Southern Senator Risks Republican Party's Future in Supreme Court Hearings
Republican Jeff Sessions of Alabama, little known to the country, will lead the charge against Obama's Hispanic nominee, Sonia Sotomayor of New York
by Glynn Wilson
When the Senate Judiciary Committee convenes Monday, July 13 to begin advise and consent hearings on President Barack Obama's first nominee to the United States Supreme Court, potentially the first Hispanic on the court, the American people will learn all there is to know about Sonia Sotomayor, an appeals court judge from New York who will most likely be confirmed to replace Justice David Souter. But they may not know a thing about the senator, Jefferson "Jeff" Beauregard Sessions III of Alabama, who is expected to enter the national limelight for the first time as the lead inquisitor in her confirmation, who faces grave political risks for his party if things are mishandled and go wrong. Read the full investigative news feature here...
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Sotomayor appears to be one of the cleanest candidates...
to come along in years. Compare to Robert Bork for example.
She got an absolutely top rating from the American Bar.
Careful, cautious, and knows what the meaning of is is.
Sessions is likely to fall on his face during the planned interrogation.
A mind once expanded can never return to its original dimensions.
Anne Hathaway: 1556-1623
The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.
It strikes me as
It strikes me as increasingly scary that someone who made such racist and shocking remarks in 1986 (which at the time probably weren't as racist and shocking as they are today, not that a great deal of time has passed, mind you, but that enough of a generation gap has passed) could possibly be taken seriously today.
But, what scares me more than that, is that he is in a position to help determine who can and can't be appointed to rather high political offices.
If you ask me, in a way, I feel sorry for the Republicans having to cross their fingers, grit their teeth and screw their eyes shut while praying all the while that he doesn't make any ridiculous statements while handling this. Can you imagine having such a possible ticking bomb largely determining whether or not your party can be taken seriously again for who knows how long?
The Republican party has enough people with too little sense to know when to keep their opinions to themselves to contend with in high offices, without having to worry about what Sessions is going to say, don't you think? :p
What was that old saying mothers used to tell their children? Ah, yes. "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all." Maybe some of the Republicans close to Sessions should take a moment to remind him of that saying, just in case he should get the urge to say something ridiculous, shocking, or scandelous while he's doing this.
Just a thought...