Video: In the Supreme Court Nominee Hearings, Justices Alito and Roberts were so much better than Judge Sotomayor

Yep. That's what Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) thinks. All I got is alrighty then.

Video: Senator Franken questions Judge Sotomayor regarding Internet regulation

Video: Senator Franken questions Judge Sotomayor

Day One: Opening Statements and Glenn Beck

Do you know the difference between 'opening statements' and 'questioning'? I do. I bet you do too. Glenn Beck doesn't.

Sometimes when I watch these kinds of clips, I feel like I am in middle school again. Making drama out of absolutely nothing.

I also don't believe that the United States of America is burning to the ground. Not yet at least.

Oh and the questioning begins today.

Think Progress:

Your Weekly Radio Address

From The White House Blog:

Friday, May 29th, 2009 at 11:59 pm

Weekly Address: The Experience of Judge Sotomayor

The President discusses the breadth and depth of experience held by his nominee for the Supreme Court. In the course of a life that began in a housing project in the South Bronx and brought her to the pinnacle of her profession, Judge Sonia Sotomayor accumulated more experience on the federal bench than any incoming Supreme Court Justice in the past 100 years, touching nearly every aspect of our legal system.



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La Raza, the "Latino KKK without the hoods or the nooses"?

Republican Tom Tancredo, has been on television telling us all how bad Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court is because of membership in La Raza, which Tancredo decries is a racist Hispanic organization, referring to La Raza as the "Latino KKK without the hoods or the nooses".

But as this video of both President Bush and John McCain publicly praising La Raza illustrates, the only comparison involving the KKK that Tancredo should make is between himself and a Grand Wizard. source: Jed Lewison at DK

To be fair, Mr. Tancredo isn't the only one making extreme claims about Judge Sotomayor.

Via Think Progress (by way of BarbMD at DK):

SHUSTER: Mr. Tancredo, do you agree that the Obama administration hates white people?

TANCREDO: Oh [sighs], I don’t know. But I’ll tell you this –

SHUSTER: You don’t know? In other words, they might?

TANCREDO: What do I — I have no idea whether they hate white people or not!

There's also G. Gordon Liddy.

He calls her a racist too. Keep it up guys.

LIDDY: Let’s hope that the key conferences aren’t when she’s menstruating or something or just before she’s going to menstruate. That would really be bad.... source: C & L

The Day in 100 Seconds

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Considering 'Life' when ruling on Supreme Court cases

Supreme Court Nominations: Creating a 'Hot Button Issue'

This was the closing paragraph from the post at Think Progress. I'm thinking it should be at the beginning for this post.

Remember, Tancredo is the lawmaker who called Miami a “third world country” because of the number of Latinos there, criticized presidential candidates for “pandering” by participating in a Spanish-language debate, and accused immigrants of “pushing drugs, raping kids, and destroying lives.” He said the issue of immigration is “whether we will survive.”

On The Ed Schultz Show, former Republican House member Tom Tancredo said that he doesn't care about the IQ of Judge Sotomayor, and he hasn't read any of the cases she ruled on, but because of remarks she made during a speech (the context of which brings a slightly different dimension to the words that Tancredo rattles off), she's a racist.

For more on the speech in question, see also below the video.

Creating a 'Hot Button Issue'

There is also analysis of the context of Judge Sotomayor's remarks that is being largely left out of this television discussion (because they can and nearly have to because of time constraints, commercials, and trying to talk over each other) which Media Matters addresses:

In fact, contrary to the suggestion that Sotomayor was commenting on the general judicial ability of Latinas and white men, Sotomayor was talking specifically about "race and sex discrimination cases." From Sotomayor's speech, delivered at the University of California-Berkeley School of Law and published in 2002 in the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal: read more here

Yesterday in 100 seconds

It is Tuesday, Breaking News, It is Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court Justice, The Nominee, I'm excited too, I've decided, inspiring woman, great Justice, I strive never to forget, real world consequences, ordinary person, opportunities and experiences, what a moment, only in America moment, very difficult, go after her, with her credentials, twofer, a woman and a Latina, gonna gun her down, tough target, Liberal jurist, compelling life story, Hispanic woman, I've always be pro-woman, lack of intellectual depth, summa cum laude, Editor of Yale Law Review, intellectual candle power, Republicans will oppose her at their peril, risen from poverty, is she an activist judge?, feeling above the rule of law, President Obama chose her, Judge Sotomayor saved baseball, warm consideration, It's Sonia

Here We Go: Not so smart?

It's really kind of funny after listening to it a couple of times. Or maybe it's absurd that I'm thinking of.

Video: The Sotomayer clip that 'may' come to bite her on the judicial hind end

Oh. I'm not worried though. We'll see this clip played over and over and over and over and over again.

Heck. It might be playing already. I haven't turned on the tv today yet.