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Sotomayor’s Swearing-In: It Happened!


Oh right, “¡felicidades!” to Sonia Sotomayor, who made it official with the Supreme Court today. Chief Justice John Roberts performed the two ceremonies—let’s just say incorrectly—at the Supreme Court building this morning. Sotomayor wore a tasteful suit in a beige hue, and Roberts, as is his wont, wore a black robe. Some of her family members, other Sotomayors, were there too, also in clothes… uh… and that is… pretty much it. Yup. [New York Times]


6:27 PM on Sat August 8 2009
By Juli Weiner
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  1. Brendan M. says at 7:09 pm, August 8th, 2009

    Actually, an interesting fact is that the ceremony took place at the Supreme Court rather than the White House, breaking a 70-year tradition. Apparently, “President” Poupon (why didn’t that one catch on?), being some Constitution-hugger and law nerd, thought it would be a good idea to demonstrate that Sotomayor will be an independently racist justice instead of an Obama-controlled racist justice, so he didn’t even attend.

  2. obfuscator says at 7:18 pm, August 8th, 2009

    aaron sorkin’s president bartlet appointed the first female chief justice(glenn close) and the first hispanic justice(edward james olmos).

    barry done got himself a twofer!

    Brendan M.: “president poupon” sounds like it would be the perfect combination of bad pun and 4th grade level doody joke… can’t believe freepers and ‘baggers never jumped on that one.

  3. Cogito Ergo Bibo says at 7:21 pm, August 8th, 2009

    Who’s the freaked out lady in the middle? Chill, sister! Wait. That’s her mother? As a similarly situated Latino woman, doesn’t she realize that the path to the future is now paved with gold and tamales?

    Actually, as a female attorney of the dreaded Caucasian persuasion, I still can’t help but be proud. About time we get some truly loud women on that court. Ginsberg is too mousey.

  4. shadowMark says at 7:32 pm, August 8th, 2009

    In her kitchen today Harriet Miers is slicing and chopping the hell out of all her vegetables muttering, “Wise Latina my ass I’m a wise ass Texas girl lotta fucking good it did me…”

  5. Buzz Feedback says at 7:36 pm, August 8th, 2009

    Did Roberts bring his kid and let him perform the Electric Slide again?

  6. Bearbloke says at 8:04 pm, August 8th, 2009

    OH NOE!! There’s a messican in charge - AMERICA IS DOOMED!! sHE’S GONNA MAKE US SPEAK MESSICAN AND KISS THE POPE AND STOP BEIN WHITE - THEY’RE TAKIN OVER!!!111!!1!!1

  7. Jukesgrrl says at 8:16 pm, August 8th, 2009

    Wow, who knew her amazing qualifications included etiquette expert? The eggshell suit was a perfect choice for an over-40 second wedding, this time marrying the Constitution.

    And I agree with Cogito Ergo Bibo: that we should celebrate a loud woman. I hope she dresses down every male lawyer with a Southern accent who dares to approach her bench — just in case they’re related to Jeff Sessions.

  8. Brendan M.: White House ceremony is Wed, where Obama will announce that he is enslaving all of America, and Sotomayor will confirm that it is all legal.

  9. Atheist Nun says at 8:33 pm, August 8th, 2009

    What happened? I thought all the Chorizo-hating racists were going to flood the streets with their guns and start a race war rather than “allow” her to be sworn in? What a bunch of pussies. And I was so looking forward to watching the National Guard swat them down like gnats, on the TV.

  10. El Pinche says at 8:46 pm, August 8th, 2009

    THIER GOES THE NIEHGBORHOOD

  11. Scandalabra says at 8:48 pm, August 8th, 2009

    I fully expected the Sotomayors to wear grass skirts, banana headresses and coconut shell bras.

  12. Joshua Norton says at 8:51 pm, August 8th, 2009

    What? No gun fire? No tortillas being thrown in the air? What a let down.

