WASHINGTON - Sonia Sotomayor kept her cool Tuesday, even when she was being portrayed at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing as just the opposite — a hotheaded judge who is sometimes mean to lawyers who appear before her.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., raised the subject, citing anonymous comments in the Almanac(年鉴) of the Federal Judiciary from lawyers who called Sotomayor "a terror on the bench" and said she is "temperamental and excitable," abuses(伤害；辱骂,毁谤) lawyers and makes inappropriate outbursts(感情迸发).
Graham acknowledged there were also favorable anonymous comments about the 12-year appeals court veteran(老手), but he didn't repeat them: descriptions of her as "frighteningly smart" with a "very good commonsense approach to the law" and "extremely hard working and always prepared."