Can You Spell "H-y-p-o-c-r-i-s-y"? 2009-07-13

Chuck Oates

13 July 2009

Norman, OK, USA

Can You Spell "H-y-p-o-c-r-i-s-y"?

From Jeff Sessions, Republican U.S. Senator from Alabama, regarding Pres. Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, a Latina, to the U.S. Supreme Court:

“I want to be clear: I will not vote for and no senator should vote for an individual nominated by any president who is not fully committed to fairness and impartiality toward every person who appears before them.” --quoted on a CNN tweet

Being from Alabama, Senator Sessions certainly knows something about fairness and impartiality. Ask any African-American resident of that state.

Can you spell "h-y-p-o-c-r-i-s-y"?

See Sessions: Judicial Empathy Is Not the Law for the full text.