Given Senator Session’s own history with the Senate Judiciary Committee (his appointment to the District Court of Alabama was rejected back in 1986, principally because a whole lot of witnesses showed evidence that he was a bigot), I think Matt Yglesias’s comment is both funny and apt:

I would pay good money to hear Sonia Sotomayor say, ?Senator Sessions, I think it?s ironic to be facing these questions from a man whose judicial nomination was rejected by this very committee on the grounds that he?s a huge racist.?