    You’d almost think the whole thing was normal or something.

  13. Joshua Norton: tortillas flying through the air is a UofA graduation tradition, besides, Sotomayor is Puerto Rican, so they’d throw mojitos and pigs instead.

  14. facehead says at 9:13 pm, August 8th, 2009

    Scandalabra: For real, how does this woman expect to get any ass dressed like that? Is that Chirac behind Sotomayor? He could help. In any case, wake me up when wilding is constitutional.

  15. Mahousu says at 9:15 pm, August 8th, 2009

    Justice Roberts is going to be livid. You caught his bald spot in the picture. Wonkette (and the New York Times) will be ruled unconstitutional.

  16. thebeatgoeson says at 9:16 pm, August 8th, 2009

    azw88: Or arroz y gandules and chicharrones…

  17. DoctorCulturae says at 9:18 pm, August 8th, 2009

    A special note of thanks to Chief Justice Roberts for reading from note cards this time. Got gravitas?

  18. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 9:28 pm, August 8th, 2009

    Wanna bet she doesn’t have a birth certificate either?

    And did they do the oath in both English and Puerto Rican?

  19. wheelie says at 9:53 pm, August 8th, 2009

    “I like to Judge in America!
    Irritate Drudge in America!
    Make socialist law in America!
    For left-wing bourgeois in America!”

    Seriously, she should not have sung that at the ceremony. It took from her gravitas.

  20. Cogito Ergo Bibo says at 9:56 pm, August 8th, 2009

    Lionel Hutz Esq.: And did they do the oath in both English and Puerto Rican?

    Also.

  21. gjdodger says at 9:59 pm, August 8th, 2009

    What can I say but, “Ave, Maria”? Suck on that, Huck.

  22. Yay, Sonia! Continue to be yourself and let ‘em gnash their teeth.

  23. hoosiermama says at 10:11 pm, August 8th, 2009

    Gravitas. Oh, nothing — I just wanted to write “gravitas.”

  24. shadowMark says at 10:17 pm, August 8th, 2009

    hoosiermama: Jus primae noctis. Oh, nothing — I just wanted to, ummm, never mind.

  25. hobospacejunkie says at 10:22 pm, August 8th, 2009

    Roberts is red
    Sonia is blue
    She showed the racists
    Who eat their own poo

    Now she’s a justice
    She’ll wear a black gown
    And torment the wingtards
    By just being brown

  26. Suds McKenzie says at 10:44 pm, August 8th, 2009

    All of this to become Souter’s Housekeeper??

  27. SayItWithWookies says at 10:52 pm, August 8th, 2009

    Atheist Nun: It makes a world of difference to get approved before the August recess. Had the Republicans succeeded in delaying a vote, you can bet there would’ve been signs at the town halls saying “Keep Government Out of My Supreme Court!”

  28. I’m so happy this has happened. Fuck conservatives!

  29. WadISay says at 11:39 pm, August 8th, 2009

    Haha, I see that Roberts is reading the oath from a script this time, instead of trying to show off how smart his is by memorizing it, and goofing it up, as he did at Barry’s inauguration. He can limit displays of his powers of intellect to bending spoons with psychokinesis.

  30. villageatrois says at 12:19 am, August 9th, 2009

    wheelie:

    I sit on the bench in America
    I’m not just a wench in America
    Don’t speak no French in America
    Club Bush with a wrench in America.

  31. Lord Growing says at 1:43 am, August 9th, 2009

    When did Roberts get Boehnerized? Dude’s looking pretty orange.
    How am I supposed to be scared of Sonia when the Republicans keep trying to make themselves darker than her?

  32. Vacation Without Hats says at 1:50 am, August 9th, 2009

    SayItWithWookies:

    to get approved before the August recess.

    It just occurs to me that never has the word “recess” been more appropriate.

    I can’t wait for September: “Okay children, you’ve screamed and thrown food at each other long enough, now come back and inside and let’s hope you’ve gotten some of that out of your system”.

