As Senators get closer to taking their August break, they are racing to finish some important business. They are hoping for a vote on the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, and the cash-for-clunkers program.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says he’ll vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, breaking with his party’s conservative leaders.

South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a critic of Sonia Sotomayor, says he’s feeling more comfortable about her going to the Supreme Court, saying he hopes she won’t let personal opinions drive her rulings.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, appeared to be trying to determine how Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor might rule in cases involving U.S. treatment of terror suspects.

Sotomayor was asked Tuesday at her Senate confirmation hearing to clarify her controversial remark that a “wise Latina” might be able to make better decisions than a white man.

Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina says that’ll happen unless Sotomayor has what he calls a “complete meltdown.“

In a 5-to-4 ruling, the Supreme Court said the city of New Haven, Connecticut, was wrong to deny promotions to white firefighters because no blacks scored high enough to be promoted.

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor said Thursday that she would follow a historic ruling affirming Americans’ right to own guns for self-defense, but pro-gun activists said they still believe she’d work to limit gun rights if confirmed for the high court.

South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said Wednesday that he does not believe Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is racist, as charged by other high-profile conservatives.

President Barack Obama’s first Supreme Court nominee says that she never forgets the “real-world consequences” of the decisions she makes from the bench.

U.S. Senator Jim Demint of South Carolina issued the following statement about President Obama’s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to serve as Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court.