another pants wetting episode

he is SOOOOOOOOOOO effing funny

Stewart takes ‘anonymous’ revenge on GOP senator

By David Edwards

To the surprise of many observers, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) read anonymous comments about Judge Sotomayor in her confirmation hearing Tuesday.

“ABC’s World News and NBC’s Nightly News reported Lindsey Graham’s citation of anonymous criticism of Sonia Sotomayor published in the Almanac of the Federal Judiciary without noting that Sotomayor’s 2nd Circuit Court colleague reportedly called such criticism ’sexist,’” Media Matters complained.

The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart found some anonymous quotes from the Internet about Graham to read on the air Thursday.

Some choice examples:

“Lindsey Graham takes it up the cornhole.”
“He is a sad sack of shit and is an embarrassment to the state of South Carolina.”
“He’s such a white Southern pig racist idiot douchebag.”

The audience roared in laughter after Stewart also revealed that Graham is “actually featured on the ‘men who look like old lesbians dot blogspot site.’”....................

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cory at boing boing

points us to a judge who is judging a judge

i don't normally copy the WHOLE article i link to, but i did this time:


Senator Jeff Sessions, hypocritical racist moonbat
Posted by Cory Doctorow
A reader writes, "In his opening statement of the confirmation hearings for Sonia Sotomayor, Senator Jeff Sessions lectured the nominee about 'prejudice' in the legal system. The problem? He was rejected by the very same committee twenty years ago for 'racially insensitive' statements asserting that he thought that the Klan was OK until he found out they smoked 'dope' and calling white civil rights lawyers 'race traitors.' Here's a collection of the media coverage at the time scanned in on Flickr. [Ed: Scan above from Newsweek]"

Meet Jeff Sessions

yessssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!

for ONCE the RIGHT decision. now if only they would have ruled correctly in the connecticut douchebag case (although that wasn't the supreme court, it was the u.s. district court of appeals i believe). same thing though. a student's rights were grossly violated. different decision though. avery doninger LOST (how that could have happened, i don't know. we could ask sotomayor though. SHE was one of 'em who made that travesty of a judgement


Student Strip Search Illegal
School Violated Teen Girl's Rights, Supreme Court Rules

By Robert Barnes

Washington Post Staff Writer

Arizona school officials violated the constitutional rights of a 13-year-old girl when they strip-searched her on the suspicion she might be hiding ibuprofen in her underwear, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday. The decision put school districts on notice that such searches are "categorically distinct" from other efforts to combat illegal drugs.

In a case that had drawn attention from educators, parents and civil libertarians across the country, the court ruled 8 to 1 that such an intrusive search without the threat of a clear danger to other students violated the Constitution's protections against unreasonable search or seizure.

Justice David H. Souter, writing perhaps his final opinion for the court, said that in the search of Savana Redding, now a 19-year-old college student, school officials overreacted to vague accusations that Redding was violating school policy by possessing the ibuprofen, equivalent to two tablets of Advil.........

once again i'm stunned and speechless

then again, one must consider the source. he is a fucking ex-con (and i mean NO offense to ex-cons. truly i don't). he was convicted and did time. he was sentenced to 20 years, but got out after a few. i think 20 was too lenient.

Conservative radio host says he hopes Sotomayor menstruation doesn't affect judgment

A major conservative radio host, G. Gordon Liddy, attacked President Obama's Supreme Court nominee Thursday in perhaps one of the most grotesque politically-oriented tirades in recent times.

"Let’s hope that the key conferences aren’t when she’s menstruating or something, or just before she’s going to menstruate," Liddy said. "That would really be bad. Lord knows what we would get then."........

the stones on some people

are amazingly thick and heavy. no?

that ASSWIPE has the NERVE to talk about the united states constitution when he stomped upon it? wow............i'm in disbelief here

Bush's torture lawyer, John Yoo, who is facing an ethics investigation, trashed Sotomayor today
by Joe Sudbay
Last week, the American Enterprise Institute provided the forum for Dick Cheney to give his creepy and disturbing speech espousing the virtues of torture. Today, over at the the American Enterprise Institute's blog, one of the architects of the Bush/Cheney torture policy, lawyer John Yoo, launched an attack on Sonia Sotomayor:

Conservatives should defend the Supreme Court as a place where cases are decided by a faithful application of the Constitution, not personal politics, backgrounds, and feelings. Republican senators will have to conduct thorough questioning in the confirmation hearings to make sure that she will not be a results-oriented voter, voting her emotions and politics rather than the law. One worrying sign is Sotomayor’s vote to uphold the affirmative action program in New Haven, CT, where the city threw out a written test for firefighter promotions when it did not pass the right number of blacks and Hispanics. Senators should ask her whether her vote in that case, which is under challenge right now in the Supreme Court (where I signed an amicus brief for the Claremont Center on Constitutional Jurisprudence), was the product of her “empathy” rather than the correct reading of the Constitution.......

sonia sotomayer

i will attempt to keep an open mind here. she certainly HAS the credentials (unlike let's say harriet miers). i am half excited and half pissed.

she made the ABSOLUTE WRONG decision on a case close to home. it's called 'the douche bag' case. a connecticut high school student referred (NOT by specific name(s)) to her school's administrator(s) as douche bags because they had put some type of music presentation on hold or cancelled it. she did this on her OWN personal blog OFF OF SCHOOL GROUNDS. not too many people saw it. a handful. she ran for student office and was elected. as punishment THE EFFING DOUCHE BAGS (i'm not in high school, i can call them douche bags) wouldn't allow her to assume her office. as i said, EFFING DOUCHE BAGS. you can read the entire story at the cool justice report. and more here. andy thibault has done a grand job of reporting this travesty of justice.

p.s. - so i hate to say this. am i glad his nominee is a woman? yes, i am. like i said, i HATE that it matters (to me). although i take comfort in knowing the woman MUST be able to do the job.

Sotomayor’s Anti-Student “Douchebag” Ruling

again, i will try to keep an open mind here. i WANT her to be great. i want obama's decision to be THE right one (then again, a lot of the decisions he's made are NOT the right ones in my personal opinion. i knew that going in though. i didn't know to what extent though)

Sotomayor’s Rulings Are Exhaustive but Often Narrow
By ADAM LIPTAK
WASHINGTON — Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s judicial opinions are marked by diligence, depth and unflashy competence. If they are not always a pleasure to read, they are usually models of modern judicial craftsmanship, which prizes careful attention to the facts in the record and a methodical application of layers of legal principles.........

Obama Hails Judge as ‘Inspiring’

By PETER BAKER and JEFF ZELENY
WASHINGTON — President Obama announced Tuesday that he would nominate Sonia Sotomayor, a federal appeals judge in New York, to the Supreme Court, choosing a daughter of Puerto Rican parents who was raised in a Bronx public housing project to become the nation’s first Hispanic justice............

First Latina Picked for Supreme Court; GOP Faces Delicate Task in Opposition

By Shailagh Murray and Michael D. Shear

Washington Post Staff Writers
President Obama nominated federal judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court yesterday, putting her in line to become the nation's first Hispanic justice and creating a difficult political equation for Republicans as they weigh how aggressively to fight her appointment. .........