Celebrating our new Justice
Three things cannot be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
~Buddha
And as a recap, we have the haiku of Dahlia Lithwick, a Supreme Court/jurisprudence expert and editor at Newsweek and Slate. The following haikus are from the Senate judiciary committee’s hearing on then SCOTUS nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Lithwick summarized of each of the Senators’ speeches in haiku. Here are a few of them:
Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.
Republicans call
Her failure to make new law
“Activism.” Bah!
Jeff Sessions, R-Ala.
A wise Latina
Would set aside her bias
She just can’t do it
Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
Law’s a quiet place
Where unpopular may hope
Young Latinas dream
Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.
I cannot find fault
With empathy in judges
Courts are the last stand
Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.
A prosecutor
Badass on white collar crime
Tough chick. Just like me.
