Franken grills Sotomayor on ‘Perry Mason’
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Is Perry Mason some kind of new litmus test for Supreme Court nominees? Judging from a post from The Times’ political blog ‘Top of the Ticket’ it just may be.
It turns out that Al Franken and Sonia Sotomayor were both big fans of TV’s “Perry Mason” when growing up. And like the judge, the newly minted Democratic senator from Minnesota said he too remembered that, in one episode, the TV lawyer’s client was actually guilty. Lightening the mood, Franken asked which episode that was. Sotomayor confessed she had no idea. “Didn’t the White House prepare you?” Franken asked.
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