Sotomayor Summed Up
Judge Sonia Sotomayor is female, Hispanic, liberal, and mediocre. Conservatives should draw attention to the third adjective while understanding that the first two are likely to be politically decisive during her confirmation hearings.
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The nominee’s approach to judging is more important than her IQ, and it is on that subject that senators ought to be trying to shed light. And they should take their time doing it. Thanks to years of activism, Supreme Court justices have more power than most senators. We should spend at least as much time learning how they would exercise it as we do for Senate candidates.
Barring some shocking revelation, we know the outcome of these hearings. Some Republicans say that we could have done worse: Given what we know of her judicial craftsmanship and temperament, she is unlikely to have influence on the Court beyond her vote. But such musings are neither here nor there. The choice for Republican senators is not between Sotomayor and some hypothetical more dangerous Obama nominee; it is between her being confirmed with their consent and her being confirmed without it.
That consent should probably not be given, and should certainly be withheld for now.
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May 26th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Well put, Polipundit.
May 26th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Great advice from the brain-dead at NRO….They sound like real good soundbites…NOT!
They’re helping to orchestrate an historic collapse of the Rightwing….Ride that Rocket into the Ground, WooHoo!
LMFAO again at these pathetic shenanigans. The only thing that the Right is capable of doing right now to regain power is terrorism. They’ve most certainly demonstrated that Democracy is not a system that is compatible with their ideas. So, break out the AK’s MoFo!!!
May 26th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
LMFAO again at these pathetic shenanigans.
MrCock, to see something truly pathetic you need not look any further than the mirror.
May 27th, 2009 at 7:08 am
The GOP needs to resist at all levels. Even if conservatives lose this fight, it might influence the next nominee.
This nominee is as dangerous as the North Korean nuclear threat. Unashamed judicial activism as proclaimed acceptable by this nominee will simply turn America into a nation where legislative redress of grievance is impossible. Talk about dangerous.
The DC press corps and others were falling all over themselves yesterday making some truly silly statements about the nominee. (for a list of these, you an hit: http://firstconservative.com/blog/political-humor/political-humor-the-sotomayor-season-of-silly-statements )
When the topic should have been dealing with North Korea, Obama chose to change the subject and introduce his SCOTUS nominee. These are dangerous times.
May 27th, 2009 at 10:58 am
Poli – I think Obama could have done far worse. Given Obama’s options, I am happy with her. She has little record on abortion and gay marriage which still gives me hope. Even if we got someone like an O’Connor, that would infuriate liberals. I’ll take her and wait and see for the next one that is likely coming in the near weeks.
Make no mistake people – Obama will have three appointments in his first term. We have the “moderate” faction to blame for that who gave us Stevens and Souter in fear of fighting liberals.
May 27th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
And for all damage that Bush did, we should be grateful for the one thing that he managed to get right–the nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito. He did better than his old man on that score.
And although I disagree with your assessment and believe Sotomayor is an extreme radical, if not too bright, so far it is just one leftist for another so the balance of the court really has not been altered.
May 27th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
BCL….Zingo! Ouch! You really stung me with that witty retort.
Back to reality….
“This nominee is as dangerous as the North Korean nuclear threat.”
Or, anyway, the Rightwing’s warped view of it!
LMAO, what deluded paranoid losers. Please, lock yourself in a bunker somewhere with a year’s supply of canned beans and leave the rest of us the frig alone so we don’t have to be constantly exposed to your paranoid, racist delusional self-entitled vomitus….
May 27th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Drood – thank you for pointing that out. While I get angry with Bush’s weakness towards dealing with his political enemies, his Court picks were the very best of any Republican including Reagan.
As for Sotomayor – I am not convinced she’s as radical as we think. The liberal block is going to be very lonely and boring for such a media whore like Sotomayor. She may want to align herself in the middle to have the influence that O’Connor and Kennedy had on the Court. That ain’t happening from the far left of the bench – thank God!
May 27th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
I can’t really fault Reagan with Kennedy. He “evolved”on the bench. Plus,the Dems had 55 senate seats. However,O’Connor was always pro-abortion. That is why Barry Goldwater advised Reagan to pick her.