Sen. Jeff Sessions Slams Sotomayor For Not Voting Like Other Puerto Ricans

Think Progress | Jul. 15, 2009 (Opinion)

This morning, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) castigated Sotomayor for not ruling with her fellow Puerto Rican colleague, conservative Judge José A. Cabranes, when she decided to deny an en banc appeal in Ricci v. DeStefano, a process in which all judges of a court hear a case (as opposed to a three-judge panel of them). Sessions seemed to indicate that people of the same ancestry should vote the same way: Full Story »

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Two things come to mind watching the video, 1968 George Wallace being channeled and the end of a Warner Brothers carton, th-th that's all folks.

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