All posts tagged "Sotomayor"

The countdown to the new year in Times Square is getting some high-profile help from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. The organizers of the annual celebration said Sunday that Sotomayor will lead the final 60-second countdown and push the ceremonial button to signal the descent of the Times Square New Year's Eve ball. The giant New Year's Eve ball is covered in more than 2,600 crystal triangles and lit from within by more than 32,000 lights.

A US fugitive charged with swindling several nuns has been arrested in Las Vegas after more than three months on the run, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation said.

Via Atrios, Craig Crawford shoots and scores, when discussing the reprehensible behavior of Senate Republicans towards Sonia Sotomayor, particularly Lindsay Graham's.

The Women's Media Center put together a devastating video showing how much the "criticism" against Sotomayor is just dredging up fears about white men losing complete dominance over the official seats of power.

[rebelmouse-image 24748844 original_size="460x288" expand=1]Confession: I haven't had the stomach to flip on the TV and watch the Sotomayor hearings, because I have so little tolerance for the charade that there's no such as fundamental political differences that inform the process. Judges pretending they don't have opinions, Republican Senators pretending they have any intention of actually considering Sotomayor's qualifications and basing their votes on that, the fundamental bullshit underlying the process in general annoys me to no end. I've been following the online text-based coverage and the tweets from my tweeps with stronger stomachs than mine, but the urge to keep C-SPAN shut off all day has won out.

Republicans are angered beyond belief, friends, because they only have five weeks to read over all of Sotomayor's opinions.