TagsTagsThe Rick Perry Brain Freeze Syndrome strikes again in an interview with the Des Moines Register, as he forgets the name of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, then attacks the "8 unelected judges" on the Supreme Court, which has 9 judges. Rick Perry is the new heir to the throne of ...
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To no one’s surprise, the Senate has voted to confirm Sonia Sotomayor’s appointment to the Supreme Court, making her the third female justice in US history.
Word is just coming across the wires that the Senate Judiciary Panel has approved Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court...
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham now says he’s going to support Sonia Sotomayor. WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says he’ll vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, breaking with his party’s conservative leaders. The South Carolinian had hinted during Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings that he might back President Barack Obama’s first high ...
Sen. Jeff Sessions (who has no earlobes, by the way) says the GOP won’t block the vote on Sotomayor’s nomination. Shortly before the committee concluded its questioning of Sotomayor, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the panel’s senior GOP member, told Sotomayor he would “look forward to you getting that vote” by ...
As we round the corner into day four of the Sotomayor confirmation hearings, even the Republicans on the committee are beginning to admit that they’ve got nothing. We’ve reached a point, here on Day 4 of the Sonia Sotomayor hearings, where some Republicans have acknowledged that when they sift through ...
The latest Rasmussen poll shows 90% of voters expect Sonia Sotomayor to be confirmed. Following the first two days of confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor, voters overwhelmingly expect her to be confirmed for the U.S. Supreme Court but remain divided as to whether she should be. Ninety percent (90%) now ...
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Day three of the Sotomayor confirmation hearings has begun; here’s our live feed from Senate.gov, as the Republicans on the panel continue hammering away (a futile endeavor) at the “wise Latina” remark, and try to back Sotomayor into a corner on the abortion issue. [Live video moved to more recent post...] ...
Here’s MSNBC’s video of Lindsey Graham grilling Sonia Sotomayor over her “wise Latina” comment in a speech to Duke University students. [Video]
Andrew Malcolm and associates have been doing a great job of live-blogging the Sotomayor hearing at Top of the Ticket, including posting transcripts of Sen. Jon Kyl’s rambling, digressing, endless questions, which is above and beyond the call of duty: Sotomayor hearings: Graham comes out swinging. Here’s the live video stream ...
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, ...
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Here’s a live stream of the Sotomayor confirmation hearing; so far I still haven’t seen the evidence that she’s a sekrit radical judicial activist... [Live video moved to most recent post...]
If you think Sonia Sotomayor is a judicial activist and radical leftist, you’re not going to find evidence for it in her opening statement: Sotomayor hearings: The judge’s own opening statement. In the past month, many Senators have asked me about my judicial philosophy. It is simple: fidelity to the ...
Oh boy! Several days of political grandstanding and opportunistic pandering, masquerading as a “confirmation hearing!” I know you’re as excited as I am. Andrew Malcolm has the opening statements from the usual raft of blowhards: Sotomayor hearing: All senators’ opening statement texts: Leahy, Sessions, et al.
Charles Krauthammer on The Meaning of the Ricci Case. The major conundrum of the civil rights age remains. The 14th Amendment bans discrimination on the basis of race. But the Civil Rights Act, which bans “disparate impact” discrimination — procedures (such as exams) that yield racially unbalanced results — affirmatively ...
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The Supreme Court has overturned an appeals court decision made by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, ruling that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn. were unfairly denied promotions due to their race: Ricci Decision Provides Rallying Point for Opposition. Conservatives are jumping all over today’s Supreme Court decision that ...
Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, Discrimination, Saudi Arabia, 9/11
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor tripped while walking through LaGuardia Airport this morning, and fractured her ankle. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor was taken to George Washington University Medical Center in the District this morning for X-rays of her right ankle after stumbling at the La Guardia airport in New ...
Today, Sonia Sotomayor held a series of private meetings with high-ranking Democrats and Republicans, from which some interesting comments are emerging. Sotomayor, who would be the high court’s first Hispanic and its third woman, told senators she would follow the law as a judge without letting her life experiences inappropriately ...
Peggy Noonan would like the GOP to Play Grown-Up. So would I. We need at least two functioning parties in this country in order for our politics to work correctly, and right now one of them seems to be in permanent tantrum mode. “Let’s play grown-up.” When I was a child, ...
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The Wall Street Journal’s Washington Wire has made available audio recordings of Sonia Sotomayor in action in the Ricci v. DeStefano case. I’ve included the audio files below: [Audio] [Audio] Seventeen white and two Hispanic firefighters in New Haven, Conn., scored high enough on a test to win promotion, but the city ...
Senator John Cornyn is criticizing Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich for labeling Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor a “racist.” (CNN) — A top Senate Republican is taking aim at recent statements from conservative commentators Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich suggesting Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is a “racist.” “I think it’s ...
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BusinessWeek analyzes Sonia Sotomayor’s record, and concludes that she’s A Moderate on Business Issues. Federal Appellate Judge Sonia Sotomayor, nominated May 26 by President Barack Obama to the U.S. Supreme Court, has earned a centrist reputation in business cases: In 1995, she sided with Major League Baseball players in a ...
Looks like there’s not going to be a fight to the finish over Sonia Sotomayor: Sonia Sotomayor ‘fight’ could fizzle. Top Senate Republican strategists tell POLITICO that, barring unknown facts about Judge Sonia Sotomayor, the GOP plans no scorched-earth opposition to her confirmation as a Supreme Court justice. More than 24 ...
DrewM. at Ace of Spades thinks something has happened to me: Charles seems genuinely confused that some people might actually say out loud they don’t want Sotomayor confirmed to the Supreme Court. Uh, no, that’s not my point at all. (But I don’t expect careful reasoning from the Ace of ...
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