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Graham Will Support Sotomayor

By | 07.22.09 | 3:24 pm

As might have been predicted from the tone of his questioning toward the end of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearing last week, Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) came out in her support this afternoon.

“I feel this is the right vote for me, and quite frankly, for the country,” Graham More…

The Week’s First Fake Controversy

By | 07.20.09 | 3:46 pm

You almost have to admire Steve Krakauer’s ability to turn this CNN interview with President Obama into a “possible wise Latina moment.” The president, in Africa, thought out loud about being an African-American, and how he knows African-Americans who come to the continent and feel more American than More…

Your Pat Buchanan Quote of the Day

By | 07.17.09 | 10:30 am

From his new column, which merges his distaste for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor and his obsession with non-white birth rates:

Wise Latina women have more babies north of the border than they do in Mexico and twice as many here as American women. As almost all immigrants are

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In Context, Sotomayor’s ‘Wise Latina’ Remark Is Hardly Shocking

By | 07.14.09 | 5:23 pm

The endlessly repeated remark that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor made in speeches and law review articles that she “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” More…

Sotomayor: That ‘Wise Latina’ Remark Was ‘A Bad Idea’

By | 07.14.09 | 3:54 pm

Under intense grilling from Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) this afternoon, Judge Sonia Sotomayor was forced to confront directly her words in various speeches to minority law students over the past two decades in which she said that gender and ethnicity can affect how a judge views a case, and may More…

‘Here’s Your Chance!’

By | 07.14.09 | 10:08 am

After a short back-and-forth on criminal law, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) used his friendly fire time to ask Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor about her “wise Latina” speeches, preceding the question with some attacks on conservatives who used those speeches to call Sotomayor a racist.

“No words I have ever More…

Why So Subtle, Jeff Sessions?

By | 07.13.09 | 10:31 am

What a difference a chairman makes. When he ran the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Arlen Specter (then-R-, now-D-Pa.) dealt in a genteel manner with hot-button issues. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is firing the culture war cannon as fast as he can load it. America’s “traditional system” is under threat. The Court More…

National Review on Sotomayor Cover: ‘She Has Squinty Eyes’

By | 07.10.09 | 3:48 pm

It went largely without notice, but in its last issue (with the “Beauty of Drilling” cover), National Review’s editors responded to criticism over its “Wise Latina” cover of Sonia Sotomayor, which portrayed the judge as a Buddha. In “The Week,” the front-of-the-book roundup of news, editors made fun of More…

LedeFAIL

By | 06.08.09 | 2:22 pm

Jennifer Rubin’s Weekly Standard cover story on Sonia Sotomayor takes the Marvel No-Prize for nonsensical lede-writing.

Not since Rose Mary Woods made “18″ famous has a number so absorbed the attention of the media and political establishment. But with President Barack Obama’s nomination of Second Circuit judge Sonia Sotomayor

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