Comments on: SCOTUS: Sotomayor Hearings, Day One, Part I http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/13/scotus-sotomayor-hearings-day-one-part-i/ Dip your toe in the legal waters and change politics as you know it. http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:06:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: tbsa http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/13/scotus-sotomayor-hearings-day-one-part-i/comment-page-2/#comment-15512 tbsa Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:20:18 +0000 http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/13/scotus-sotomayor-hearings-day-one-part-i/#comment-15512 <p>What the fuck does he call Scalito and Roberts?</p> What the fuck does he call Scalito and Roberts?

]]> By: BlueCrow http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/13/scotus-sotomayor-hearings-day-one-part-i/comment-page-2/#comment-15412 BlueCrow Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:56:49 +0000 http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/13/scotus-sotomayor-hearings-day-one-part-i/#comment-15412 <p>Leahy’s lie:</p> <p>“This is a nation based on the rule of law.”</p> Leahy’s lie:

“This is a nation based on the rule of law.”

]]> By: kevsters http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/13/scotus-sotomayor-hearings-day-one-part-i/comment-page-2/#comment-15405 kevsters Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:34:58 +0000 http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/13/scotus-sotomayor-hearings-day-one-part-i/#comment-15405 <p>We should all be ready for some fireworks. If not from Congress, certainly from the misogynistic right.</p> <p>Here is a perfect example of women haters starting the cannon fodder. </p> <p><a href="http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=2144" rel="nofollow">http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=2144</a></p> We should all be ready for some fireworks. If not from Congress, certainly from the misogynistic right.

Here is a perfect example of women haters starting the cannon fodder.

http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=2144

]]> By: tejanarusa http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/13/scotus-sotomayor-hearings-day-one-part-i/comment-page-2/#comment-15404 tejanarusa Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:28:57 +0000 http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/13/scotus-sotomayor-hearings-day-one-part-i/#comment-15404 <p>Argh - just heard a clip on the npr show Here and Now - sounded like Lindsey Graham - claiming that PRLDEF is extremely liberal and far out, and goinng on to say, “<strong>if we ever get a conservative president….</strong>and he nominates someone with equal passion.” they’ll be treated fairly.</p> <p>Is he aware that it’s only be, oh, six months since we got RID of 8 yrs of conservative pres and his ridiculously right-wing judicial nominees? gaaag.</p> Argh – just heard a clip on the npr show Here and Now – sounded like Lindsey Graham – claiming that PRLDEF is extremely liberal and far out, and goinng on to say, “if we ever get a conservative president….and he nominates someone with equal passion.” they’ll be treated fairly.

Is he aware that it’s only be, oh, six months since we got RID of 8 yrs of conservative pres and his ridiculously right-wing judicial nominees? gaaag.

]]> By: Raven http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/13/scotus-sotomayor-hearings-day-one-part-i/comment-page-2/#comment-15396 Raven Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:58:55 +0000 http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/13/scotus-sotomayor-hearings-day-one-part-i/#comment-15396 <p>Whitehouse coming up in a bit on MSNBC</p> Whitehouse coming up in a bit on MSNBC

]]> By: RevDeb http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/13/scotus-sotomayor-hearings-day-one-part-i/comment-page-2/#comment-15325 RevDeb Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:33:10 +0000 http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/13/scotus-sotomayor-hearings-day-one-part-i/#comment-15325 <p>I know what he was saying and why. I’d just like to see someone nominated who was an unapologetic liberal for once. I don’t need judicial modesty, I want a champion for the people.</p> <p>My fondest dream was the scenario on West Wing in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLAaAZZNNiw&feature=related" rel="nofollow">The Supremes</a></p> I know what he was saying and why. I’d just like to see someone nominated who was an unapologetic liberal for once. I don’t need judicial modesty, I want a champion for the people.

My fondest dream was the scenario on West Wing in The Supremes

]]> By: demi http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/13/scotus-sotomayor-hearings-day-one-part-i/comment-page-2/#comment-15320 demi Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:30:36 +0000 http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/13/scotus-sotomayor-hearings-day-one-part-i/#comment-15320 <p>The way I heard it, he was arguing against so manys fears that she is biased FOR Latinas, and was making a point that she will look at the Law fairly and not from a biased point of view. I could be wrong, though. That’s what I was hearing at any rate.</p> The way I heard it, he was arguing against so manys fears that she is biased FOR Latinas, and was making a point that she will look at the Law fairly and not from a biased point of view. I could be wrong, though. That’s what I was hearing at any rate.

]]> By: Elliott http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/13/scotus-sotomayor-hearings-day-one-part-i/comment-page-2/#comment-15315 Elliott Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:28:16 +0000 http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/13/scotus-sotomayor-hearings-day-one-part-i/#comment-15315 <p><a href="http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/13/scotus-sotomayor-hearings-day-one-part-ii/" rel="nofollow">Liveblog Part II upstairs</a></p> Liveblog Part II upstairs

]]> By: TexBetsy http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/13/scotus-sotomayor-hearings-day-one-part-i/comment-page-2/#comment-15314 TexBetsy Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:26:22 +0000 http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/13/scotus-sotomayor-hearings-day-one-part-i/#comment-15314 <p>Have we just entered an alternate universe?</p> Have we just entered an alternate universe?

]]> By: Zombiebirdhouse http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/13/scotus-sotomayor-hearings-day-one-part-i/comment-page-2/#comment-15313 Zombiebirdhouse Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:26:07 +0000 http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/13/scotus-sotomayor-hearings-day-one-part-i/#comment-15313 <p>Good. I hoped that I had misheard that. I thought he seemed to be bragging about how she ruled for the government over immigrants 93% of the time.</p> Good. I hoped that I had misheard that. I thought he seemed to be bragging about how she ruled for the government over immigrants 93% of the time.

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