The Obamas at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute 32nd Annual Awards Gala (Pictures and Video)

US President Barack Obama (L) and First Lady Michelle Obama (R) wave as they arrive at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute 32nd Annual Awards Gala in Washington, DC, September 16, 2009.








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Judge Sonia on the SUPREME COURT block (Video)

That is Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor....

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor's reception at the White House (pictures and video)

President Barack Obama and Justice Sonia Sotomayor at the White House. President Obama's remarks are here.









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Judge Sonia Sotomayor is now Justice Sonia Sotomayor (Video)

Full video of the swearing in of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. She was sworn by Chief Justice John Roberts at the Supreme Court building, not the White House. This is the FIRST TIME, that this event has been caught on video.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, ROOKIE on the court

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Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), "...I don't see racism in the Republican Party" (Video)

Wow.

Really?

You don't see it in your own party?

The very same party that has called Judge Sonia Sotomayor every name in the book but the Mother of God?

The very same party that has called our own, President Barack Obama EVERY NAME in the book?

Damn, you have a very narrow scope or vision, Senator DeMint.



But why should he see it any other way?

He is a white male that has had it pretty well and easy his entire life.

But, he is also a man that must face the facts. This country is changing and the minority will be someone like HIM in the next few years down the road. He did NOTHING to help any discourse in the Sotomayor confirmation hearing, in fact he did everything but to help his party bring back the Latino vote they drastically lost in 2008.

As we saw in the video above, DeMint is in leadership role but took NO LEADERSHIP in denouncing the derogatory statements by the likes of Rush Limbaugh or even the idiot, Glenn Beck.

The town hall chaos has many reading about it, in shock and many are alarmed, and they should be. We should be able to go into the library, park, high school gym, sit, muster, collaborate, discuss and disagree all the issues with our state representatives. We should not be exposed to what is going on around this country at primarily DEMOCRATIC town hall meetings, not with these lunatics. It is disgraceful and dangerous.

Finally, Rachel Maddow was in rare form again, tonight she interviewed one of the main persons behind all the chaos we are reading about and seeing on television, Tim Phillips. This man is President of Americans for Prosperity, A.K.A., Lobbyists to keep Corporations Prosperous.



All of this should be an eyeopener and a definite call to action, for each and everyone of us.

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In case you missed it: President Obama's remarks on the senate confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor (Video)

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Sotomayor confirmed to the Supreme Court

All the nastiness and drama from the Republicans will be remembered.

The Democratic-led Senate has voted to confirm Sonia Sotomayor, who is now poised to be sworn in as the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice. According to NBC News, that event is scheduled for Saturday — Chief Justice John Roberts will administer both the constitutional and judicial oaths.

The vote was 68-31 for Sotomayor, President Barack Obama's first high court nominee. She becomes the 111th justice and just the third woman to serve.

Speaking after the vote, Obama said he is "pleased and deeply gratified" with the Senate's action.

Said the president: "With this historic vote, the Senate has affirmed that Justice Sotomayor has the intellect, the temperament, the history, the integrity and the independence of mind to ably serve on our nation's highest court." read more here....

Chief Justice Roberts will swear her in on Saturday.

Done, done and done.

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Senate Judiciary Committee votes in favor of Judge Sonia Sotomayor (Video)

Vote out of committee was 13-6. This now goes to the senate floor, the Republicans do not have the votes to block this nomination, Judge Sonia Sotomayor WILL BE the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

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Most Republicans to vote "NAY" on confirming Judge Sonia Sotomayor

Are we surprised at this?

After all the racist talk from the Republicans or the D.C. Republicans "spokesmen"?

Grassley and Sessions worried about her personal biases? Please. Did they ever put their own "biases" in check when it came to former George W. Bush and how he practically destroyed this country?

Again, remember, red herrings to hide behind how they REALLY FEEL.

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor appears headed to quick confirmation as the first Hispanic justice despite opposition from a growing chorus of conservative Republican senators who say she would bring liberal bias to the high court.

A Senate Judiciary Committee vote Tuesday was expected to advance Sotomayor, President Barack Obama's first Supreme Court nominee, to the full Senate, where she's all but guaranteed to be confirmed in a bipartisan vote next week.

Most Republicans on the Judiciary panel, including ranking Sen. Jeff Sessions and second-ranking Sen. Chuck Grassley, say they will vote no. At least one Republican — Sen. Lindsey Graham — is siding with party moderates who plan to join Democrats in backing Sotomayor.

Republicans are divided on the politically perplexing question of how to vote on Sotomayor. Many are eager to please their core supporters by opposing her but fear a backlash by Hispanic voters, a fast-growing part of the electorate, if they do so. read more here...

Backlash from the Latino base? You betcha!!!!

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Surprised? Ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, Jeff Sessions voting NO to Sotomayor

I mean is anyone surprised here?

I would have been utterly shocked if Senator Jeffrey B. Sessions (R-AL) voted for Judge Sotomayor, especially with his checkered past in racial issues. Texas Sen. John Cornyn and Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) are also no votes. Remember, the Republicans don't have the votes the Democrats do. Sotomayor will be confirmed.

