https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/sonia-sotomayor-obamas-moderate-nominee/
WASHINGTON — Republicans would be foolish to fight the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court because she is the most conservative choice that President Obama could have made.
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106358266
Analysts see Judge Sonia Sotomayor as a moderate whose decisions in criminal cases rarely differ from those of her colleagues on the federal bench. Some say her experience as a prosecutor and her record on the bench might make her more conservative than Justice David Souter on criminal justice issues.