TYT: Did Conservative Judges Give More Honest and Direct Answers?

[ihavenobias]

Run time: 02:11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfZIpJhzuWQ   Posted on YouTube: July 17, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: July 18, 2009 By DU Member: ihavenobias Views on DU: 1066

 
Summary: Cenk plays a short clip of (R) Senator Sessions claiming (in light of the Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings) that Republican nominees give more honest and direct answers. Cenk then follows up with a video compilation that clearly shows otherwise.

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[OhioChick]

1. K&R n/t

[Ztarbod]

2. The video shows nothing

Without the context of the questions and answers from all three nominees this is just ridiculous.

[ihavenobias]

5. It shows plenty for those of us who paid attention during the previous confirmation hearings.

I'm not saying anything, I'm just sayin'.

;)

[Enthusiast]

6. It only perfectly illustrates the

hypocrisy of you and your Reich Wing buddies.

[Wizard777]

7. True! Without the questions we cannot determine if answering them would violate Canon 4 of the JCC.

We also cannot determine if they were exempt under Canon 4 of the JCC. Therefore establishing evasiveness or a lack of understanding of what is and is not permitted under the canon.

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Code+of+Judicial+Conduct">Canon's of the Judicial Code of Conduct.

From Canon 4

The canon prohibits a judge from appearing at a public hearing before, or consulting with, an executive or legislative body or official. An exception is made if the appearance concerns the law, the legal system, the administration of justice, or the judge or the judge's interests.

I also hope they don't think they are going to draw attention away from Sotomayor's violation of Canon 4 by drawing attention to Canon 4.

Again from Canon 4

Canon 4 reaches far into the judge's private life. Although the first comment acknowledges that a judge is not expected to live in isolation, comment 2 directs that a judge should refrain from, for example, jokes or remarks that may demean individuals "on the basis of their race, sex, religion, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation or socioeconomic status."

Sotomayor's ever dreaded poor choice of words demeaned the professional ability of white males in discrimination cases. With all the denial and out right psychosis I've seen in defense of this atrocious racist and sexist remark here on DU. There is a lot of people that need to get out their "Freedom is free. You have to pay attention." T-Shirts and burn them. You're too busy trying to overlook things to be paying attention to anything.

Bush's fatal flaw was in thinking Americans are stupid. I hope the democrats aren't repeating this mistake. Many people are aware of the real world outside of the sound byte.

[tomm2thumbs]

3. Loved it - shows how idiotic Session's babbling is - his train has left the station without him

and they aren't coming back either- wave bye bye

[Seldona]

4. K&R

[Wednesdays]

8. K&R

:kick:

[ScottLand]

9. I have strong opinions about this subject

but I don't think it would be appropriate for me to comment on it. They probably hand them a guidebook when they go in that tells them all the ways to dodge the questions.