Sotomayor hearings begin. Tuned in?
Sonia Sotomayor
WASHINGTON — Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., isn’t wasting time in the early moments of the Senate Judiciary Committe’s hearings on Sonia Sotomayor and the Supreme Court, contending that her nomination is “another step down the road to a liberal, activist” court.
Sessions, the committee’s ranking Republican, used his opening statement to reel off her cases Republicans are expected to focus on, including the Ricci v. DeStefano firefighters’ decision from Connecticut recently overturned by the Supreme Court.
Sessions said Sotomayor’s philosophy on the bench suggests an approach to judging in which ”the umpire is not neutral … It’s more akin to politics and has no place in the courtroom.”
Moments before, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the committee chairman, appealed for “a respectful tone, thoughtful dialogue” in the hearings, which are expected to proceed most of the week.
Recalling the hearings of Ronald Reagan’s appointment of former justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Leahy said: “There, every Democrat and every Republican voted to confirm her.”
Think that will happen with Sotomayor?
There’s a lot at stake this week even though Sotomayor’s confirmation appears certain barring something dramatic.
Will Sotomayor make a good showing, justifying the faith that President Barack Obama and Democrats have vested in her?
Will Republicans go after her hard in hopes of rallying their base? Might they be risking backlash from the increasingly muscled Hispanic vote?
Will we get a clear sense of how the court’s newest member might be looking at emotion-packed issues such as abortion, affirmative action and guns?
Already, the proceedings have been interrupted twice by outbursts (from the audience, not from senators.)
If you’re tuned in, tell us what you think.
prediction…
Democrats - 2 …
repuplikans - 0 …
Sonia Sotomayor wins confirmation…
and repuplikans further alienate the Hispanic community with their arrogant, pompous, condescending questions.
a big win for the Democratic party and the American people.
kwmu should put hearings on main station, regular programming on backup; not many people have good access to digital or convenience to internet; and as an added plus, any time Diane Rehms drivel is preempted, listenship and contributions go up; her substitutes are good tho; she’s just ignorant and cloying, and mean to her husband and callers; she’s an institution but so is Bellvue; didnt enjoy that either.
SONIA SOTOMAYOR SHALL BE AN ASSET TO THE U.S. SUPREME COURT.
SOTOMAYOR IS BRILLIANT.
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SCANDALS! SCANDALS! SCANDALS!
DANGER! DANGER! DANGER!
GEORGE W. BUSH IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CRIMINAL STALKER!
“In her suit, Margie Schoedinger states that George W. Bush committed sexual crimes against her, organized harassment and moral pressure on her, her family members and close relatives and friends. As Schoedinger said, she was strongly recommended to keep her mouth shut. . . . Furthermore, she alleges that George Bush ordered to show pressure on her to the point, when she commits suicide” (go to Google, type “blog of drizzten Margie Schoedinger,” and hit “Enter”).
“George [Bush is personally complicit] in the death (murder to be precise) of my friend Margie Schoedinger in September of 2003. Determining the exact whereabouts and contacts of . . . George Bush on September 21 thru 22, 2003, should be entirely lacking in difficulty” (Leola McConnell—Nevada Progressive Democratic Candidate for U.S. Senate in 2010).
McConnell is correct: Bush applying pressure (continuously criminally stalking Margie Schoedinger) purposefully to force Schoedinger to commit suicide does in fact constitute murder where it culminated in her death.
Bush’s method of murdering Schoedinger cannot exist in a vacuum: he must have murdered other people in the same way.
During Bush’s presidency, of course Bush would have desired to kill people whom he hated or get them out of his way. Insofar as Bush was clearly capable of murdering Schoedinger—even in “broad daylight”—and is clearly capable of getting away with it, in consideration of common sense and the laws of human nature, Bush of course murdered numerous people in the disgusting way he murdered Schoedinger. One can examine public information; in various situations where people who sought to oppose or disadvantage Bush ever so frighteningly ended up “committing suicide”—specifically—Bush murdered them just like he murdered Schoedinger. For example, Bush murdered James Howard Hatfield by continuously criminally stalking Hatfield to the point that Hatfield could not get away from it—purposefully to force Hatfield to commit suicide—and Hatfield committed suicide in desperation to escape. However, the vast majority of such scandalous cases will never come out (the grisly details are typically hard to substantiate). A prosecutor really can lawfully charge a former president with murdering one or more people in the disgusting way Bush murdered Schoedinger. The American people unfortunately live in a world where evil presidents can murder any number of people—figuratively—with a wave of a magic wand and get away with it.
(There are thousands of copies of the information above on the Internet. Please feel free to go to any major search engine, type “GEORGE W. BUSH IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CRIMINAL STALKER” or “George W. Bush continuously criminally stalked Margie Schoedinger to the point that she could not get away from it, and she committed suicide in desperation to escape: he murdered her” or “George W. Bush applying pressure (continuously criminally stalking Margie Schoedinger) purposefully to force Schoedinger to commit suicide does in fact constitute murder where it culminated in her death” or “George W. Bush murdered James Howard Hatfield by continuously criminally stalking Hatfield to the point that Hatfield could not get away from it—purposefully to force Hatfield to commit suicide—and Hatfield committed suicide in desperation to escape,” hit “Enter,” and readily find hundreds of copies.)
(Please feel free to go to Google, type “GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY blog of Andrew Wang,” and hit “Enter.”)
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Andrew Wang
(a.k.a. “THE DISSEMINATING MACHINE”)
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993