The Republicans on the Judiciary Committee keep bringing up the Wise Latina quote: © Clay Jones © Mike Luckovich
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An excellent article at Five Thirty Eight points out that while conservatives claim that the Democrats want to appoint “liberal activist judges” to the Supreme Court, statistically, the most activist court in in modern history was the Rehnquist Court, a conservative court. The same article points out how the make-up of the court — conservative […]
After Sonia Sotomayor mentioned that as a child she loved watching Perry Mason on TV, and that it inspired her interest in the law, (new Senator) Al Franken got some laughs with his observation: It amazes me that you wanted to become a prosecutor based on the show, because in ‘Perry Mason’ the prosecutor on […]
It is part of the game of politics that Republicans will attack Judge Sotomayor — heck, they attacked Obama’s nominee even before he announced who it was — but for Jeff Sessions, it is not a game, it’s personal. But the Republicans should know that when an attack gets personal, people make mistakes. And Senator […]
We’ve had two very good examples recently of something that, when taken out of context, causes a vastly different reaction than if it is taken in context: Example One: Is Obama just a guy? Last week, a photograph flashed across the internet, which appears to show Obama checking something out: This photo is pretty funny; […]
The confirmation hearings for Sonia Sotomayor begin today in the Senate. The politics will be intense, as Republicans attempt to attack Sotomayor without appearing to be racist and thus anger Latinos. Much noise is going to be made about “identity politics“, especially Sotomayor’s comment in 2001: I would hope that a wise Latina woman with […]
This morning at LaGuardia airport in New York City, on her way to Congressional meetings in DC, Sonia Sotomayor tripped and fractured her right ankle. My question is, does this mean that in the future she will be leaning more to the right or more to the left?
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I can’t resist a good pun: © Steve Breen
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© Clay Bennett A survey shows that the GOP attacks on Sotomayor are more damaging to the GOP itself than to Sotomayor or Obama.
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This clip from Rachel Maddow’s show is a full meal of irony and hypocrisy. The appetizer is Newt Gingrich calling Sonia Sotomayor a racist, followed by him issuing a non-retraction retraction. The main course is Manuel Miranda, who is leading the effort to get Republicans to filibuster the confirmation of Sotomayor. Ironically, Miranda founded the […]
Just after meeting one-on-one with nominee Sonia Sotomayor, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Jeff Sessions, announced that he would like to delay the Supreme Court confirmation hearings until September. Some have theorized that conservatives want the delay because the recent murder of abortion doctor George Tiller will make it difficult for them […]
One of the complaints that conservatives like to throw at judges they don’t like is that they are “activist judges” who “legislate from the bench”. They seem to use it as an all-purpose insult, even when it doesn’t apply. An excellent example of this is Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor. When conservatives […]
