claim: says president barack obama’s nominees met a standard of 60 votes, "a standard that was met by elena kagan as well as sonia sotomayor, president obama's choices."
author: richard durbin
evidence_1: feb 2, 2017 ... two of the justices on the supreme court failed to meet a "standard" ... y.) says  neil gorsuch, president trump's nominee for the supreme court, ... was met by  elena kagan as well as sonia sotomayor, president obama's choices. ... sixty  votes is a bar that was met by each of president obama's nominees.
evidence_2: says president barack obama's nominees met a standard of 60 votes, ... that was  met by elena kagan as well as sonia sotomayor, president obama's choices.
evidence_3: president barack obama made two successful appointments to the supreme  court of the united states. the first was judge sonia sotomayor to fill the  vacancy created by the retirement of justice david h. souter. sotomayor was  confirmed by the united states senate on august 6, 2009, ... the second  appointment was that of solicitor general elena kagan to ...
evidence_4: says president barack obama's nominees met a standard of 60 votes, ... that was  met by elena kagan as well as sonia sotomayor, president obama's choices.
evidence_5: sonia maria sotomayor is an associate justice of the supreme court of the  united states, appointed by president barack obama in may 2009 and ... her  nomination was confirmed by the senate in august 2009 by a vote of 68–31. ...  the two left puerto rico separately, met, and married during world war ii after  celina ...