  33. azw88: Mojitos, arroz, and pig (bbq ribs) = Fiesta!!!

    Arriba … Arriba … Arriba … Arribaaaa … !!!!!

  34. villageatrois says at 4:11 am, August 9th, 2009

    You’re kidding, aren’t you? Some Scrotal Mayor has been confirmed to the US Supreme Court, for more than a few days? I mean who could that be? Only the shithead from Detroit, who was convicted of lolling around with his secretary. Even Rahm Emmanuel wouldn’t tell Obama to make such a stupid appointment.

  35. ExecutorElassus says at 6:35 am, August 9th, 2009

    Where are the pictures of crying eagles? First an illegal immigrant muslin president, and now this. It’s a goddamn disgrace.

    Barack H. Obama does not like white people, also.

  36. Dreamer says at 7:32 am, August 9th, 2009

    Wouldn’t it be great if her first Supreme Court case is the detainee photos and she rules against the givernment, That will cement her status as an activist judge in the eyes of the wingers.

  37. Firestarter5 says at 8:58 am, August 9th, 2009

    Why is Rush so against this woman? If anything, it might be easier for him now to go to South America and have 8 year old boys slather eucalyptus oil on his beached whale carcass.

  38. gurukalehuru says at 9:18 am, August 9th, 2009

    Congratulations, Sonia. Now start kicking some ass.

  39. x111e7thst says at 10:35 am, August 9th, 2009

    What I want to know: If K Bailey H makes it past little Rickey in the primary, might her vote against Sonia actually cost her enough at the polls(Tejas has 36% and growing hispanic residents) to cost her the general election? Is it more likely to hurt the Repukes as they try to hold on to the Senate seat?

  40. Roger the Shrubber says at 10:40 am, August 9th, 2009

    As long as John Roberts is Chief Justice the entire U.S. government is a pathetic farce.

    Just sayin

  41. Holding Out for a Hero says at 12:56 pm, August 9th, 2009

    I hope Jeff Sessions sees this picture and has a stroke.

  42. ForTheTurnstiles says at 1:08 pm, August 9th, 2009

    ExecutorElassus: Exactly! What’s the incentive to work if you have health care provided for you, so you have nothing to work for? You could stay at home or drive around on public roads and highways like a good socialist and count on the public safety fire crew and cops to bail you out if you get in trouble doing it like a good socialist, or go to the public beach or the state park and eat your socialist granola because what incentive to work do you have if you can just let the state provide you with recreation and transportation and law enforcement? You see the problems with this future, where you get lazy Mexicans on the Supreme Court deciding God’s laws and health care for everyone? Watch this important video on where America’s going with this south of the border experiment:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNIC-jZVmwg

  43. skutre says at 1:18 pm, August 9th, 2009

    She’ll be ’splainin’ all the time, now.

  44. masterdebater says at 2:08 pm, August 9th, 2009

    Only questions now are, how long until the first immigration / welfare case, and how big the explosion inside Hannity’s head will be.

  45. Judicial chicks rule!

  46. Atheist Nun says at 3:05 pm, August 9th, 2009

    SayItWithWookies: lol

    People these days are woefully ignorant because they do have the awesome Schoolhouse Rock on TV every day:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5I2KFENjS8

    Would it kill some TV network to run a few episodes of Schoolhouse Rock instead of a crappy informercial?

  47. Roberts looks like he’s constipated, doesn’t he?

  48. facehead says at 4:38 pm, August 9th, 2009

    Looks like DailyKos is filling in for Sunday Wonkette (tee-hee):

    http://stroszek.dailykos.com/

    How much you want to bet someone quotes this as a serious suggestion?

  49. kdaddy says at 5:35 pm, August 9th, 2009

    I thought there might be a pinata overhead to celebrate in “their way” the swearing in. Big Letdown!

