{"id":32520,"date":"2011-05-19T02:20:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:20:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T02:20:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:20:38","slug":"in_1997_rush_predicted_sotomayor_on_rocket_ship_to_supreme_court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/05\/19\/in_1997_rush_predicted_sotomayor_on_rocket_ship_to_supreme_court\/","title":{"rendered":"In 1997, Rush Predicted Sotomayor on &#8220;Rocket Ship&#8221; to Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125106.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright\"\/>RUSH: I had forgotten this. The Hill, Capitol Hill newspaper, recalled that in 1997 I predicted that Sonia Sotomayor was on a &#8216;rocket ship\u2019 for the US Supreme Court. Yes, we have posted the story at RushLimbaugh.com. It\u2019s a flashback. <\/p>\n<p>The headline here: &#8221;Limbaugh Foresaw Sotomayor Pick in \u201997.\u2019 &#8212; Rush Limbaugh all but predicted 12 years ago that Sonia Sotomayor was headed to the Supreme Court. In 1997, when President Bill Clinton nominated Sotomayor to become a US Circuit Court judge, Limbaugh urged Senate Republicans to block her confirmation. The conservative radio host said, on the day of Sotomayor\u2019s confirmation hearing, Sept. 30, 1997, that she was extremely liberal and was on a &#8216;rocket ship\u2019 to the high court, according to a 1998 New York Times story on GOP efforts to stop her confirmation. The Times suggested that Limbaugh\u2019s Supreme Court warning was a key reason why GOP senators delayed a floor vote on her nomination for months even after several Republicans on the Judiciary Committee supported her.\u2019 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I had forgotten this. The Hill, Capitol Hill newspaper, recalled that in 1997 I predicted that Sonia Sotomayor was on a &#8216;rocket ship\u2019 for the US Supreme Court. Yes, we have posted the story at RushLimbaugh.com. It\u2019s a flashback. The headline here: &#8221;Limbaugh Foresaw Sotomayor Pick in \u201997.\u2019 &#8212; Rush Limbaugh all but predicted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>In 1997, Rush Predicted Sotomayor on &quot;Rocket Ship&quot; to Supreme Court - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2011\/05\/19\/in_1997_rush_predicted_sotomayor_on_rocket_ship_to_supreme_court\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"In 1997, Rush Predicted Sotomayor on &quot;Rocket Ship&quot; to Supreme Court - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: I had forgotten this. 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