{"id":1298,"date":"2009-05-27T16:47:51","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T16:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/27\/sonia-sotomayor-a-blogger-tour-of-sorts\/"},"modified":"2009-05-27T16:47:51","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T16:47:51","slug":"sonia-sotomayor-a-blogger-tour-of-sorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/27\/sonia-sotomayor-a-blogger-tour-of-sorts\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonia Sotomayor: A Blogger Tour (of Sorts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/.a\/6a00d8341f053253ef01156fb55cfa970c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Elle_Woods\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341f053253ef01156fb55cfa970c \" src=\"http:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/.a\/6a00d8341f053253ef01156fb55cfa970c-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" \/><\/a> What do Sonia Sotomayor and Elle Woods have in common?&#0160; Plenty, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/punditmom1.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/sonia-sotomayor-and-elle-woods-have-lot.html\" target=\"_blank\">a wonderful post<\/a> by the ever-original <a href=\"http:\/\/punditmom1.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">PunditMom<\/a>.&#0160; That&#39;s just one of many, of course.&#0160; I&#39;m offering here a kind of tour &#8211; mostly of women whose views are notable in one way or another.&#0160; <\/p>\n<p>At the ABA Journal, Debra Cassens Weiss offers &#8211; and debunks, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/the_four_likely_lines_of_attack_against_sonia_sotomayor\/\" target=\"_blank\">four most likely knocks on Judge Sotomayor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We all love Culture Kitchen&#39;s Liza Sabater.&#0160; This time she&#39;s outdone herself in <a href=\"http:\/\/culturekitchen.com\/liza\/blog\/sonia_sotomayor_a_puerto_rican_to_the_supreme_court\" target=\"_blank\">several<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/culturekitchen.com\/mole333\/blog\/reactions_to_sotomayor_nomination\">intriguing<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/culturekitchen.com\/liza\/blog\/guanabee_smacks_down_tmz_for_their_bigotry\" target=\"_blank\">and<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/culturekitchen.com\/liza\/blog\/wearing_my_puerto_rican_flag_for_the_rest_of_the_day\" target=\"_blank\">some fun<\/a>) <a href=\"http:\/\/culturekitchen.com\/liza\/blog\/why_does_sonia_sotomayor_call_her_parents_quotpuerto_rican_immigrantsquot_and_other_though\" target=\"_blank\">posts<\/a> on the nomination.&#0160; Meanwhile, Jill Tubman&#39;s post on &quot;sexist attacks&quot; appears both at <a href=\"http:\/\/thenewagenda.net\/2009\/05\/27\/sexist-attacks-on-sotomayor-begin\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Agenda<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackandjillpolitics.com\/2009\/05\/the-racistsexist-attacks-on-sotomayor-begin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jack and Jill Politics<\/a>.&#0160; There&#39;s a video conversation at <a href=\"http:\/\/lauraflanders.firedoglake.com\/2009\/05\/27\/the-sotomayor-selection\/\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Flanders&#0160; <\/a>among&#0160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firedoglake.com\">Firedoglake&#39;s<\/a> Jane Hamsher,&#0160; Lynn Paltrow, Executive Director of&#0160;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocatesforpregnantwomen.org\/\">National Advocates for Pregnant Women<\/a>, and Jose Perez who&#39;s a lawyer with&#0160;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prldef.org\/\">Latino Justice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking about the judge&#39;s environmental record?&#0160; There&#39;s a brief exploration by Karen Murphy at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereco.com\/news\/2009\/05\/27\/sotomayors-environmental-impact\/\" target=\"_blank\">SuperEco<\/a>.&#0160; Want to review more newsy discussion?&#0160; Professor Kim Pearson, at <a href=\"http:\/\/professorkim.blogspot.com\/\">Professor Kim&#39;s News Notes<\/a>, has <a href=\"http:\/\/professorkim.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/sonia-sotomayor-for-supreme-court.html\" target=\"_blank\">a nice early review<\/a>.&#0160; Jezebel has a <a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/tag\/sonia-sotomayor\/\" target=\"_blank\">survey with a little more attitude<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n<p>Jen Nedau provides <a href=\"http:\/\/womensrights.change.org\/blog\/view\/obama_nominates_sonia_sotomayor_offers_hope_for_women_everywhere\" target=\"_blank\">a review of the record and some thoughts beyond<\/a> and Jill Filipovic a nice exploration of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhrealitycheck.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/26\/fair-and-balanced-weighing-sotomayors-opinions\" target=\"_blank\">differences of opinion<\/a> and the judge&#39;s underlying value.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, at <a href=\"http:\/\/techpresident.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tech President<\/a>, Nancy Scola offers, as usual, an original perspective: just <a href=\"http:\/\/techpresident.com\/blog-entry\/defining-sonia-sotomayor\" target=\"_blank\">how has the White House put the nomination out<\/a>, and with what ammo?&#0160; It&#39;s pretty interesting.<\/p>\n<p>This is just a sprinkling of what&#39;s out there; add your own in the comments and I&#39;ll include them too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do Sonia Sotomayor and Elle Woods have in common?&#0160; Plenty, according to a wonderful post by the ever-original PunditMom.&#0160; That&#39;s just one of many, of course.&#0160; I&#39;m offering here a kind of tour &#8211; mostly of women whose views are notable in one way or another.&#0160; At the ABA Journal, Debra Cassens Weiss offers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/27\/sonia-sotomayor-a-blogger-tour-of-sorts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sonia Sotomayor: A Blogger Tour (of Sorts)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,9,52,29],"tags":[613,610,612,611,608,609,44,197],"class_list":["post-1298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-politics","category-weblogs","category-women","tag-hispanic","tag-justice","tag-latina","tag-nominee","tag-sonia-sotomayor","tag-supreme-court","tag-women-2","tag-women-bloggers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-kW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}