Mediaite’s good friends at Media Matters for America have been all over Dowdygate and provide the first response from Washington Post fashion writer Robin Givhan, who denies any sexism in accusing Elena Kagan of not being ladylike when she sits in a chair and for wearing dowdy frocks.

With the White House announcement that Elena Kagan has been nominated to the Supreme Court, it won’t be long until the chattering classes again begin to discuss her (lack of a) personal life and the lesbian rumors. Perhaps more importantly, why should it matter whether Kagan is a lesbian or not?

This ain’t no Joe Wilson moment. When you’re a Supreme Court justice and you quietly mouth back to a President during his first official State of the Union address the result is a lot of intellectual heavy weights using to oped pages to wrestle over the role of SCOTUS (does everybody now want to be a cable news talking head at heart?) and the appropriateness of the President challenging (threatening?) them in a one-sided public forum.

There has been so much news in the last two weeks between Haiti, Leno and Conan, Tuesday’s special election in Massachusetts that it’s easy to wonder whether the full impact of yesterday’s radical Supreme Court decision, to lift the limits on how much U.S. corporations can spend on a political campaign, is getting lost in the mix. Rachel Maddow calls it a a lightning bolt into “the entire American political establishment.”

Lights! Camera! SCOTUS! All eyes this week are turned toward the confirmation hearing of Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Mediaite asked some of our favorite legal eagles to share their thoughts on the Sotomayor hearings: The New Yorker/CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin, Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick, CBS’s Andrew Cohen and SCOTUSblog’s Tom Goldstein weigh in on today’s events.