* Headlines for July 14, 2009 * Confirmation Hearings Open for Judge Sonia Sotomayor, First Latina Nominated to Supreme Court * Former Sotomayor Law Clerk Jenny Rivera and Democracy Now!'s Juan Gonzalez on Sotomayor’s Confirmation Hearings * Two Decades After His Rejection from Federal Bench for Racial Bias, Sen. Jeff Sessions Leads GOP Opposition to Sotomayor * Story of Wrongfully Convicted Prisoner Denied Appeal by Sotomayor Excluded from Confirmation Hearings