claim: says obama "called kagan a moderate. he called sotomayor a moderate."
author: mitch mcconnell
evidence_1: oct 29, 2010 ... constitutional scholar laurence tribe said sotomayor could have a "negative  impact"; he also was critical of three other justices and some being considered  for appointment; his comments were in a letter to obama in may 2009.  washington (cnn) -- president barack obama's longtime legal mentor and ...
evidence_2: she said it, but later backtracked. mitch mcconnell · says hillary clinton "lied  about why her parents named her hillary." — politifact national on tuesday, july  19th, 2016. mostly true. obama never explicitly said moderate. mitch mcconnell  · says obama "called kagan a moderate. he called sotomayor a moderate.".
evidence_3: mar 16, 2016 ... the early consensus on supreme court nominee merrick garland is in, and it's  that garland is a moderate: a former prosecutor, careful in his ... according to one  measure of supreme court justices' ideology, garland is hardly less left-wing  than obama's past nominees, elena kagan and sonia sotomayor.
evidence_4: aug 8, 2016 ... he got two left-leaning women onto the court: sonia sotomayor, the first  hispanic justice, and elena kagan, his former solicitor general. ..... “on a broad  range of matters there's not a dime's worth of difference between a goodwin liu  and a so-called moderate,” says ed whelan, president of the ethics and ...
evidence_5: oct 10, 2016 ... donald trump didn't have much to say about the supreme court, other than he  had a “very beautifully reviewed” list of pre-nominees. ... and may explain why  obama offered garland's name in the first place: he's a moderate, consensus  nominee that republican senators should be able to get behind.