WASHINGTON (AP) -- The country's first Hispanic attorney general says the woman who would be its first Hispanic Supreme Court justice still has some convincing to do if she wishes to get Republican support.
Alberto Gonzales, who resigned under pressure during the second term of George W. Bush's presidency, said he thinks that Sonia Sotomayor's (SUHN'-ya soh-toh-my-YOR') answers to GOP questions starting Tuesday "will be quite revealing."
Gonzales said that Sotomayor's promise of "fidelity to the law" won't be sufficient to set aside Republican concerns that she would be a liberal activist on the high court. Gonzales resigned amid a controversy over the firings of federal prosecutors
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