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Maddow's Standup Double (And how it could've been a HR)

For those of you who haven't yet seen Rachel Maddow engage, confront and unravel Pat Buchanan on her show last night, you're missing out. The topic was Sonia Sotomayor and the nature of her...

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Sotomayor and Right-wing Silliness

  Reactionary senators like Jefferson Beauregard Sessions (R-AL) take a stand against confirming Sonia Sotomayor because she believes that life experiences can inform in a positive manner the ruling of...

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Sotomayor, the GOP and Latinos

I am sure a lot has been written of how the Sotomayor nomination and the blow back by the GOP has hurt the GOP's standing in the Hispanic/Latino community.I have a different viewpoint onto the whole...

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Sotomayor, sexism, social location, and social justice

I've been thinking a lot about the status of women in the U.S., religion and the world this week.I just looked for and couldn't find an image of the good old boys -- er, Senate Judiciary Committee, who...

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Lindsey Graham's Shocking Defense of Choice

Was Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) using yesterday's confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor as an opportunity to announce to the world that he has changed his mind on the issue...

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Richard Lugar Shows Sotomayor Some Hoosier Hospitality

Just wanted to post a short diary mentioning the fact that Richard Lugar has become the first Republican in the Senate to declare his support for (soon to be) Justice Sotomayor. Source. Being that I'm...

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Sotomayor, affirmative action and Test scores.

I have watched with great interest the events that have unfolded regarding Sotomayor's nomination and the case of the white fireman in New Haven, CT.  What irritates me most about the cases are the...

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The Sotomayor Experience

For reference: "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life." -  Judge...

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NRA leaders use same old, tired tactics on Sotomayor

Last month, on behalf of my organization, the American Hunters and Shooters Association (AHSA), I sent a letter to Senator Leahy endorsing the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor.  I maintained in the letter...

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The Big Picture: Abortion, Health, and Justice

The careers of both Sonia Sotomayor and Regina Benjamin constitute an important reframing of the old abortion debate.

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A Layman Attempts To Understand Wing-Nut Psychology - UPDATED

We've all been there.  In a debate on one blog or another with some right-wing ideologue, who seemingly lives in an alternate universe.  Facts presented to him or her are rejected out of hand, in favor...

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Sure, Sotomayor Will Get Confirmed...But By How Much?

By John Wilkes from Eyesonobama.com:With 17 painstakingly uncontroversial years on the federal bench, a lifetime of academic achievement, and most recently, a flawless performance before the Senate...

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Lindsey Graham will vote to confirm Sotomayor!

Well, it's official. The Republican party line on Sotomayor is being rejected not just by Democrats and independents, but even by high-profile Republicans. We recently learned that Republican Susan...

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Sotomayor push-poll audio

I grabbed my digital recorder as soon as I realized what this call was tonight. Doubt it has much significance, but I submit it to the wisdom of crowds.

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Republicans Display Their Racial Hatred at Sotomayor Hearings

The Senate confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor were a showcase of GOP racism and anti-Latino sentiment.  Playing to their base, the Republican senators on the judiciary committee who...

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Sotomayor, Affirmative Action and Dissonance - poll

After a week of watching the full frontal race-carding of Republican senators in the Sotomayor confirmation hearings, I have decided that it is not the election of Barack Obama that the history books...

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Mike Huckabee: Civil Rights Leader?

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Sotomayor sets the anti-choice movement back years, if not decades

For decades now, we have been living with 5 to 4 decisions by the Supreme Court. We typically acknowledge that court is divided into two factions: the liberal side of the court and the conservative...

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We White Men are now an infinitesimally oppressed, slightly less powerful...

This year the Supreme Court is off limits to a white, non-law-practicing male like myself. And the Presidency is now firmly in the hands of someone who lacks the comforting whiteness that I and my...

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Senate Republikkkons too cowardly to oppose Sotomayor in person

Over half the Senate Judiciary Committee Republikkkons who voted against Judge Sotomayor did not have the courage or the courtesy to vote in person.Puke.Now, read on:

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Breaking: McCain says No on Sotomayor; Arizona to Go Blue in Senate?

Did John McCain just signal he won't be seeking re-election in 2010?  He may as well have.

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GOP potentially kicks Latinos in face with Sotomayor vote

The Republican Party is rocking a dead baby with its never ending complaints that health care reform is just a socialist scheme, that stimulus funding isn't creating jobs, and how Judge Sotomayor is...

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History in the Making

Written by Marcia D. Greenberger, Co-President,  National Women's Law Center This week, the Senate will make history - the kind of history that makes our country proud. When the Senate confirms Judge...

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Boston: precedent found to fire racist e-mailing cop

Attorneys for the City of Boston believe they existing case law permits them to dismiss Officer Justin Barrett for sending racist e-mails to a Boston Globe columnist and members of his National Guard...

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McCain's hypocritical vote against Sotomayor

A number of comments congratulating Sonia Sotomayor on her confirmation as an Associate Supreme Court Justice have harangued Senator McCain for voting against Sotomayor's confirmation. They have...

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The Sotomayor Vote

All republicans voting nay of course.  Make those who voted no pay!!

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MAD Diary: As the Twig is Bent, the death of My American Dream.

