Judge Sotomayor seems to have the judicial temperament of an anointed one. I  remember many judges who have told audiences that they will never forget the  day when they were practicing attorneys. Then they don those black robes and  it erases all their memory of when they came before the bench. She strikes  me as one of those. She has struggled to make it, and now that she has, she  is power. Yesterday’s hearing looked like she had been sent to the  principal’s office. As humbling as it might have been to be on the other  side of the fence, sitting there getting a little taste of what she has done  to others for years and years, it will all be forgotten once she is  confirmed. She is on good behavior for a few days. It will be up to her  peers on the Supreme Court to keep her in check as best that they can both  in temperament and in argument. The Judiciary Committee so far as comported  themselves with restraint, respect and repetitiveness. How many times does  each senator have to ask the same question over and over again. If they  can’t use their 20 minutes constructively, they should yield their time.

There comes a time when enough is enough. It is that time.

By, Bradley A. Blakeman, Former Deputy Assistant to President George W. Bush, 2001-2004