FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 10, 2009
Jessica Leshnoff
Communications Specialist
Telephone: (410) 581-4293
Fax: (410) 581-6579
E-mail: jleshnoff@mail.mpt.org
Maryland Legal Experts Weigh In, Take Viewer Questions on Judge Sotomayor’s Senate Confirmation Hearings Monday Night On MPT
Owings Mills, Md.—Have questions about how Supreme Court Senate confirmation hearings work for Supreme Court justice nominees? Still making up your mind on Judge Sonia Sotomayor?
Stay tuned to Maryland Public Television (MPT) after NewsHour coverage of Supreme Court justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s Senate confirmation hearings for commentary—and viewer Q&A—from local legal experts on Direct Connection, Monday, July 13 at 7:30 p.m.
Host Jeff Salkin will be joined by Arthur Fergenson, Senior Counsel with law firm Morison Ansa, and Sherrilyn Ifill, Professor of Law, University of Maryland School of Law.
Fergenson has been an attorney for 35 years, and was chosen by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger to be one of his law clerks during his October 1973 term. Ifill is nationally recognized as an advocate in civil rights, voting rights, judicial diversity, and has appeared on NBC Nightly News as well as local network news broadcasts as a consultant and expert during recent Supreme Court confirmation hearings.
Viewers are invited to call in or e-mail questions for experts during the live program at 1-800-926-0629 or directconnection@mpt.org.MPT will air live NewsHour coverage of Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings beginning Monday, July 13 at 10 a.m. on both MPT’s flagship channel and MPT2.
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