Below The Beltway

As today’s Washington Post notes, it’s pretty clear the the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee haven’t laid a glove on Judge Sotomayor:
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) tried to place Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor in some school of constitutional interpretation. Legal realist? Originalist? Strict constructionist, perhaps?
In the slow, deep and patient voice she has [...]

James Joyner pretty much captures my attitude about the Sotomayor hearings:
What’s more fascinating to me than this ["wise Latina"] controversy, though, is that so many bloggers and Twitterers are closely following the hearings as if they were other than a mere formality on the road to all-but-certain confirmation. As Senator Lindsey Graham put it [...]

The confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor begin today:
The Senate Judiciary Committee opened the historic confirmation hearing for Sonia Sotomayor, the first nominee to the Supreme Court by a Democratic president in 15 years, at 9:58 a.m. today with Democratic and Republican senators beginning to frame the debate over her nomination.
In a packed hearing room [...]

In a move that is bound to have repercussions for Judge Sonya Sotomayor’s approaching confirmation hearings, the Supreme Court today narrowly reversed a ruling she had made in a controversial employment discrimination case:
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled on Monday, in a case with enormous implications for workplaces across the country, that white firefighters in [...]