WASHINGTON (AP) - July 15, 2009
The two reminisced at her Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday
after the Minnesota Democrat noted that he and his family and
Sotomayor and her family tuned in to the weekly television drama
starring Raymond Burr as a defense lawyer.
The series originally ran on CBS from 1957 to 1966 and lived on
in reruns for decades. Burr reappeared as Mason in TV movies in the
1980s and '90s.
Franken noted that Perry Mason won all his cases except one. He
asked Sotomayor to name it, and she couldn't.
"Didn't the White House prepare you for that?" asked the
comedian-turned-politician, prompting laughter in the hearing room.
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