Sen. Jeff Sessions, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, says he will vote against Judge Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation to the Supreme Court in the committee vote scheduled for Tuesday.

In a column published in today's USA TODAY, the Alabama senator questioned whether Sotomayor would follow through as a justice on her pledge in confirmation hearings to show "fidelity to the law."

"I don't believe that Judge Sotomayor has the deep-rooted convictions necessary to resist the siren call of judicial activism," Sessions wrote. "She has evoked its mantra too often." Saying her testimony and record were at odds, he asked: "Which Sotomayor will we get?"

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Sotomayor picks up the support of Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC)

We all have been trying to tell the Republicans that "elections matter", meaning when you won like Barack Obama and the Democrats did, you have a MANDATE. Well, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) got the message and will vote to confirm Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

But Graham stood out when he said that presidents deserve deference on their choices for the court. He said as much Wednesday.

"I would not have chosen her if I had made this choice as president, but I understand why President Obama did," Graham said. "Elections matter."

The Republicans botched the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor up pretty badly. Instead of showing any leadership, the D.C. Republicans let the likes of Pat Buchanan, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh who are supporters of their party call her every name in the book but the Mother of Jesus Christ. The Republican Party let all that nastiness, race bating, racist and bigoted remarks towards Judge Sonia Sotomayor linger out there that by the time questioning came around, it was relatively timid.

Don't think that the Latino community will not forget what came out of these right winged extremists mouths, they will remember. The Latino vote was critical in 2008 and the Republican Party lost is 2-1. Their performance and language during this process will only confirm that the door to the Latino community will be bolted shut for a very long time.

Judge Sonia Sotomayor will be the next Associate Supreme Court Justice and the first of Hispanic descent. And that is just how it will go down.

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More Republican Support for Sonia Sotomayor

More Republicans are coming on board...

Three centrist Republicans announced they'd support Sotomayor even as the Senate's minority leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said he'd vote no. The split was a vivid reflection of the divisions in the GOP as the party faces a tricky vote on Sotomayor, wary of alienating its conservative base but equally afraid to anger Hispanic and women voters.

GOP Sens. Richard Lugar of Indiana, the Senate's most senior Republican, Mel Martinez of Florida, its lone Hispanic Republican, and Olympia Snowe of Maine all announced they'd vote for Sotomayor, praising her qualifications and her testimony at four days of Judiciary Committee hearings this week.

"I was pleased that Judge Sotomayor repeatedly recognized in her responses this week that 'the job of a judge is to apply the law' rather than independently make policy, and that it is the law, rather than one's own sympathies that 'compels conclusions in cases,' " Snowe said in a statement.

McConnell planned a speech Monday in which he'll say the 55-year-old appeals court judge's past statements demonstrate an "alarming lack of respect for the notion of equal justice," and question her ability to separate her sympathies and prejudices from her decisions.

McConnell joins other GOP conservatives who are lining up firmly against Sotomayor, including Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, who announced Friday that he'll vote no, citing her position on gun rights and comments he said indicate "a tendency toward judicial activism." But with solid backing from Democrats, who enjoy a lopsided majority, and a growing number of Republicans, there's virtually no doubt the judge will be confirmed as the 111th Supreme Court justice. read more here....

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Wow, now Sonia Sotomayor is a "Quota Queen" from none other than Bay Buchanan (Video)

Bay Buchanan is channeling her brother, Pat.



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Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) will vote to confirm Judge Sonia Sotomayor

Lugar statement on Judge Sotomayor


U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar released the following statement on the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to be Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court:


“I have listened to the testimony of Judge Sonia Sotomayor before the Senate Judiciary Committee, carefully reviewed her public service record, and reviewed recommendations from Indiana constituents and colleagues here in the Senate. Judge Sotomayor is clearly qualified to serve on the Supreme Court and she has demonstrated a judicial temperament during her week-long nomination hearing. Judge Sotomayor has had a distinguished career of public service. She is well regarded in the legal community and by her peers. I will vote to confirm Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to serve as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.”



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Rachel Maddow challenges Pat Buchanan on race (Video)

Pat Buchanan wears his racist views well. Unbelievable.

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MSNBC's resident racist Pat Buchanan continues his racist rhetoric against Judge Sonia Sotomayor (Video)

He is not helping the GOP, at all. Believe me, he is not. The Latino community is listening very closely and will voice their opinions at the ballot boxes in 2010.



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Rachel Maddow calls Pat Buchanan out for his racial rhetoric (Video)

NOTE: Buchanan will be on Rachel's show tonight. 9PM EST, MSNBC



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MSNBC's resident racist, Pat Buchanan. Just listening to him is a shame. (Video)

And he is one of the reasons, why the Republicans are OUT. If anyone listened to Judge Sonia Sotomayor, one word you will not come up with is militant, but not by the resident racist. The man is just shameful. This is from Hardball.



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Day Four: Live Stream Judge Sonia Sotomayor's Senate Confirmation Hearing (Video)

Live streaming has concluded for the day.

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Senator Al Franken questions Judge Sonia Sotomayor (Video)

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