chris: so democrats will be watching to see if sotomayer is liberal enough. experts predict sotomayer is likely to be more liberal than souter in only a few areas of the law, in business cases especially involving class actions and punitive damages against corporations, in civil liberties cases, especially involving searches, and they'll be looking to see whether sotomayer will argue for the liberal side behind the scenes, at left as passionately as souter did. pete, we're looking for the internals. why did he pick her? >> what i'm told is that he wanted to make some history here. he wanted to choose the first hispanic for the supreme court, and that was a very big factor. he had three very qualified women he was looking at, and any one of them could have crossed the i's -- or crossed the t's and dotted the i's on all the things you said. he wanted to make history, he wanted to choose a woman and the first hispanic, no question about it. chris: let me ask you, judge scalia. you're writing a book about him. everybody knows he's this incredible iconic, anecdota

. >>> controversial case from sonia sotomayer past testifying at her confirmation hearing. i'm joel brown in washington. the story coming up. fa >>> this week it continues on wall street. dow climbing for a fourth straight day closing at 8711 nasdaq rising 22 points and s&p 500 closed eight points higher. >>> labor department reports the number of americans filing new claims for jobless benefits took a big drop last week. the number of initial unemployment filings plunged by 47,000 people to 522,000 and that is the lowest level since january. hundreds of people looking for work flooding the washington convention center today for a job fair hosted by congresswoman norton. more than 80 employers were at the event all with current job openings and they also gave job seekers some advice on how to be competitive in this ultra tight market. >> in your job search, the basic tenants did not change in a job market but the amount of time an effort you must put into a job search to be successful must increase dramatically. >> right now dc's unemployment rate is more than 10%. >>> judg

senator lindsey graham could be among them but one of his big concerns is whether sonia sotomayer is a bully on the bench. >> it is hard enough being a lawyer having your client there to begin with without the judge beating you up for no good reason. do you think you have a temperament problem. >> nos. >> reporter: the hearings are expected to wrap up by the end of this week. cbs news, supreme court. >>> democrats planning to name a new hate crime bill after andrew sheppard. the measure would authorize the federal government to step in and prosecute a hate crime when a state is unwilling or unable to do so. sheppard's mom said it would send an important message to stop such crimes. >>> nation's largest group of atheists, freedom from religion center claims taxpayers would be paying for engraving "in god we trust" thehouse and senate passed identical resolutions. it will cost less than $100,000 to make the engravings. >>> new tonight word the newly renovated gerard street park in the district could be getting a new name. residents celebrated the reopening of the park this weekend and

critics remain concerned sotomayer is an activist, a full vote to confirm sotomayer is expected next week. >>> up next year law enforcement agencies intensifying focus on michael jackson's personal doctor. a report on the live investigation into the pop star's death. you won't believe who is defending me against the rant of those radical left wingers. >> isn't this partially the southern poverty law center was so outraged by mr. dobbs and the illegal alien tape that he came up with, isn't this a little payback? >> we'll have the latest on the controversy over the president's birth certificate and the media reaction. stay with us. i was in the grocery store when i had a heart attack. my daughter was with me. i took a bayer aspirin out of my purse and chewed it. my doctor said the bayer aspirin saved my life. please talk to your doctor about aspirin and your heart. i'm going to be grandma for a long time. >>> there are new developments tonight into the investigation of the death of michael jackson. investigators and dea a little searched the las vegas home and office of jackson's perso

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he says he backs sonia sotomayer because she is well qualified and has a main stream record. graham becomes the fifth republican senator to publicly announce support for the nominee. >>> still to come when 9news now returns. federal agents raid the office of the doctor of michael jackson before he died. >>> seemed like a great idea selling an entire shark to a sea food restaurant. don't tell that to police. >>> topper? >> we have a new product for our web users. go to wusa9.com. pretty easy to find. you can findtht hoonfae page or go the weather tab. click on the weather tab. m nortto the h noown. raine dot just just west of winchester. we will come back and check doppler and talk about a limore bit more heat and humidity. that's next. (announcer) illness doesn't care where you live... ...or if you're already sick... ...or if you lose your job. your health insurance shouldn't either. so let's fix health care. if everyone's covered, we can make health care as affordable as possible. and the words "pre-existing condition" become a thing of the past... we're america's health ins

with judge sotomayer foremost among them. >> glenn: you know what. -- it's true. >> back to the hot list. >>> obama's car czar he is leaving washington, real story behind steve ratner and who president obama: i took a trip to elkhart, indiana, today. elkhart's a place that has lost jobs faster than anywhere else in america. the unemployment rate went from 4.7% to 15.3%. in fact, local tv stations have started running public service announcements that tell people where to find food banks... even as the food banks don't have enough to meet the demand. as we speak, similar scenes are playing out in cities and towns across america. >>> hello, america. i don't know about you, but i love these czars we have. the car czar, steven ratner, the chief architect of the gm and chrysler bailout. he is being replaced by ron blume, a united steel workers advisor. he is one of 32 of the obama administration soldiers and the list keeps on growing. coming up number one, none of czars play by the same rules as other advisors as cabinet members. in los angeles, economist

