Corey Sotomayor

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor 's confirmation hearings began Monday, and the results were intense and electrifying. Or not. The first day passed uneventfully with plenty of baseball analogies, no real questions for the nominee, and a general opinion that Sotomayor, barring some weird revelation, is going to sail through the confirmation. In short, it was boring. So you can't really blame her two young nephews, Corey and Conner Sotomayor , for dozing off during the hours-long snooze...Read Full Story

Written by Stephen Menendian and Brookes Hammock Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals is the nation’s first Latina nominated to the United States Supreme Court, and would be only the third woman to join that bench. Shortly after her nomination, in response to a speech Sotomayor made in which she claimed “that a wise Latina woman” would “reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life,” Rush Limbaugh and others called her a " reverse-racist...Read Full Story

Tom Bevan over at the RCP breathlessly reports (parroted, of course, by Lickspittle Drudge) on a new CNN showing that, after six months, more people rate the Obama administration as “a failure” than Bush’s at six months. Of course, I DEFY you to name a single initiative or accomplishment of Bush’s first six months… and “clearing brush at the Crawford Ranch” doesn’t count. One word for the neocons and wingnuts regarding Sonia Sotomayor’s 61-38 confirmation to be an associate justice on the...Read Full Story

By Andrew Grant-Thomas “During the campaign, [Obama] promised to nominate someone who's got the heart and the empathy to recognize what it's like to be a young, teenaged mom. The implication is that our judges today don't have that. Do you realize how astounding that is? The empathy to understand what it's like to be poor, to be African-American or gay or disabled or old…. I believe that standard is antithetical to the proper role of a judge. Judge Sotomayor… you must demonstrate that you...Read Full Story

The LA Times asked several successful Latinas to "assess" Sonia Sotomayor and the way Senators treated her during the Judicial Committee nominations hearings last week. All the woman surveyed had very poignant observations but I thought Josefina Lopez, author of the play/film "Real Women Have Curves", really put it out there: "Many people seem to assume that because Sonia Sotomayor's an ethnic woman, or because of the wise Latina comment, she's going to be biased. That's racist. They're...Read Full Story