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On the recordMay 7, 2009
Absolutely not. I mean, I took one look at her resume, you know, summa cum laude at Princeton, the Yale Law Journal, and I said--and then I talked to her and--and I thought she had common sense and judgment and willingness to work.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin emphasizes that Sotomayor's qualifications were based on merit, not ethnicity.

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