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and sotomayer is an inclusive person. if she's only 80% and inclusive and liberal, i can work with you to get the rest of it right. but the republicans have been so exclusive. it's not love thigh -- thy neighbor as themselves. i'm religious and they tell me i have no family values and then they parade people in front of me that's horrible. host: aurelin, you said you could debate governor palin with your job and your training. what is it that you do for a living? caller: clerical skills. guest: you raised a number of interesting points in there. you know, i think it's simply one of these facts of human nature that people we agree with, we tend to think they're smarter. people we disagree with, we tend to underestimate their intelligence. especially when you haven't met someone, let alone had them sit down and take an i.q. test. it's hard say who was smarter. as in the case of sotomayer, one of the things that sets her apart is she hasn't gotten the scrutiny that sarah palin did. the supreme court justices nominees typical

s the tough part is over for judge sonia sotomayer. as deputy political director, paul steinhauser tells us the committee will vote on her nomination to the supreme court. >> reporter: sonia sotomayer is out of the hot seat. they meet tuesday and could vote as early as that day on her confirmation. republicans could push it back to july 28. regardless, the democrats have the votes in the committee. there are 12 democrats and seven republicans in the committee. after passage in the committee, it moves to the full senate. republicans say they won't filibuster or block a vote in the senate. expect a vote before the senate breaks in early august for summer recess. that's something the president asked for. how many republicans will vote for her? three republican senators said they will vote yes in favor of her confirmation. four years ago, john roberts was confirmed as chief justice. he received 78 votes. a couple months later when samuel alito received 50 votes in favor. it was a party line vote. we'll keep a close eye on how many republic

. >>> nomination of sonia sotomayer. she wrapped up four days of testimony before the senate judiciary committee. in the afternoon witnesses who support and oppose her nomination testified. they included mike the new york city mayor. he supports her. there was a light moment when a senator was discussing the disparity in sentences given to crack users versus cocaine users. >> talking during these hearings we are going to do that crack cocaine thing you and i have talked about before. >> thank you, senator, i appreciate it. >> might want to restate that. >> let me correct the record. >> please rephrase it, senator. please rephrase. >> i misspoke. >> the senator went on to clarify that the senate was going to reduce the burden of penalties in some crack cocaine cases and make them fair. >>> three congressional committees began work on president obama's health care overhaul proposal. the president said he wants congress to take action before the august recess. 10-year 1.5 trillion legislation would require everyone to have

in the case of judge sotomayer. the bottom line is very, very simple. about her qualifications a how impeccable they are. shs clearly qualified. when you tal about the issuef subjectivi that all comes into plac with any supreme court nominee. we debated clarence thomas. we had ople vehemently agains him. >> why do not diminish the subjectivity of the courts and rern the subctivity to the halls of debate that we built. >> hold it dylan. that like asking you not to have an opin stop it. everybody has an opion. if you're a human ing there's subjectivity that kicks io gear. you can't -- ion't care if it'supreme court nominee, t president. >> guilty as charged. go ahead, jonathan. >> dyl, sometimes, tugh, cause ngress won'to the right thing an won't step in, the courtsdo have to make congress, make the american people do the rht thing en wh they are not ready. wait. what i'm thinking of in the civil rights movement. rember, if you had left civil rights f african-americans, i you were to l it up to the voting public in the south, it nevewould have happened. y

. >> well, we'll turn to the sotomayer case. she is trying to find out if she'll get her job. she's not going to sin city to get one of the 40,000, but she will find out if she gets the job she applied for. paul stine houser will talk to us about when that could be and if any republicans are expected to vote for her. >>> hello and welcome back, everybody. we are continuing our saturday morning conversations with mayors across the country. we talked to a mayor to see how they are coping in this recession. tommy battle joins us from huntsville, alabama. he's located near the tennessee state line. the fastest growing major city in alabama. thank you for getting up to visit us. fastest growing city in alabama. how much stimulus money have you gotten and where is it going? >> we are very, very fortunate in this community. we are the number one community in the united states. we have gotten a significant amount of stimulus money and we decided that it was a policy of ours we were going to make sure everybody understood the transparency. >> how much, specifically, have you gotten in

