12 seconds ago 2009-12-16T20:50:04-08:00
Day One of the hearing is done, with Sonia Sotomayor's first public statements on her judicial philosophy since her nomination to the Supreme Court. It was all smiles and niceties, until it wasn't.
Still, in an analysis, the AP's Julie Hirschfeld Davis writes the Republicans had a lot of nice things to say about the Democratic nominee. Maybe that was part of their code, deciphered here by AP Washington Bureau Chief Ron Fournier.
The blunt language came from four protesters who disrupted the hearings to yell about abortion. One of them was the plaintiff in the most famous abortion ruling: The woman known as "Jane Roe," the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade and now an anti-abortion protester.
