Lunchtime Links

Sotomayor Hearings Toolbox: Here’s a live stream on C-SPAN with multiple cameras angles for interactive fun. The Wonk Room, SCOTUSblog, The Huffington Post’s Doug Kendall, and The Caucus are liveblogging Sotomayor’s hearings this week. Keep an eye on TWI’s Daphne Eviatar and David Weigel for updates all week, too.

Ezra Klein explains how California’s fiscal crisis mirrors the nation’s.

Potential senatorial switcheroos for the 2010 elections.

Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) sees reconciliation as the only route for health care passage.

Audra Shay’s election as Chairman of the Young Republicans is indicative of the G.O.P.’s move away from the “Party of Lincoln.”

The Treasury’s trouble with transparency.

Obama and Biden throw their weight behind Democratic gubernatorial candidates.

Glenn Greenwald tracks the events leading up to Goldman Sachs’ big profits.