Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee leadership announced the majority and minority witnesses for Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings. Two witnesses from the American Bar Association will also testify.

Many of the names on the majority list have already spoken at events coordinated with either the White House or Senate Democrats, including Robert Morgenthau, who worked with Sotomayor as a district attorney in New York City, and Ramona Romero, president of the Hispanic National Bar Association -- who sent ranking member Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., a letter Tuesday expressing outrage at Republican attacks on the nominee.

Also on the majority list are New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, former FBI Director Louis Freeh and former baseball player David Cone (presumably to discuss Sotomayor's adjudication of the 1994-1995 baseball strike).

Judging from his list, Sessions intends to focus a good deal on Sotomayor's ruling in Ricci v. DeStefano. The list includes Frank Ricci, the first plaintiff in that case; Ben Vargas, another firefighter who joined in the suit; and Linda Chavez, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity, who recently wrote an op-ed taking Sotomayor to task over Ricci.

The following is the complete list, per a committee press release:

Majority Witnesses:

• Michael Bloomberg, Mayor, City of New York
• Chuck Canterbury, National President, Fraternal Order of Police
• David Cone, former Major League Baseball pitcher
• JoAnne A. Epps, Dean, Temple University Beasley School of Law, on behalf of the National Association of Women Lawyers
• Louis Freeh, former Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Michael J. Garcia, former U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York
• Wade Henderson, President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
• Patricia Hynes, President, New York City Bar Association
• Dustin McDaniel, Attorney General, State of Arkansas
• Robert Morgenthau, former District Attorney, New York County, New York
• Ramona Romero, National President, Hispanic National Bar Association
• Rep. Jose E. Serrano, New York 16th District
• Theodore M. Shaw, Professor, Columbia Law School
• Kate Stith, Lafayette S. Foster Professor of Law, Yale Law School
• Rep. Nydia Velázquez, Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus

Minority Witnesses:

• Linda Chavez, President, Center for Equal Opportunity
• Sandy Froman, Esq., Former President, National Rifle Association of America
• Dr. Stephen Halbrook, Attorney
• Tim Jeffries, Founder, P7 Enterprises
• Peter Kirsanow, Commissioner, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
• David Kopel, Esq., Independence Institute
• John McGinnis, Professor, Northwestern University School of Law
• Neomi Rao, Professor, George Mason University School of Law
• Frank Ricci, Director of Fire Services, ConnectiCOSH (Connecticut Council on Occupational Safety and Health)
• David Rivkin, Esq., Partner, Baker Hostetler
• Nick Rosenkranz, Professor, Georgetown University School of Law
• Ilya Somin, Professor, George Mason University School of Law
• Lt. Ben Vargas, New Haven Fire Department
• Dr. Charmaine Yoest, Americans United for Life

American Bar Association witnesses:

• Kim Askew, Chair of Standing Committee
• Mary Boies, Primary Reviewer