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. >>> and the questions keep coming for sonia sotomayo this is a live look from day two of her hearings today. so far today she told senators that she does not believe any ethnic or racial group has an advantage in sound judgment and says she would not take preconceived notions into gun cases. >>> and now to the auto industry. reorganization plans for gm and chrysler closed hundreds of dealerships. today tealerships are pushing for the package of the automobile dealer rights restoration act to put them back in business. earlier this morning the vice president of dar car's organization said this doesn't address the real issue. >> i don't know how they can increase market share by kitting the number of dealerships. if gm doesn't focus on product, they can have a little dealer as they want and talk about it as much as they want, but it would be just like toyota, it's about dna, not about number of dealerships. >> more than 169,000 jobs were lost to reduce the number of dealerships. >>> a philadelphia swim club is under fire after patrons were miss treated because of their race. >> and now

judge sotomayo sided with th city of new haven saying at you would to have a test for firefighter omotion that didn't screen out the black and latino firefighters. she ruled not on against the white firefighters,but against tw latino irefighters, showing she vos with the law. you'll also see a focus tomorr on certa cases involvi property rights. if you look at therecord, she voted once for the gornment and once for the property wner. there will be a focus on guns and theight to bear arms and you'ee when she ruled in the second circuit on that ca, she ruled the same as a conservative panel in chicagon whethere states should beree to regulate guns and other weapo under the send amendnt. so we'll probay see a cus on issues and her record alys will show moderation and carefu adherence to the law and as we fos on her record, wre not going to see any kind bias and yet, the attempt will be to sttch sound bites about things she said inisolated speech. i think we'll see she's a moderate, careful junl follows the w. >> and tomorrow is when these senators, most al mal and all white, walknto a ld mi,

judge sotomayos story is a great american sry and i might add, areat new york story as well. consider th. in no other country in theworld could woman from a minority group who ew u in a workin class fa have received an education at the best institutionsnd having rived thereo ono be a judge and now a nominee to the highest court inhe land. this is because we don't have a cast system in this country, or even a cash system. 250 years ago, we threw awayhe century's old framework. we started fresh with no ras or titles. less than four score and seven years later, a farmer from illinois became perhaps our grtest president. and so the american story gs and judge sotomayor from the bronx, daughter of a singl parent, practal nurse, has wrn her own chapter in it. judgsotomayor embodies wt we l stri for as amerin tizens, her lfe and career are not about race or class or gender. although as for all of us, these are important pas o whohe is. her story is about how race and clasat the end of te day are not sued to predetermi anything in america. what matts is hard work and education and th

he'll be back jt in te for judge sonia sotomayos confirmation heangs on monday.ood morning, jonathan. >> good morning, ax. good to see you >> you too. let's start with this. do conservatives rally think they can block sotomayor's nomination? i an, is that the best case scenar for them? is iat all realistic? >> i don't thinkit's ve realistic. at fir you' got 12 democrats and seven republans on the judiciary committee. unless there was some sort of implosions during thhearing on her parthe'll get through the judiciary committee. you have some republics that havelready shown a willingss to be supportive of her. unlessomething really unexpected happe in these hearings she should be fine. there's really a well worn path re for justices inerms of, or ninee in terms of getting through these heings. they'll refuse to aner specif cases on the grounds that they mayome before the preme court. d anything else is a hypothetical that they can't answer because it's hypothetical. i think her job is to give as little information a possible and the reblicans' job will be to try to

. >> for her partt judge sotomayo reassured the commmmittee she h always u uerstoo the importatane of her cisions. >> throuout my 17 years on the bench, i have witnesseded t hun consequencess of my decisions. the decisions haveve not been made to serve the interests of any onelitigant, but always to sesee the largerr interests of impartial justice. >> msnbc's chief washington correspondent norah o'dodonnells live on capipil hill there was that e moment where senatoreahy cut off a sennor. what was shshgoing say? >> reporter: i thinit's inresting. i ththink toy was large more about style ththan subsnce. all l ese dierent things thatat happened. you lk about, of course, and just talked about senat gillibrand, shshs one of the rising stars in the democratic party, the one who replac hihillary inton in the new yor senate. she was giving her openeng statementt in suppt of jud sototoyor anwas abrupt cut off by anotheher dedemocrat, e chairm of this commite, senanator leahy. that caused a lot of sttirring here, especially malee reblican chaiairman cutng off a fele senanar wheneally sheust had

