Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Senator Lindsay Graham To Sonia Sotomayor: "Don't Become A Speechwriter If This Law Thing Doesn't Work Out"

Senator Graham rips her to shreds. The entire confirmation hearings is a horse and pony show. Sotomayor is qualifying her answers and being so ambiguous so that she is really not saying anything at all. As Graham told the judge, "I listened to you today, I think I’m listening to Judge Roberts.” She speaks in such generalities and refuses to directly answer simple questions. Graham is right that one could read the text of her answers to questions and just as easily think that Roberts was the one being interrogated. The answers are all attempts to take time without really saying much at all. The cross-examination from Graham is worth watching, even though it is quite long, because he takes jabs at the judge all the while never being rude, and he asks poignant and direct requestions that get meaningless responses.

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