I just watched a Pro-Sotomayor ad on MSNBC, paid for by...

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The Coalition for Constitutional Values.

"ConstitutionalValues.org is a national coalition of public interest organizations representing millions of Americans from across the country."

Watch the ad here:
http://www.constitutionalvalues.org/

[AnnieBW]

1. I guess Our Side Does Astroturf, too

Wonder who they're a front for?

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2. I am not sure yet...

[Eric J in MN]

4. People for the American Way is the most famous group in that coalition. NT

NT

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6. My favorite group

I can't wait until my coffers get filled a bit and I can give to them again.

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3. Video posted on DU here, please rec

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x317847

Although a part of me want to know more about her before I pull for her.

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5. Awwww - we're even kicking ass on the name game - "The Coalition for Constitutional Values"

Suck on that, Frank Luntz. :D

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7. Excellent name, I hope their right, many of us are trusting Obama on this but

if she move the court right (not likely but still...) that trust won't happen again and he may lose his foot soldiers.

[Pirate Smile]

8. Check out some of the articles on the NYT front page for tomorrow:

Nominee’s Links With Advocates Fuel Her Critics

In the 1980s, the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund sued the New York City Police Department, claiming that its promotion exams discriminated against Latinos and African-Americans.

The fund, one of the advocacy groups pressing similar cases across the country, also helped redraw voting districts in the city that increased the number of Hispanic elected officials. The defense fund even sued a former Reagan administration official for defamation after he claimed that virtually all Puerto Ricans in New York received food stamps.

All those efforts were backed by the defense fund’s board of directors, an active and passionate group that included a young lawyer named Sonia Sotomayor, who this week was chosen by President Obama to join the country’s highest court.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/us/politics/29puerto.html?hp

AND

Sotomayor’s Sharp Tongue Raises Issue of Temperament

WASHINGTON — Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s Supreme Court choice, has a blunt and even testy side, and it was on display in December during an argument before the federal appeals court in New York. The case concerned a Canadian man who said American officials had sent him to Syria to be tortured, and Judge Sotomayor peppered a government lawyer with skeptical questions.

“So the minute the executive raises the specter of foreign policy, national security,” Judge Sotomayor asked the lawyer, Jonathan F. Cohn, “it is the government’s position that that is a license to torture anyone?”

Mr. Cohn managed to get out two and a half words: “No, your hon—— .”

Judge Sotomayor cut him off, then hit him with two more questions and a flat declaration of what she said was his position. The lawyer managed to say she was wrong, but could not clarify the point until the chief judge, Dennis G. Jacobs, stepped in, asking, “Why don’t we just get the position?”

To supporters, Judge Sotomayor’s vigorous questioning of the Bush administration’s position in the case of the Canadian, Maher Arar, showcases some of her strengths. She is known as a formidably intelligent judge with a prodigious memory who meticulously prepares for oral arguments and is not shy about grilling the lawyers who appear before her to ensure that she fully understands their arguments.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/us/politics/29judge.html?hp

While there is lots to complain about in the tone and tenor of the articles, I think they will make some Dems feel a little better about her after reading some of these anecdotes if they were concerned. :)

[zbdent]

9. "group that included a young lawyer named" ... hmm ... with that logic

the Catholics are following the teachings of a Nazi ...