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Even for a legal nerd like myself, Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings have been fairly dull. So our friends at The UpTake took the liberty of spicing up the day’s most interesting back-and-forth—between Sotomayor and Utah’s Orrin Hatch.

So, there you have it: Sonia Sotomayor is Michelangelo.

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