Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's hearings begin today at 10am.
USTREAM is offering a live feed of the hearings (embedded below).
Other places to get live coverage:
Today's events should include opening remarks by Senate Judiciary members and Judge Sotomayor will be delivering a statement.
As the Women's Media Center has documented, there has been a pretty nasty stream of both sexist and racist coverage of Sotomayor since her nomination.
Lots of groups are steadying themselves for a difficult nomination process are on the watch for sexist or racist remarks during the process.
We'll be providing updates and links throughout the process, but if you're watching and want to comment on what you see, this is the thread to do it.
UPDATE: The National Women's Law Center also just released The Thinking Woman's Guide to the Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings.
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Woot! I'm cleaning throughout the day for my parents' arrival, and this will be totally rad to have on in the background.
The republicans would do themselves a favor by not standing in the way of this nomination. There is a related post at http://iamsoannoyed.com/?page_id=588
This is going to be dreadful. I mean, Repubs do all this hand-wringing about fairness and empathy when a Latina might use her life experiences with regards to her job, but there is literally no discussion about how a (rich or Caucasian) man's life experience (or maybe just importantly, LACK of experience) may affect how he carries out his job? Are privileged men just simply above suspicion?
And yet, I don't hear any of them saying that they'd come to a "better conclusion" than a wise Latina woman. Seriously, I've been watching the whole thing and it seems pretty evenhanded. It has not been "dreadful".
Another thing I've noticed is that so far *every* republican on the committee has voted for *every* democratic supreme court nominee (including Ginsburg and Breyer) up to this point, and yet almost all (if not all) the democrats voted against Roberts, Alito, and Bork. Why? Because the dems have been and *are* rampantly partisan.
I am for Sotomayor being nominated, but I have to say that the Democrats have no ground to stand on in stating that Republicans are being sexist or racist. It's just not there. Not in the senate.
Apparently they've had to drag out two anti-choice protesters from the hearing so far.
Make that a total of 4.