Legal Beat

The seven Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have asked Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor for more documents to supplement her committee questionnaire.

In a letter to Sotomayor today, the Republicans said that Sotomayor had incompletely answered some questions, and had failed to provide some of the requisite supporting documents.

Among other things, the Republicans wrote that they are concerned that Sotomayor did not provide any drafts, videos or summaries of "more than half" of the speeches and lectures she listed on the questionnaire.

"These are not little itty-bitty matters, they're important matters," Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the Judiciary Committee's ranking Republican, said on the Senate floor. "If we're going to move forward in a record-breaking time frame, the least we can expect is complete and full answers for these questions."