http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/07/13/is-this-a-scotus-hearing-or-sportscenter.aspxIf there’s anything we really learned from the first day of Sonia Sotomayor’s Senate confirmation hearings, it’s this: senators LOVE their sports analogies. Just ask John Cornyn, who invoked football when talking about Sotomayor’s time as an appellateenCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Debug Build: 2.18)http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/07/13/is-this-a-scotus-hearing-or-sportscenter.aspx#1083134Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:38:29 GMT544c64cf-7058-4151-925a-a0fd041e73dd:1083134Dredd<p>I think what Sessions wanted us to believe is that baseball refs only call balls and strikes. That is not the case at all.</p> <p>Refs can throw players and coaches out of the game, and higher &quot;refs&quot; can suspend or ban players.</p> <p>The neoCons like Sessions have an agenda to minimize the Judicial Branch of government, and thus they seek to weaken what the U.S. Constitution stands for. It is like the administrative branch trying to limit the U.S. Congress.</p> <p>These are wrong-headed notions that are ignorant of the long run.</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2009/07/is-law-off-table.html">http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2009/07/is-law-off-table.html</a></p> Blog: The Gaggle