Related: The Premise
Just wondering why the BG ignores that issue and gives us this divisive tripe instead:
"Cases, talks offer hints to her views" by Michael Kranish and Alan Wirzbicki, Globe Correspondent | May 27, 2009
WASHINGTON - Sonia Sotomayor recently joined a three-judge panel that ruled unanimously against white firefighters in a case that centers on racial preferences. Critics also pointed to two speeches - one in which Sotomayor suggested that "our experiences as women and people of color affect our decisions," another in which she said that judges sometimes make policy....
Yup, she thinks it is a "living" Constitution!
See: Ron Paul Revolution Excerpts, Part Two
The Democratic-controlled Senate is expected to confirm her....
"Her personal story is an impressive one," said Laurence Tribe, a Harvard Law School professor who advised Obama on the nomination and attended yesterday's announcement at the White House. Tribe strongly supports Sotomayor's nomination, but he agreed that the New Haven, Conn., firefighter case is one of the most divisive facing the Supreme Court in its term ending next month "and certainly her role in it will be a subject of continuing controversy."
Yeah, thanks, MSM.
Btw, this should be about the CONSTITUTION and LAW, NOT PERSONALITY!!!!!!
JUSTICESHIPS should NOT BE PERSONALITY CONTESTS!
I thought this s*** went out with Bush.
Sotomayor has been involved in one decision related to abortion, often the most contentious issue during confirmation hearings.
Yeah, why not bring up a SECOND DIVISIVE ISSUE!
In a 2002 case, she backed the Bush administration's policy of withholding foreign aid funding to groups that provide or support abortions, dismissing the groups' claim that the government was trampling on their First Amendment rights by denying funding. "The government is free to favor the anti-abortion position over the pro-choice position, and can do so with public funds," she wrote.
Oh, maybe I rushed to judgment!
Chew on that one, Obamamaniacs!
The BETRAYALS NEVER END for your side, do they?
In an interview yesterday, Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, downplayed the ruling, which she noted upheld a prior precedent. Still, she called on senators to press Sotomayor on her stance on abortion in her confirmation hearing.
Oh, the ability to LOOK the OTHER WAY by these lefty groups really astonishes me!
You guys are DELUSIONAL!!!!
While Democrats praised Sotomayor, some Republican senators expressed concern. Senator John Cornyn of Texas said in a statement that Sotomayor "must prove her commitment to impartially deciding cases based on the law, rather than based on her own personal politics, feelings, and preferences."
Harsher criticism came from some analysts, including Ilya Shapiro of the libertarian Cato Institute. While Shapiro agreed that Sotomayor's personal story is extraordinary, he said that she "is not a star of the federal judiciary" and that she was nominated largely because Obama wanted to name the first Hispanic to the Supreme Court....
Translation: it was a PURELY POLITICAL APPOINTMENT (keep reading)!!
One day, while Sotomayor watched "Perry Mason" - the television defense attorney - she decided to be a judge. Sotomayor won scholarships to Princeton University and Yale Law School, where she was editor of the law review. After serving as a local prosecutor in New York and working as a corporate lawyer, she was successfully nominated by President George H.W. Bush in 1992 to the federal district court, where she famously ended a baseball strike in a 1995 case in which she sided with the players' union....
How sad that the only effective union in AmeriKa is a millionaires union.
Sotomayor has said: "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."
Now THAT is RACISM!! It SMACKS of SUPERIORITY!!!
Sotomayor said the "court of appeals is where policy is made." Critics have seized upon her comment as evidence that she would legislate from the bench, while her defenders said she was citing the difference between district and appeals courts. "I know this is on tape, and I should never say that because we don't make law. I know," she quickly added in the speech. "I'm not promoting it, I'm not advocating it."
Well, I'm glad you did.
Well, I'm not sold on her yet, and am leaning against.
Convince me, Globe:
"A Hispanic pick for high court; Obama names federal judge Sotomayor" by Susan Milligan, Globe Staff | May 27, 2009
WASHINGTON - Sotomayor, viewed as a moderate liberal, gave no indication of her judicial philosophy, or her views on such contentious issues as abortion, affirmative action, or gay marriage....
I was wondering how long it would be before that was brought up.
Women's organizations, Hispanic groups, and civil-liberties organizations like People for the American Way cheered Sotomayor's nomination and lauded the historic breakthrough for a Latina woman....
Whatever; I'm wondering what ALL THAT has to do with the BLIND LADY HOLDING the SCALES of AMERICAN JUSTICE?!!!!
Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat who was in Afghanistan yesterday when Obama called him to tell him of the pick....
Well, WTF is he doing there, Globe, and why nothing about it in your smelly pages?
Obama's nomination of Sotomayor puts Republicans in a quandary: if they easily confirm her, they will relinquish some of their power as the minority, but if they fight to defeat her and lose, they could appear weak, inhibiting their bargaining power on legislation on healthcare and finance policy. And while gunning for Sotomayor might please conservatives, it could also anger Hispanic voters, whom the GOP needs to rebuild, analysts said.
TOLD YOU it was ALL POLITICAL!!!!
Bush enjoyed substantial support among Latinos, and took more than 40 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2004, but the party's stance on immigration angered voters during last year's election. Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain of Arizona captured just 31 percent of the Latino vote.