. >>> judge sonia sotomayer has just one more hurdle to clear. today the senate judiciary committee voted 13-6 in her favor. >>> a 16-word post on twitter is now the source of a $50,000 lawsuit launched against a former tenant who tweeted about moldy apartments. can you really be sued for what you put on a social networking site? britney moorehouse is in the webster with the answer to that question. britney. >> reporter: anita, in short, yes you can. it may feel like it shouldn't but the laws of the real world apply to the internet so you better think before you tweet. >> that's interesting because it is a lot of unchartered territory. >> reporter: a tweeter for six months raymond bradley observes more than he posts. >> if there is a privacy issue, that everything from moment to moment doesn't need to be broadcasted and once it is out there it is out there for good. >> reporter: it is that permanency that one chicago tweeter may soon regret after being sued for $50,000. he posted this. who said sleeping in a moldy apartment was bad for you? horiz

. >>> a vote on supreme court nominee sonia sotomayer, a senior on the judiciary committee said he made up his mind how he will vote. jeff sessions won't say how he will vote. he told people at a fund-raiser he's troubled by responses at a confirmation hearing wilamet a democratic majority in the senate, it's virtually guaranteed president obama's nominee will be confirmed. >>> a paralyzed law school graduate is fighting to take the bar exam. the test is tuesday so time is running out for sarah. california state bar refused to seat her because her registration fee was paid by check instead of credit card. a deputy director said it's students' responsibility to maneuver the high-tech process. the bar isn't in the business of making exceptions to the rule? >> they said there's no appeal process because they can't take new applicants. but i started my application in november. >>> well, tomorrow her lawyer plans to ask the state supreme court to order the bar to test miranda. she's got governor schwarzenegger's support. he went on to say, sarah is a fighter and i am with her all the way. >>

. >>> april setback, senate republicans set back vote for sonia sotomayer. they forced the committee to push back the vote until tuesday. sotomayer is almost certain to win. >>> across asia, nations were plunged into darkness by the longest solar eclipse from the 21st century. from india to china millions watch as the moon moved between the moon and the earth. in some areas the eclipse lasted more than sick minutes. on a remote japanese island there's a report a group of cows were so confused, they moved over to their trough and started having din are in the middle of the day because they couldn't figure what was going on. >> sounds like us. we were looking at the pictures. it through us for a loop, the sun spots, flairups, what it means for the market. >> you had astrologers saying terrible things were going to happen. >> monica, i like the way you pointed out it was on a remote island where the cows were fooled, not the city cows. >> city cows -- >> at the looked up and said oh, that's an eclipse. the remote ones never heard of an eclipse. >> the city cows

have a vote in the senate judiciary committee where it looks like one republican will vote against sotomayer for the supreme court. at the same time a big gathering of the largest hispanic political group in the country. tim kaine who runs the dnc is going to do a big speech, most of it in spanish. there won't be a single republican official at the event. it shows the disconnect a lot of republicans like mike murphy and others feel they have with the hispanic community, which is fast growing and one a couple of years ago republicans thought they could really penetrate and start to broaden the republican tent. >> a huge problem, what do you do to stop it? >> he's been looking at john mccain, so pro immigration, the bill supportive of. he's done so poorly among hispanics. on the budding news, optimism for republicans, in 1993, christy whitman got elected governor of new jersey, george allen, virginia, rudy giuliani new york, and los angeles mayor, then an incredible improvement for republicans getting first rate candidates because of the momentum. if you look at the news cited, republicans wil

it was talking about that kind of sotomayer. >> you are recognized for up to 20 minutes.i keep adding the up to hoping somebody will follow my example. i do mean nobody will be cut off before 20 minutes. >> thank you, i understand. i'd like to begin using my time requesting a letter describing the role of board members that does not include controlling litigation, i ask unanimous consent. >> without objection. >> judge, thanks for your tremendous patience. i'd like to talk about caperton versus nappy. it's a significant case that bears on the flood of interest money that under mines public confidence in our justice system. the facts are notorious. company ceo spent $3 million to elect an attorney to the state supreme court. it was a huge amount of money. more than all other financial supporters combined. he won, became a west virginia supreme court justice and voted to overturn the verdict against the main campaign. last month, the supreme court held that benjamin's failure to rekus himself was intollerable. the court also noted that most states adopted codes of judicial

we saw a group of children kicked out of a swimming pool and some of the comments made during the sotomayerrings, it was appalling to hear a senator speak to a woman, hispanic woman candidate for the supreme court that way. there are a lot of issues still out there. hopefully we can use it as a teachable moment. >> i would just disagree slightly with the credibility issue. he is president. his words carry a lot of weight. he has to remember that before speaking out before having facts is not very presidential. i think he has to take that in consideration. >> no matter where you fall on this issue, one thing is for certainish tara, you took the words out of my mouth, no more powerful meeting phony than the presidential meeting phony. that is for sure. communications director for democratic national committee and political analyst for "time," adviser to the republican national committee, we thank you for joining us. 15 minutes after the hour. he ber all day long. and it's not a steroid. announceit keeps my airways. to help me breathe better all day long. and it's not a steroid. announceit kee