Bloviating Gasbag (R-Alabama)
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), seeking to discredit Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s judicial philosophy, cited her 2001 “wise Latina” speech, and contrasted the view that ethnicity and sex influence judging with that of Judge Miriam Cedarbaum, who “believes that judges must transcend their personal sympathies and prejudices.”
“So I would just say to you, I believe in Judge Cedarbaum’s formulation,” Sessions told Sotomayor.
“My friend Judge Cedarbaum is here,” Sotomayor riposted, to Sessions’ apparent surprise. “We are good friends, and I believe that we both approach judging in the same way, which is looking at the facts of each individual case and applying the law to those facts.”
Cedarbaum agreed.
“I don’t believe for a minute that there are any differences in our approach to judging, and her personal predilections have no effect on her approach to judging,” she told Washington Wire. “We’d both like to see more women on the courts,” she added.
Open mouth, insert foot.
UPDATE:
Here’s some video:
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The Confluence 
To Senator Sessions – Sucks to be you…
One of his aides will be catching hell for not knowing that Sotomayor and Cedarbaum are pals.
Figures. For these guys it ALWAYS someone elses fault, not their own.
I’ve watched segments of the hearings today. At times SS seemed to be a little defensive and maybe juggling what was behind the questions. But I would say it is all falling into place.
I think this was upstaged by the news about the House health care bill and the plans to pay for it with a surtax on the rich, starting with families making $350 k.
Now that we actually have a house bill perhaps we can get closer to discovering the details of how we are going to be screwed. So cynical, sorry.
LMAO! Go, women! Glad they stuck up for each other. 🙂
Sessions got punk’d by a Wise Latina.
I just posted the same quote on the live blog, not knowing you had done a post, myiq. That was a great moment. I wish I’d seen it.
Here’s another good one:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/14/sessions-sotomayor-prldef/
More like spread ’em, insert head.
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