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...
View ArticleSotomayor 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...
View ArticleSotomayor, 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...
View ArticleSotomayor, 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...
View ArticleLindsey 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...
View ArticleRichard 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...
View ArticleSotomayor, 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleNRA 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...
View ArticleThe Big Picture: Abortion, Health, and Justice
The careers of both Sonia Sotomayor and Regina Benjamin constitute an important reframing of the old abortion debate.
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleSure, 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...
View ArticleLindsey 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...
View ArticleSotomayor 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.
View ArticleRepublicans 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...
View ArticleSotomayor, 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...
View ArticleSotomayor 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...
View ArticleWe 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...
View ArticleSenate 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:
View ArticleBreaking: 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.
View ArticleGOP 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...
View ArticleHistory 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...
View ArticleBoston: 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...
View ArticleMcCain'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...
View ArticleMAD 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...
View ArticleSotamayor 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,...
View ArticleYou 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...
View ArticleConservatives 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...
View ArticleJournalism, 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...
View ArticlePolitical 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...
View ArticleSotomayor, 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...
View ArticleBREAKING: 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...
View ArticleFighting 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...
View ArticleI'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...
View ArticleThe 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.”
View ArticleSCOTUS 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...
View ArticleIn 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,...
View ArticleSonia 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...
View ArticleSotomayor 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...
View ArticleSCOTUS: 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...
View ArticleSupreme 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...
View ArticleSonia 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...
View ArticleJustice 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...
View ArticleSupreme 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...
View ArticleSotomayor 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...
View ArticleGorsuch’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....
View ArticleWhat’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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