"As the twig is bent, so the wound is set." is the phrase that I often use to describe my 'differentness'.  My 'bent' on life, my 'woundedness'. Sometimes I just don't have the strength to fight and I...

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Sotamayor and the right to cross-examine a forensic expert

I was stunned to learn that, until the recent Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts decision from the Supreme Court, that the testimony from a forensic expert could not be cross-examined in many states. So,...

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You won't change them, just outlive them.

They claim President Obama wasn't born in the US, so he can't be a legal president. They claim his speech to school children, exhorting them to learn and grow, is socialist indoctrination. They claim...

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Conservatives Whine, but Does it Work in the End? (with Poll)

If you're like me, you're probably pretty miffed about the Conservatard platform of "liar liar, let's light effigies on fire." But I am seeing something of a pattern in that RW campaigns usually end up...

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Journalism, Sotomayor and the Future of Democracy

There was a fascinating piece in the October issue of The Atlantic about the way the media reacted to the Sotomayor nomination and its impact on the future of journalism and even its impact on the...

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Political Impressions for the C-SPAN dorks - PART DEUX

Here's part two of the "Political Impressions for C-SPAN Dorks" video I put up yesterday. Feedback, suggestions and requests are all SINCERELY appreciated!My "One Man Rachel Maddow" show should be up...

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Sotomayor, Judiciary Committee, and Women's Suffrage

This year, 2010, marks the 90th anniversary of women's suffrage in the U. S. When the nation's founders excluded women from full citizenship rights in the 18th century, it can be said that the founding...

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BREAKING: Miranda decision, or why it sucks to be a JoSCOTUS

Entire decision viewable here.The question for the court was this: Does the accused have a right to no longer be interrogated because he has invoked his right to remain silent, simply by   refusing to...

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Fighting Racism when your mother forwards it to you!

Recently, I shared My Own Life in Politics at Booman Tribune and said that the topic of race had hardly come up in my traditional, conservative Southern white family. (I realize some of those words are...

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Ohio Will Determine Whether The Federal Courts Are Reopened To Citizens

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I'm with Them

In 2008 there was a Democratic faction calling themselves the PUMAs. I’m sure some of you remember. Hell, I’m sure some of you were among them. They staunchly supported Hillary Clinton and were irate...

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The Supreme Court Compromise

President Obama: “Give me one good reason why you won't consider my nomination of a  justice for the Supreme Court.”GOP: “Because this is America, and blacks don't get justice.”

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SCOTUS Rules that People Convicted of Domestic Violence Can't Purchase Guns

With all the excitement about the abortion rights ruling we missed the other good news out of SCOTUS today.  In the case of Voisine v. the United States, the United States Supreme Court handed down a...

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In one morning, Phoenix prosecutor sees five sentences reversed by Supreme Court

In a critical decision on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court gave five Arizona defendants the opportunity to have their sentences reconsidered, delivering a huge blow to Maricopa County's head prosecutor,...

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Sonia Shreds Gerrymandering with One Question

Surprised this hasn’t been diaried.In Tuesday’s oral arguments before the Supreme Court on Gill v. Whitford, (Wisconsin gerrymandering), the liberal justices and justice Kennedy were grilling the...

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Sotomayor Made the Pro-Gerrymander Lawyers Gibber

Slate’s Mark Stern provided enjoyable commentary about Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s contribution to last Tuesday’s oral arguments in Gill v. Whitford, the case examining the constitutional limits to...

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SCOTUS: When you sue abusive prison guards and win, the guards should get 25...

It was a three-box, four-opinion day at the Supreme Court, and the morning began with a case that showcased the Nine’s ideological split. You can expect that to happen frequently: Opinions are...

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Supreme Court creates broad protections for police shooters

A woman called 911 after noticing another woman hacking at a tree with a kitchen knife. Three police officers arrive; they spot the subject of the caller’s concern, Amy Hughes, standing in a yard...

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Sonia Sotomayor Accuses her conservatives colleagues of bending over for...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a scathing dissenting opinion on Friday, on the SCOTUS ruling that allows the trump administration to enforce the “public” charge rule against immigrants in the state of...

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Justice Sotomayor has to remind conservative peers they don't work for Trump

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor justifiably ripped her conservative peers to pieces for letting apparent allegiances to President Donald Trump cloud their judgment on the president’s latest...

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Supreme Court – Liar! Liar! Liar!

If lying under oath to the Senate during a confirmation hearing is grounds for impeachment and criminal charges, then at least the three Trump appointees to the Supreme Court should be removed and...

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Sotomayor sees possible trickle-down effects of abortion ban, and she's not...

When the Supreme Court ruled on Friday to allow a Texas ban on abortions after six weeks, many considered it early evidence of the high court's inclination to overturn the groundbreaking Roe v. Wade...

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Gorsuch’s refusal to wear a mask forces Sotomayor to work remotely

Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court convened in person for the first time since the omicron surge over the holidays. All the justices were now wearing masks — except for Justice Neil Gorsuch....

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What’s good for the goose is good for the gander

It has come to light that United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has used her staff to book speaking engagements and pressured people into purchasing copies of her books. Sotomayor has...

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