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Arizona's Sen. Jon Kyl started the Sotomayor hearings today on a tear, challenging Soto repeatedly to say WHICH precedent she was following in the Ricci case. She kept trying to dance around the question, and he kept doing GREAT follow-up questions demanding that she cite specific precedent. Now THAT is was good follow-up questions are all about. I'm a very tough grader, and I give his line of questions a grade of 95 out of 100. Oh... wait... he's still going, and he may be raising his grade even more. He's now EXPLAINING why this is all so important. That was what I was about to say was the only thing missing in his cross-examination. He's getting up in the way high 90s now on my scale.

And she is coming across as if she's either a prevaricator or else just stupid. We know she's not stupid, so......