AP continues to ignore Sessions' double standard
SUMMARY: The AP again reported on Sen. Jeff Sessions' call to "go slower" in evaluating Judge Sonia Sotomayor's judicial record and set her confirmation hearing for the fall, citing her time on the bench, but did not note that Sessions reportedly urged fast action on Justice Samuel Alito's confirmation process, saying, "You don't have to read everything he's written."
In a June 4 article, the Associated Press again reported on Sen. Jeff Sessions' (R-AL) call to "go slower" in evaluating Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor's judicial record and set her confirmation hearing for the fall, citing her time on the bench, but did not note that Sessions reportedly called for completing Justice Samuel Alito's confirmation process within two months of his nomination, saying of Alito's record, "You don't have to read everything he's written." The article, by Julie Hirschfeld Davis, reported that while Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) "wants the process to begin next month, with the goal of holding a confirmation vote before Congress leaves in early August," Sessions "says he'd rather go slower in delving into Sotomayor's voluminous record, with hearings set for September."
As Media Matters for America documented, a June 3 AP article, also by Hirschfeld Davis, reported that Sessions "says he'd rather go slower delving into Sotomayor's voluminous record of rulings during her 17 years as a federal judge, with hearings to be held in September." However, as the Huffington Post's Sam Stein has noted, after President Bush announced Alito's nomination on October 31, 2005, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported in a November 4, 2005, article (accessed via the Nexis database) that Sessions "expressed impatience with the process" and quoted him saying: "My personal view is, let's finish it this year; let's not have it hanging out there. ...You don't have to read everything he's written."
From the June 4 AP article:
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the Judiciary Committee chairman, wants the process to begin next month, with the goal of holding a confirmation vote before Congress leaves in early August for a monthlong summer vacation. He's negotiating with the top Republican on the committee, Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, who says he'd rather go slower in delving into Sotomayor's voluminous record, with hearings set for September.
Leahy and the democrats want to go fast...Sessions and the republicans want to go slow...why?
The answer lies in the ticking time-bomb of Ricca v New Haven that will probably be released sometime in July.
Isn't it about time that truth get the same echo treatment that Republican lies get?? I never get tired of hearing the actual truth about something rather then the coordinated smear campaigns of the right-wing.
It never ceases to amaze me that Republicans/Conservatives speak of the so-called "liberal" media when every story gets the "balance" treatment of presenting AS EQUAL the lies of the right-wing with the truth of the left.
There is no time bomb except for the Republican partisans.
Yeah...Wesley, don't you just hate it when a jurist applies the law and precedent in deciding a case, in a unanimous decision no less, rather than give conservatives the decision they prefer?
Contrary to what broken newspapers like the New York Times would have people believe, when a jurist APPLIES a law or a binding precedent it does not mean that the jurist AGREES with the law or the precedent.
If the Supreme Court reverses Ricci, it only means they disagreed with Sotomayor and the other two judges. It doesn't mean she was wrong.
Do not attempt to reason with Wesley. It is sutile. He is not capable of following anything as complicated as logic and the operation of legal precedent in US jurisprudence.
However, if you ever need a chuckle, he never fails to come through. I imgin he'd be great at parties (until he gets his a** kicked)
Are you holding out on us, Wes? Or are you just pent up with wishful thinking?