  50. Foolitics says at 6:21 pm, August 9th, 2009

    Michelle Malkin - Stupid, Racist or Both
    http://msmpost.com/news/127/ARTICLE/1351/2009-08-08.html

  51. artbot2000 says at 6:25 pm, August 9th, 2009

    Okay, not entirely a propos but still too good to miss:

    http://jezebel.com/5332736/comic-confrontations-judge-judy-vs-glenn-beck

  52. Bearbloke says at 7:28 pm, August 9th, 2009

    Foolitics: both

  53. rocktonsammy says at 7:36 pm, August 9th, 2009

    Betcha she gets the best weed.

  54. El Pinche says at 7:54 pm, August 9th, 2009

    facehead: According to Mitch McChinless, the GOP is winning. Winning what? Who the fuck the knows what that ugly shit toad is talking about

    Foolitics: What a life! It must suck to be loser unemployed Jesse Malkin’s olive skin meat puppet. She’s Philippino Clayton Bigsby, the blind & black white supremist.

  55. ifthethunderdontgetya" says at 12:03 am, August 10th, 2009

    Foolitics: Stupid, Racist or Both

    Yep.
    ~

  56. Bearbloke says at 1:22 am, August 10th, 2009

    Start studying the Scripture, too. THE HORSES OF REVELATION ARE OUT OF THE BARN! ALL OF THEM!

    First that fake ‘Moon Landing’ - then n0Bama’s forged ‘Hawaiian’ BIRTH CERTIFICATE -
    NOW THIS ILLEGAL ALIEN WETBACK TAKIN OVER MY US-AMERICAN LAW AND SWEARING ON A STACK OF ABORTED FETUES HER TO OBEY HER ANTI-CHRIST POPE AND MAKIN US GOOD WHITE CHRISTIAN AMERICANS WORSHIP HIM!!!!1!!1!!!

    *************************************************************************************************
    btw - the “Start studying the Scripture” line - that’s a direct quote from an email my Senior-Bear got from one of his Jeebus-tard friends on Sunday, asking him to “Please do not let Obama sign senior death warrants!”….. geez, and some oldz have difficulty understanding why their kids don’t visit all that often…

  57. gurukalehuru says at 7:45 am, August 10th, 2009

    O.K., guys, I know it’s still early where you are, but couldn’t you rerun a Peggy Noonan column or something? Sotomayor’s already been a Supreme Court Justice for, like, forever already. Also.

  58. nader paul kucinich gravel says at 7:51 am, August 10th, 2009

    Sonia;
    Beware of Napolitano.
    Do not become another Alberto Gonzales.

  59. Buttery1000 says at 8:30 am, August 10th, 2009

    Buddhists can’t be sworn in. They don’t believe in swearing in. They don’t believe in anything. Or is that socialism? I’m so confused.

  60. What, NO family chickens in orange crates?

  61. zenferret says at 10:27 am, August 10th, 2009

    Foolitics: Conceded in the Philippines?

  62. Unlearned Hand says at 10:58 am, August 10th, 2009

    “What I want to know: If K Bailey H makes it past little Rickey in the primary, might her vote against Sonia actually cost her enough at the polls(Tejas has 36% and growing hispanic residents) to cost her the general election? Is it more likely to hurt the Repukes as they try to hold on to the Senate seat?”

    Short answer: No. The proportion of registered Hispanic voters is much lower than their share of the total state population (I think it’s like 21 percent, but that may be the figure for California), and most wouldn’t vote for KBH anyway. Not that it’ll help.

    Of course, in 20 years, Tejas will be bluer than New York on Pride Weekend. Hahah - the browns are WINNING, fucktards! La Reconquista viene!

  63. josereyes.theroof says at 1:42 pm, August 10th, 2009

    Unlearned Hand: Pinche gringo punetero!

  64. Robert Zimmerframe says at 10:42 pm, August 10th, 2009

    Why is Queen Elizabeth swearing in Judge Sotomayor??

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