Sotomayor is a racist and isn’t really the best qualified in the country to sit on the SCOTUS. Obambi only chose her because of her race and the fact that as a woman minority, the Republicans will look like racists if they oppose her. Obama is one conniving piece of shit. Got give him his creds, eh?
Sotomayor is unqualified to be on the SCOTUS for more than the fact that she is a racist. She is also a judge that legislates from the bench and in no way shape, or form applies the Constitution in her decisions. Even the lefty law scholars have said so.
I could do several pages on this, but I’ll just give you some links with a lead in on this.
Consider this; if Sotomayor was a white dude with exactly the same credentials, there wouldn’t be much said, other than “he isn’t qualified” to sit on the bench of the SCOTUS.
Now for the round up…
Ace of Spades has a take on this as well.
More Sotomayor: Kinda Dumb and Nasty
From TNR.
As was once said, approximately, of an intellectual lightweight’s nomination: Dumb people are entitled to representation, too.
The most consistent concern was that Sotomayor, although an able lawyer, was “not that smart and kind of a bully on the bench,” as one former Second Circuit clerk for another judge put it. “She has an inflated opinion of herself, and is domineering during oral arguments, but her questions aren’t penetrating and don’t get to the heart of the issue.”
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What If Sotomayor Were White?
By Andrew Cline
Take everything that is known about Sonia Sotomayor and change three factors — her race, sex, and family’s initial socioeconomic status — and the points cited in praise of her selection would be diminished by more than 50 percent. The complimentary commentary would be reduced to: Mr. Sotomayor graduated summa cum laude from Princeton and has had a breadth of experience over his lengthy legal career. That’s it.
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I Feel Your Pain. Not Theirs. Yours.
by Ann Coulter
God save us from liberal “empathy.” After President Barack Obama announced his empathetic Supreme Court nominee this week, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, we found out that some people are more deserving of empathy than others.
For example, Judge Sotomayor apparently “empathized” more with New Haven, Conn., government officials than with white and Hispanic firefighters who were denied promotions by the city on the basis of their race.
Let’s hope she’s as empathetic to New Haven residents who die in fires fought by inferior firefighters as a result of her decision.
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Sotomayor’s Court Record: Lame or Controversial?
by Jillian Bandes
In initial reviews of Sotomayor’s court record, a trend emerges: many of her questionable court decisions have been made per curiam, or, as part of an unsigned decision made by a group of judges, while the decisions she signs her name to are relatively unremarkable.
It’s not a unique trend, and only a moderately useful lens through which to view her judicial record. It’s usually difficult to tell why a decision is authored per curiam, because one court may use the method frequently to write its decisions, while another never uses it. Furthermore, the decision to issue a ruling in this manner may be made by any judge who is working with her – so Sotomayor is not necessarily responsible.
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The Future of Affirmative Action
by Michael Reagan
Yesterday’s nomination of Judge Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court was a historic moment that all Americans should appreciate. Her life story represents the great promise of the American dream — Sotomayor has lived in both a public housing project in the Bronx and in the dorm rooms of Princeton and Yale.
Through hard work, education, and the support of her family, Judge Sotomayor has achieved so much, and she should be congratulated on her many successes.
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Some Key Questions for Sonia Sotomayor
by Robert Knight
When Senators get a chance to vet Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, there are some important questions that they may want to get to the bottom of.
Judicial philosophy – Ms. Sotomayor, in the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal, you were quoted in your speech “A Latina Judge’s Voice” as saying:
“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”
You also said “our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.”
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Biography and the Law
by Cal Thomas
In introducing his choice to replace Justice David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court, President Obama touted Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s biography. He noted her humble beginnings: she grew up in a housing project in the Bronx; a child of Puerto Rican parents; a father who died when she was nine; a mother who worked six days a week as a nurse so she and her brother could go to Catholic school.
If these humble beginnings mattered, as they relate to Sotomayor’s view of the Constitution, Clarence Thomas should have sailed through his confirmation hearings instead of being subjected to “a high-tech lynching,” as he famously put it. Clarence Thomas also came from humble beginnings (as did George W. Bush’s Hispanic Attorney General Alberto Gonzales), but biography matters only if you’re a liberal. If you evolve into a conservative, it is irrelevant, at least to the elites.
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Entering the Trap
by Michael Gerson
WASHINGTON — It is a trap.
Republicans are now poised to oppose an accomplished Latina federal judge for the Supreme Court, further alienating Hispanic voters the GOP has recently driven away in droves. The main line of Republican criticism is likely to concern affirmative action — which might provoke conservative extremists to predictable extremes and confirm an image of Republicans as the party of the male and pale.
President Obama’s choice of Judge Sotomayor was not cynical; she exactly mirrors his judicial philosophy of “empathy.” But it is still a trap.
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Sotomayor’s Fake ‘Bipartisan’ Street Cred
by Jillian Bandes
Sonia Sotomayor became a District Court judge under former President George H.W. Bush, but that doesn’t mean Bush or any other Republican actually supported her nomination.
Obama claimed that her nomination by both Bush to the district court and former President Bill Clinton to the Federal Court of Appeals represents the kind of bipartisan appeal that is “a measure of her qualities and her qualifications.” But Bush’s putting her on the bench was merely part of a larger scheme of political tradeoffs, common with lower court judicial appointments, where one individual is approved to clear the way for another.
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Questions for Judge Sotomayor: What Are Her “Superprecedents?”
by Hugh Hewitt
Over at my blog, HughHewitt.com, I have written a couple of posts urging Republican senators and conservative activists to exercise great caution in their approach to the nomination of Judge Sotomayor. The judge has a long record of service and accomplishment, and an inspiring personal story of hard work and achievement against a backdrop of a childhood lived under straightened circumstances. This is the sort of story that Republicans cheered when it was part of the case for Justice Thomas and Justice Alito, and we ought to cheer it again. America is a great, great land of opportunity that allows even its recent arrivals to the mainland to provide education and opportunity for their children. Judge Sotomayor’s parents must have made remarkable sacrifices for their children, and the judge must have matched those sacrifices with incredible hard work.
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