Justice Sonia Sotomayor has attained true stardom. This month, she joins House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former Vice President Al Gore and conservative radio icon Rush Limbaugh in having her own comic book.
Number Nine: Sonia Sotomayor’s high-profile début
easily the best Sotomayor profile yet, via The New Yorker
“Since becoming the first Hispanic justice, Sonia Sotomayor has mamboed with movie stars, exchanged smooches with musicians at the White House and thrown out the first pitch for her beloved New York Yankees. A famous jazz composer even wrote a song about her: “Wise Latina Woman.”
In short, Sotomayor has become a celebrity - all without having made a single major decision at the nation’s highest court.”
Sotomayor adds celebrity to court
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C-SPAN Interviews Supreme Court Justices About Arrival Of Sonia Sotomayor
“I think she sounds like a very interesting and good nominee,” “As a woman, I’m proud that there might be another woman on the court.’’”
Sonia Sotomayor broke her right ankle today after stumbling at La Guardia airport in New York…Limbaugh jokes: ‘Would a white male judge have fractured his ankle’ in the same way Sotomayor did?
Charles Krauthammer, Fox pundit claims Sotomayor is a Latina supremacist
“She says as a wise Latina, she has endowments which make her superior to a white judge,” Krauthammer told Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday.
This is how the conservative magazine “The National Review” decided to depict Sonia Sotomayor. I am starting to get the impression that magazine’s, right or left leaning, remember the Barack and Michelle Obama’s “Fist Bump” comic was on the cover of the New Yorker, are purposely trying to get attention by lampooning racial and ethic differences. They know it will cause debate and thus attention for their mags.
I know I am not breaking news here it just seems to be getting more and more obvious.
Ooh, Mister Steele! With your new GOP, I can see the sexist douchebaggery from my house!
GW Hatchet Judge Sonia Sotomayor and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. had what might turn out to have been a dry run when they presided over moot court in 2006 at George Washington University. Political Memo - In Confirmation Fight, Language Is a Battlefield: NYTimes
Sotomayor And Talk Radio | Keefe, The Denver Post
Crazy montage of clips showing right wingers calling Sonia Sotomayor a racist.
You’d have to have your head in the sand if you didn’t know this was happening but this set of clips shows the magnitude of attacks.
via Countdown with Keith Olbermann
“Angry Black Woman” thing didn’t work for Michelle O., “Angry Latina” won’t work for Sotomayor either.”
