My brain has turned to mush, so this MotherShip is now inactive due to incoherence. A series of self-propagating liveblog child diaries will continue till the close of the hearings today. They shouldn't be too hard to find :)
This is the Sotomayor Confirmation Hearing Liveblog Mothership. Please recommend only this diary and not any of the child diaries.
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We need to keep it easy for dial-up users to open.
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CHILD DIARY SCHEDULE:
- DemocraticOz
- gooners
- jrooth
- Pau1ina
- Cedwyn
- FleetAdmiralJ
- FoundingFatherDAR
- cynic
- ItsSimpleSimon
- NormAl1792
- JanF
- TBD
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Live streams available here:
CNN: Click Here
MSNBC: Click Here
CSPAN-3: Click Here
Senate Judiciary Website: Click Here
Washington Post: Click Here
NY Times Liveblog: Click Here
Air America: Click Here
The Uptake: Click Here
HuffPo: Click here
And our own Congress Matters: Click Here
Committee Members
Leahy (D-VT)
Sessions (R-AL)
Kohl (D-WI)
Hatch (R-UT)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Grassley (R-NE)
Feingold (D-WI)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Schumer (D-NY)
Graham (R-SC)
Durbin (D-IL)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Cardin (D-MD)
Coburn (R-OK)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kaufman (D-DE)
Specter (D-PA)
Franken (D-MN)
The Witness List
American Bar Association Witnesses
- Kim Askew, Chair of the Standing Committee
- Mary Boies, Primary Reviewer
Majority Witnesses
- Michael Bloomberg, Mayor, City of New York
- Chuck Canterbury, National President, Fraternal Order of Police
- David Cone, former Major League Baseball pitcher
- JoAnne A. Epps, Dean, Temple University Beasley School of Law, on behalf of the National Association of Women Lawyers
- Louis Freeh, former Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Michael J. Garcia, former U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York
- Wade Henderson, President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
- Patricia Hynes, President, New York City Bar Association
- Dustin McDaniel, Attorney General, State of Arkansas
- Robert Morgenthau, District Attorney, New York County, New York
- Ramona Romero, National President, Hispanic National Bar Association
- Congressman Jose E. Serrano, New York Sixteenth District
- Theodore M. Shaw, Professor, Columbia Law School
- Kate Stith, Lafayette S. Foster Professor of Law, Yale Law School
- Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus
Minority Witnesses
- Linda Chavez, President, Center for Equal Opportunity
- Sandy Froman, Esq., former President, National Rifle Association of America
- Dr. Stephen Halbrook, Attorney
- Tim Jefires, Founder, P7 Enterprises
- Peter Kirsanow, Commissioner, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
- David Kopel, Esq., Independence Institute
- John McGinnis, Professor, Northwestern University School of Law
- Neomi Rao, Professor, George Mason University School of Law
- Frank Ricci, Director of Fire Services, ConnectiCOSH (Connecticut Council on Occupational Saftey and Health)
- David Rivkin, Esq., Partner, Baker Hostetler
- Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz, Professor, Georgetown University School of Law
- Ilya Somin, Professor, George Mason University School of Law
- Lieutenant Ben Vargas, New Haven Fire Department
- Dr. Charmaine Yoest, Americans United for Life
Links to previous days' motherships:
Day 1 Mothership
Day 2 Mothership
Day 3 Mothership
Legal terms used in hearing, for non-lawyers... (useful to me, for what it's worth)
Legalese in Sotomayor hearing explained