Anti-Abortion Kooks Interrupt Sotomayor Hearing

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Here we go; the extreme wing of the anti-abortion movement has been whipping itself into a lather over Sonia Sotomayor, and they apparently managed to sneak at least two people into the hearing: Second Antiabortion Heckler Interrupts Sotomayor Hearing.

Another antiabortion activist disrupted the confirmation hearing of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, yelling, “Abortion is murder!” in both English and Spanish.

Wearing a red polo shirt and a pony tail, he was escorted out of the room by Capitol Police after interrupting the statement of Sen. Richard Durbin (D., Ill.).

Again Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.) banged his gavel, shouting, “You are guests of the Senate! Everybody here is the guest of the Senate. Judge Sotomayor deserves the respect to be heard. The senators have the respect to be heard.”

An earlier heckler interrupted the opening statement of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) by yelling, “Senator, what about the unborn? Abortion is murder!”

Theocrat anti-abortion activist Randall Terry issued a statement that any politicians who vote in favor of Sotomayor will have “blood on their hands.”

UPDATE at 7/14/09 12:20:22 pm:

Here’s the live video stream from senate.gov:

[Live video moved to more recent thread…]

My problem watching this hearing is that I keep dozing off during the long questions full of meandering digressions and self-aggrandizing statements.

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