foxnews.com - 7/14/2009
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The Senate confirmation hearing of Sonia Sotomayor took a decidedly partisan turn Tuesday as Judiciary Committee Republicans held her feet to the fire with tough questions about her past rulings and statements -- as Democrats tried to help her find answers. After declaring that a "wise Latina" ...
powerlineblog.com - 7/14/2009
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powerlineblog.com —
Pat Leahy opened the questioning of Judge Sonia
Sotomayor by asking her some softball questions about her...
controversial speeches and decisions. In response, Sotomayor's characterization of her "wise Latina" speech was strikingly disingenuous: I ...
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Sotomayor's Nose Grows Longer
prospect.org - 7/13/2009
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prospect.org —
SESSIONS: JUDGE SOTOMAYOR IS A RACIST. Jeff Sessions
began his statement by saying he hoped the confirmation...
hearings would be "the best we've ever had," before launching into a laundry list of terms being used by conservative activists to discredit ...
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TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 7/14/2009
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As The Ticket often does, in addition to
our own take on politics and events, we are...
providing a complete transcript here for those interested in reading the political participants' own words in full. Here's Part 1 of the transcript of the second ...
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Sotomayor hearings: The complete transcript, Part 1
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Self Proclaimed "Wise Latina", Um I Didn't Mean What I Actually Said
Ace of Spades HQ —
Self Proclaimed "Wise Latina", Um I Didn't Mean What I Actually Said Senator Jeff Sessions took off after Sotomayor on her "Wise Latina" remark. Sotomayor's defense was to simply claim that despite saying it several time (7 by Sessions' count) it turns out she didn't mean it . "My play on those words fell flat. It was bad," Sotomayor told Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, trying to defend her 2001 speech in which she suggested a "wise Latina" would usually reach better conclusions than a white man without similar experiences. "I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gendered ...
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Knowledge is Power —
seriamente?
Then:
“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 has not lived that life,” Sotomayor had said in her 2001 remarks.
Now:
“My play on those words fell flat. It was bad,”
...meant only to to “inspire them to believe that their life experiences would enrich the legal system” and not to suggest that any one group was ...
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