* Headlines for July 14, 2009 * Confirmation Hearings Open for Judge Sonia Sotomayor, 1st Latina Nominated to Supreme Court * Analysis of Hearings' Opening Day With Professor, Ex-Sotomayor Law Clerk Jenny Rivera and Democracy Now!'s Juan Gonzalez * 2 Decades After His Own Rejection from Federal Bench, Sen. Jeff Sessions Leads GOP Opposition to Sotomayor * Story of Wrongfully-Convicted Prisoner Jailed by Sotomayor Excluded from Confirmation Hearings