The Sotomayor Hearings...

start today.

E.J. Dionne admits that there's no chance Sotomayor will not be confirmed, but then launches into a temper tantrum that the "real radicals" are from the Right. Really, E.J.? Really?

After the excesses of the Warren and Burger courts, it seems at least hypocritical for any liberal to argue that moving the court back from the left is "activist." Cries that this or that precedent has been around for 20 years and is therefore sacrosanct--after watching the SCOTUS "discover" rights never before seen--is truly stage craft. What are these people thinking? When Roe v. Wade spawned the modern pro-life movement, it was clear that the judiciary had overstepped its boundaries. When Miranda altered the entire framework of police investigation (and I'm not saying for the worse, btw), that could properly be called "activism." Finding rights that have never before been seen in the Constitution should be classified as activism. Narrowing those outlandish decisions is not.

More Sotomayor roundup:

What Sotomayor should be asked, as opposed to what she will be asked.

Swooning and fawning over the brave, wise Latina who thinks her skin color is more important than brain power.

Jeff Sessions notes that men and women should be able to reach the same legal decisions regardless of sex organs. What an antiquated concept! Must be racism to think one's race shouldn't be a consideration in legal cases.

Thanks to Memeorandum.