Too bad Sessions won't find himself in court in front of Sotomayor.

[LiberalFighter]

Better yet maybe a DC bus will run the racist over.

[LiberalFighter]

1. Could someone please gag Sessions??

[Lancer]

2. God, he is so horrible, isn't he?

[jaxx]

3. Did he just say women and color on the bench trouble him?

I'm sure I heard that, but not the whole context.

[abluelady]

4. How Stupid He Looks

And how smart she looks. Obviously, this is a man with such small blinders on that he should not be allowed out of his house.

[mscuedawg]

5. What an ass...

overruling human nature...



GMAFB

:spank:

[LiberalFighter]

6. Why is Sessions getting so much time to question her?

[alsame]

7. He's 'very troubled' about everything this morning. What an ass. nt

[no_hypocrisy]

8. It's jealousy. He failed to make the federal bench and she got it.

Not to mention a healthy heapin' of racism from the Ole South.

[madaboutharry]

9. He is simply not that bright.

His thought processess have been hijacked by his racism. And I also believe that he is bitter do to his own rejection.

[zbdent]

10. if his statements were ever given the same amount of scrutiny he's giving hers,

he probably would find himself in front of her ...

[LiberalFighter]

11. Federal Judgeship From Google

In 1986, Sessions was nominated for a federal judgeship by President Ronald Reagan. The nomination was killed by the Senate Judiciary Committee, which refused by a 10-8 vote to let the nomination come to the Senate floor for a vote. Sessions's opponents accused him of "gross insensitivity” on racial issues. Sessions allegedly made a variety of comments that opponents pointed to, when he jokingly said that the Ku Klux Klan was not so bad until he found out that some of them smoked marijuana. Sessions also allegedly referred to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) as "un-American" and "Communist-inspired" because they "forced civil rights down the throats of people." At his confirmation hearings, Sessions said that the groups could be un-American when "they involve themselves in un-American positions" in foreign policy. Sessions claimed that the remarks had been made in jest. One of those voting against him was Democratic Senator Howell Heflin of Alabama.

Sessions was quoted then as saying that the Senate on occasion had been insensitive to the rights and reputation of nominees. After joining the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sessions remarked that his presence there, alongside several of the members who voted against him, was a “great irony.” To add to the irony, after Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania left the GOP to join the Democratic Party on April 28, 2009, Sessions was assigned to be the Ranking Member on the Senate Judiciary Committee. This means that if Republicans were able to regain control of the U.S. Senate while he was still serving that he would be the chairman of the very committee that shot him down.

[LiberalFighter]

12. Has a scientist come up with a way to turn Sessions into an African American?

[trof]

14. Quite a while ago: Oxsoralen

Black Like Me is a non-fiction book by journalist John Howard Griffin first published in 1961. Griffin was a white native of Mansfield, Texas and the book describes his six-week experience travelling on Greyhound buses (occasionally hitchhiking) throughout the racially segregated states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia passing as a black man. Sepia Magazine financed the project in exchange for the right to print the account first as a series of articles.

Griffin kept a journal of his experiences; the 188-page diary was the genesis of the book.

In 1959, at the time of the book's writing, race relations were particularly strained in North America; Griffin's aim was to explain the difficulties facing black people in certain areas. To expedite this, under the care of a doctor, Griffin artificially darkened his skin to pass as a black man.

In 1964, a film version of Black Like Me starring James Whitmore was produced.<1>

It has been erroneously claimed that the large doses of Oxsoralen John Howard Griffin used in 1959 eventually led to his death in 1980 at age 60 from (the claim asserts) skin cancer. However, Griffin never had skin cancer; the only negative symptoms he suffered because of the drug were temporary and minor. The worst, arguably, were fatigue and nausea.<2>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Like_Me#Later_effects_of_Oxsoralen

[LiberalFighter]

16. Make it happen for Sessions.

And then change his fingerprints and DNA so his family won't be able to recognize him. So they throw him out of the house and lock him out.

[trof]

17. Wish I could.

[Prism]

13. I love the look on Sotomayor's face

Just an absolute blank, blinking stare as this jerk mumbles and stutters through his questions. The fact she's following his open throttling of the English language at all is qualification enough for me.

[suzie]

20. She's been a judge for a very long time.

She's had a lot of practice watching attorneys stumble through.

[LiberalFighter]

15. When a group such as a panel of judges has a split vote

how does one person become the deciding vote?

[BlooInBloo]

18. I'm with Yglesias on this...

"I would pay good money to hear Sonia Sotomayor say, “Senator Sessions, I think it’s ironic to be facing these questions from a man whose judicial nomination was rejected by this very committee on the grounds that he’s a huge racist.”"

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/07/thought-of-the-day.php

[peaches2003]

19. His accent can hardly be found down her anymore

I fully expect him to put on a gray uniform and false beard, strap on a sword, and pull out a bucket of fried chicken any minute.