I love it when the MSM quotes election percentages from rigged elections, don't you?
"That's why they lost the election big time," said Larry Klayman, founder of both Freedom Watch and Judicial Watch, both conservative groups. `'The Republicans just blew it, and if they do it again, they're going to blow it even more."
No, they LOST because of the WAR LIES and the LOOTING of the American people!!! Of course, you see what we got with the DemocraPs.
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More proof the nomination was purely political:
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, a candidate more likely than some on President Obama's short list to arouse Republican opposition, could complicate the president's task on another major agenda item - healthcare.
Over the next two months, while the Senate will be debating Sotomayor's views on affirmative action, the applicability of foreign judicial rulings, and the right to privacy - all hot-button issues guaranteed to provoke resentment on the ideological edges of both parties - it will also be trying to come together in a spirit of compromise on healthcare.
If the IDEOLOGICAL EDGES are COMING TOGETHER then SOMETHING IS RIGHT!!!! The CENTER is the ESTABLISHMENT!!!!
"I really think that the stars may be aligned here....," Obama told C-SPAN over the weekend, referring to healthcare.
That kind of talk creeps me out.
Give us or give us Sicko or forget it!
The real question is whether Obama comes out of the Sotomayor nomination with enough political capital to wage one more historic battle.
Yeah, the REAL QUESTION is ONCE AGAIN POLITICS -- with EVERYTHING being a BATTLE!!!
Somehow, I don't think that will be the last one waged!
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Here is what confirmed my opposition:
"the Senate should confirm Sonia Sotomayor"
Then I'm opposed!!!!
And it looks like we are having an effect:
WASHINGTON - The ads are just one part of a high-tech information war that has already incorporated YouTube, Twitter, and instant messaging. Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, an influential Republican, used his Twitter account to blast Sotomayor yesterday. In less than 140 characters, he called the nominee a "Latina woman racist" and demanded she withdraw her nomination.
That's why I'm not trusting that s***!
While advocacy spots are nothing new in a Supreme Court nomination fight, analysts say the ones on Sotomayor were produced with breathtaking speed and have unprecedented reach, due to an explosion of inexpensive technology and the popularity of social networking tools....
Can't they say BLOGS anymore?
To rebut conservatives' talking points that Sotomayor would bring a personal agenda to the court or strive to use rulings to make policy, the White House arranged a conference call for reporters yesterday with Sotomayor boosters, including Harvard Law professor Martha L. Minow. And White House press secretary Robert Gibbs admonished reporters covering her nomination to "move past YouTube snippets and half-sentences and actually look at the honest-to-God record."
Maybe you would want to look into 9/11 then, Bob?
Just Google World Trade Center 7 and go from there.
Both sides in the Sotomayor fight agree that their ability to frame the debate has accelerated along with technology. Although they say they have ample resources to produce ads throughout the confirmation process, the Internet - and speed - can prove more valuable than cash....
We've won, bloggers!
And HERE is a PERFECT EXAMPLE WHY, and something you WON'T SEE in the ZIONIST GLOBE:
"Sotomayor's Jewish ties By RON KAMPEAS / JTA
Jewish groups don't endorse US Supreme Court nominees, at least in writing.
The tears and choked sobs when Sonia Sotomayor accepted President Obama's nomination on Tuesday told another story.
Packed into the room along with Sotomayor's family, friends and colleagues were representatives of Jewish groups that have consulted with the White House about prospective replacements for David Souter.
The story of her life - the daughter of a Puerto Rican single mother from the Bronx, NY, whose ambitions knew no bounds - resounded with a community that has made the story of immigrant triumph over struggle a template of Jewish American success.
"It was impossible not to moved by her personal story," said Mark Pelavin, the associate director of the Reform movement's Religious Action Center. "To see her mother sitting there and think about what this says about her and her country - the combination of someone who grew up in a housing project, who has been on the bench for a long time, but who has been a prosecutor as well, that combination is very powerful."
"It was thrilling," said Sammie Moshenberg, the Washington director of the National Council of Jewish Women.
It doesn't hurt that Sotomayor, 54, is a poster child for strong Jewish-Hispanic relations. In 1986, when she was in private legal practice, she joined one of the first young leadership tours of Israel sponsored by Project Interchange, which is affiliated with the American Jewish Committee.
Sotomayor so enjoyed the country - its immigrant culture, its popular music influenced heavily by Jewish immigrants from Argentina and Brazil - that she made a return visit in 1996 when she was a federal judge, and recently joined a Project Interchange US-Israel forum on immigration. In the process, she formed a lifelong friendship with Project Interchange founder Debbie Berger and her husband, Paul, who attended her swearing-in as a Manhattan appeals court judge in 1998.
Leaders of the Anti-Defamation League issued a statement calling for a process that is conducted "professionally, and with civility and respect," and praised the pick while stopping short of an official endorsement.
"We applaud President Obama for having selected this noted jurist to be the Court's first Hispanic and third woman Justice," the ADL leaders stated. "If confirmed, she will undoubtedly bring an important new perspective to the work of the Court."-------
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It's sad, but EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS in AmeriKa government somehow seems to trace back to the benefit of the Jew.