epublican senars and tn the emocratic senats, did far as whatheir roles they played n questioning judge sotomayo >> i think that i was impressed. i was glad that i thought the toneas very civil. i've watched a lot ofupreme court hearings and it hasn't alwaysbeen like hat. i think the repubcan senators know that this is-- they have to b careful to not attack her unfairly. i was impssed with the tenor of the hrings that both- both parties were carel and thoughul and nobody- it seemed very civil cmpared to other hearings. >> hrer: professor adler, civil or not, do yobelieve that theepublicans who already declared -- some ofhem have alrea declared the opposition to judge sotomor, do you think they've done the job -- e doing theob that needto be done to exose why ty believe she should not be cfirmed? i think in some respects they hav. the estioning has en substantive forhe most part, has been civil, and think at's important if the goals tohave abroader discussion about the ro of the court and what sorts of judges w should want have on the court and i thinsome of the republican senators who opse her c

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judge sotomayo no one can accuse you of not having been candid about youriews. not every nominee is so open about their iews. t many americans are left to wonr whether these various -- what these various stements mean, and what you're ting to get at with these various remarks. some wonder whether y are the kind of judge who will uphold the written constition or the kid of judge who will veer us off course and toward newights invented wch judges rather than ratified byhe people. these are some of my ccerns, and i assure youyou will have evy opportunity to dress ose and makclear which path would you take us down if you were cfirmed to the supreme court. i thank you very much and conatulations once again. >> thank you very much. senator whitehouse. >> thank yo mr. chairman. judgesotomayor, welcom welcome toou and your family. >> woodruff: th is senator sheldn wtehouse, a democrat from the statof rhode island. and i join many many americans who are soroud to see yohere today. it's great country, is't it? and you represent its greatest atibutes. your recd leaves no d

weave, and this is why we will l coininueo raise th as the confirmatioionn hearinings for juudgee sotomayo oceed. >> m monnell and othther repupuicicanhave questions about whether sotomayoyor what they call an aivivis judge. thebrbrnan center for justice at ny law schooll released a port today on judgege totomar's record. 're joined d w w byhe author ofhaha report,t, attttneney mona eunene. monica, the brennann center is named after justice brennan from the suprememe crt, and you have dodo an analysis based exexususivy on her judicial appointments. you did not includen this analysis thingngs keke her puic speeches or remarkss m off the cu in qutiti and a ansrr sisituioio, but just her jujudialal opopinns. >> exaxalyly. we were not jujustlooking at th opinioionshehe authoredd but ata cacasenn which she was part of the panel or en banc m mking th cicions. >> e evengng othe apeals court they will have opions wrwritnn by threejujudg o o lgeger groups of judgess dependingng o on whee case is. some of them arere a autrere by sosoa a somayor, some of thehe are thingsgshher she'sjujust sasayi i ag

clearly, sotomayo is herself a moderate progressive.us baround behind her, one of e most experienced justices to be nominated, more experien on the feder bench eve than roberts. so rather than goi after anythi on her record they're going afteher identity, her personhood. an mostritically after r ethnic identity and rac >> well, strategically speaking, let's talk about that decision by the republic i mean, jeb bu did an interview this wee with my former colleague tucker carlson in "esquire magazine" and lamented that the republican party is completellosing hispanics now after having made some proess with tm. he says e partcan't win if it conties to aliat hispanics. they have t be cognizant of that demograph truth so what's thpolitical strategy here? >> 's very birre. on o hand you have michael steele supposedly at the he with this hip hop strategy apparently pt of thei big tent strategy and whatever you think abou george w. bush it was effective under his administtion. in fact, w's" administration had a much higher numr of latino and afr

mccain and senana diciary member senator chuck schumer will weigh i on the state of ts economy, judge sotomayos upcomg nomination hearings d much m it's sunday, it's "meet the press." >>> laakers in california say they're coming closer to aeal that would end california's much-talkeout budget crisis. issue, how to close a $26 billion deficit. governor arnold schwarzenegger wants deeper cuts ineducation and soci service programs. he also nts reforms to welfare pensions. the ate controllerhas alrey issued ious worth $355 llion. >> none of wanted t see us get to theoint of having to have t ious. we're there. an now a numr of the banks are not goingo acce them. >>tate workers have started taking three daysff a month without pay. lawmakers hope a resolution could be reached this ek. >>> and some hope this morning in the case of a missi enager from new york. brittanee drexel was lasteen leaving a hotel in myrtle beach and a vetera police officer says he belies the girl stl may be alive. he says there are intimate parts of this investigation that makes this case dierent than other cases th have seen. h