Lights! Camera! SCOTUS! All eyes this week are turned toward the confirmation hearing of Justice Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama's first nominee to the Supreme Court and the person who has added "Wise Latina" to our lexicon. Legal eagles from around the land have flocked to the nation's capital to breathlessly cover these hearings, or at least stream them live on C-SPAN so that various Senators can put on their best camera-ready outfits (smashing blazer, Kristen Gillibrand!) and invoke those twin American traditions - case law and baseball  - in sonorous, stentorian voices and, in the case of Chuck Schumer, voices that sound like my former rabbi. (more...)