Expectations for Justice Sotomayor:
With Justice Sotomayor having recently joined the Supreme Court, and with the first oral argument just days away, I thought it might be interesting to take a reader poll on roughly how we expect Justice Sotomayor to vote as a Justice. Here are a few possibilities, most of which use the Justice she replaced as a baseline. Please select the description that you think most accurately describes where you expect Sotomayor to fit on the Court's spectrum.

I expect Justice Sotomayorto vote. . .
Just like Justice Souter voted
As a more liberal Justice than Justice Souter
As a more conservative Justice than Justice Souter
As more liberal than Justice Souter on some issues and more conservative than Justice Souter on other issues
In a way that simply applies the law without any apparent ideological agenda
  
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