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Live-ish Blogging: Soto Hearings, Day 3, Part 2
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We're back from break with newly Democratic Senator Arlen Specter. The Wise Latina Drinking Game is officially out of control. We just hauled 3 supermodels out of here on stretchers to get their stomachs pumped. Kate Moss is practically in a coma because she opted to snort coke each time the Heller case was mentioned. And I am still plugging through Hour 15.
Sens. Leahy and Specter sound old. Really old. So when Specter equated the dust up over the Wise Latina with "making a mountain out of a mole hill," it lacked the oomph that it otherwise might have had if his jowls hadn't muffled it. Sounds a little like Nixon. Anyway, he is pretty abrupt with her. Wanted to know explicitly if she thought the court should take on more cases. When she balked, he interrupted her and moved onto a new question. He's very concerned about judicial deference to Congress. Christ. Inflated Ego Alert! He also enunciated her name as "soto-may-or" as opposed to "soto-my-your." Welcome to the Democratic Party, Arlen.
Next up Democratic Senator Al Franken's first round of 30 minutes. He makes a funny joke (albeit not entirely accurate) about why, if she loved Perry Mason so much, would she go and be a prosecutor when the prosecutor on Perry Mason lost all the time (turns out Perry Mason lost 3 times )? She laughs. He basically says it's because she likes to defy the odds. True dat. He then went on to ask Sonia her thoughts on protecting the Internet as protected First Amendment speech. She iterated that it really was a matter of Congressional intent around specific legislation pertaining to regulating the Internet and what matter comes before the court.
That finishes our 30 minutes by each of the Judiciary Committee members.
Confirmation fun fact: The Supreme Court has had 38 opportunities to overturn Roe v. Wade since it was decided and yet it has not, despite its current conservative bent.
[/caption]We're back from break with newly Democratic Senator Arlen Specter. The Wise Latina Drinking Game is officially out of control. We just hauled 3 supermodels out of here on stretchers to get their stomachs pumped. Kate Moss is practically in a coma because she opted to snort coke each time the Heller case was mentioned. And I am still plugging through Hour 15.
Sens. Leahy and Specter sound old. Really old. So when Specter equated the dust up over the Wise Latina with "making a mountain out of a mole hill," it lacked the oomph that it otherwise might have had if his jowls hadn't muffled it. Sounds a little like Nixon. Anyway, he is pretty abrupt with her. Wanted to know explicitly if she thought the court should take on more cases. When she balked, he interrupted her and moved onto a new question. He's very concerned about judicial deference to Congress. Christ. Inflated Ego Alert! He also enunciated her name as "soto-may-or" as opposed to "soto-my-your." Welcome to the Democratic Party, Arlen.
Next up Democratic Senator Al Franken's first round of 30 minutes. He makes a funny joke (albeit not entirely accurate) about why, if she loved Perry Mason so much, would she go and be a prosecutor when the prosecutor on Perry Mason lost all the time (turns out Perry Mason lost 3 times )? She laughs. He basically says it's because she likes to defy the odds. True dat. He then went on to ask Sonia her thoughts on protecting the Internet as protected First Amendment speech. She iterated that it really was a matter of Congressional intent around specific legislation pertaining to regulating the Internet and what matter comes before the court.
That finishes our 30 minutes by each of the Judiciary Committee members.
Confirmation fun fact: The Supreme Court has had 38 opportunities to overturn Roe v. Wade since it was decided and yet it has not, despite its current conservative bent.
