada and Arizona's John McCain. Bob Corker of Tennessee initially called off his meeting with the justice-in-waiting after she called to say she'd be 10 minutes late, but after word got out of the missed connection, his office asked to reschedule. All of them, you might note, are Republicans, which reasonably makes them slow to warm to the nominee of a Democratic president. But we're also told it was a function of time. Obama nominated Sotomayor at the end of May, giving her a month and a half to trek the long and confusing halls of Capitol Hill for the meet-and-greets. And, don't forget, she had to do with her ankle in a cast after she injured it in early June. Still, 89 is a big number, but it's not high enough. A spokesperson for Sotomayor says the meetings and courtesy calls will continue after the hearings.

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