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July 13, 2009, 12:45 pm
By
Jordan Fabian
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) hit a Twitter milestone today:
Wow, I just went over 1 million followers - thanks everyone!!
The 2008 GOP presidential nominee has 1,000,067 followers. On the flipside he only follows 59 tweeters, including former Phoenix Sun Shaquille O'Neil.
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July 13, 2009, 11:32 am
By
Jordan Fabian
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-Tex.) again announced that she was running for governor today on Twitter.
Her staff tweeted:
KBH: I am running for Governor of Texas. Formal annoucement coming in August #KBH #txgop #tcot #txcot #txpolitics
The four-term senator's announcement was a foregone conclusion, her campaign Twitter account has been active since late March and she had also established a website and hired staff.
Hutchinson is challenging Republican incumbent Gov. Rock Perry, who has also been very active on Twitter.
A recent poll showed Perry leading Hutchinson by double digits, but she dismissed the poll as "flawed" and premature.
One has to wonder if an announcement could be any more formal than that.
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July 13, 2009, 10:47 am
By
Jordan Fabian
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July 13, 2009, 10:18 am
By
Jordan Fabian
Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern had lunch with former Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman today, tweeting:
Interesting lunch with Dan Glickman about the future.
Glickman's name has been tossed around as a potential Democratic candidate for Senate in Kansas.
Glickman served as a congressman for 16 years before losing to Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.) in 1994. President Bill Clinton appointed him Agriculture Secretary in 1995, leaving office in 2001. The former congressman now heads the Motion Picture Association of America.
Although Glickman describes his chances of running as "extremely remote" this meeting may fuel more speculation about a possible candidacy. Democrats have had trouble finding a strong candidate to face Rep. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) or Tiahrt next year in the Senate race.
The race features an open seat that Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) will vacate in 2010.
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July 13, 2009, 10:05 am
By
Jordan Fabian
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) asked his tweeps to submit questions for Judge Sonia Sotomayor for her confirmation hearings this week:
Email me your question for Judge Sotomayor at
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Welcome to the Supreme Court of the Twitter-era, folks!
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July 13, 2009, 9:22 am
By
Jordan Fabian
The Republican National Committee's judicial research team provided their interpretation of the "baseball metaphor" being used by Senators and pundits regarding the role of a Supreme Court justice.
They tweeted:
Durbin says if judges were just umpires there wld be fewer split decisions. But evry bsbll fan knows umpire calls aren't w/o controversy.
RNCSCOTUS references remarks made by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.)
Several members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have used the "baseball metaphor" in their opening remarks during Judge Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearing this morning.
The metaphor, in it's SCOTUS context at least, originated in 2005 when now-Chief Justice John Robert said that his job as a judge is to call " balls and strikes" like a baseball umpire, not to "pitch or bat" like a player.
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July 13, 2009, 8:05 am
By
Jordan Fabian
Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) tweeted that he will release his second quarter fundraising totals via Twitter within the week:
We plan to announce our second quarter fundraising total on Twitter this week. If you are following me you will be the first to know.
Blunt is running for the seat of retiring Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) and may face several primary challengers, even though the National Republican Senatorial Committee has strongly backed the seven-term Congressman. The winner of the primary will face Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan (D) in the general election.
Other candidates, such as former Rep. Rob Simmons (R-Conn.), have used Twitter to announce their fundraising totals. Simmons is the leading GOP candidate to face Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) in the general election.
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July 13, 2009, 6:53 am
By
Jordan Fabian
Legal Times is tweeting that a protester began shouting during Judge Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee:
Protestor yells: "What about the unborn?! ... Stop the genocide of unborn Latinos!"
Capitol Police pulled him out of the room in about three seconds. He was sitting in the back corner #Sotomayor
The AP tweeted that Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), who is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, was not pleased with the interruption:
Sen. Patrick Leahy admonishes outburst in Senate hearing room. LK #sotoshow #Sotomayor
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July 13, 2009, 6:12 am
By
Jordan Fabian
Politicians and journalists will spill a sea of ink over Judge Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation this week and the Associated Press wants to make sure journalists. The Associated Press wants to make sure they write accurately.
Capitalize U.S. Supreme Court and the Supreme Court when the context makes the "U.S. "designation unnecessary.
AP Stylebook Online has an audio pronouncer for Sonia Sotomayor SUHN'-ya soh-toh-my-YOR' http://www.apstylebook.com
The AP is also covering the Sotomayor confirmation @ AP_Courtside.
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July 13, 2009, 6:03 am
By
Jordan Fabian
Many have wondered how aggressively Republicans would challenge Judge Sonia Sotomayor during her Supreme Court confirmation this week. The RNC provided a glimpse of Republicans' strategy today, tweeting:
Sessions' key ? for #Sotomayor: When judge shows empathy toward 1 party, does s/he not also show prejudice against other? http://is.gd/1x7sq
The RNC tweeted using a new account established to follow Sotomayor's confirmation called @ RNCSCOTUS. The tweet links to an op-ed penned by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) that appeared in the Boston Herald. The junior senator wrote:
As the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, I have pledged that Sonia Sotomayor's hearing will be fair and respectful - but also thorough and rigorous.
...President Barack Obama and Sotomayor have expressed a very different view of judging. This view says that justice should not be blind, that it should not be based only on the law and the Constitution, but that it should take a judge's own personal feelings into account.
The president says that when "constitutional text will not be directly on point," the critical ingredient for a judge is the "depth and breadth of one's empathy," as well as "their broader vision of what America should be." But when a judge shows empathy toward one party, does he or she not also show prejudice against the other?
Sessions indicated that he will pursue a tough line of questioning with Sotomayor. You can follow the confirmation hearings via Twitter Room and by following the hash tags # sotomayor and # sotoshow on Twitter.
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