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379. Sessions' laws

By Joel Jacobsen

The Sotomayor confirmation hearings were pretty sad.  It's not that I expect meaningfulness, or even necessarily meaning, but it would be nice if the participants could avoid actively misleading C-Span viewers. Alabama's Jeff Sessions describes himself as one who enjoyed a "distinguished legal career," and he was once proposed for a federal judgeship himself, and he wasn't turned down for lack of ability (not that that's necessarily a disqualifier, anyway), but for certain, ahem, speech patterns of the type you'd expect from an Establishment white Alabaman of a certain age. And yet in his opening remarks during the confirmation hearings, Sessions began with sententious incoherence: This nomination hearing is critically important for two reasons...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on August 31, 2009 (boomark / email).