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Justice Sotomayor

by: DavidThi808

Tue May 26, 2009 at 07:50:56 AM MDT


("While we thank you for your interest in the position of Supreme Court Justice, we have chosen to pursue other candidates at this time. Please feel free to reapply for future openings as they become available, and best of luck with your future endeavors. --Management" - promoted by Colorado Pols)

from the Denver Post

President Barack Obama tapped federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court on Tuesday, officials said, making her the first Hispanic in history picked to wear the robes of a justice.

If confirmed by the Senate, Sotomayor, 54, would succeed retiring Justice David Souter. Two officials described Obama's decision on condition of anonymity because no formal announcement had been made.
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Justice Sotomayor | 67 comments
Nice HR Dear John letter
Don't think they have those pre-written for Supreme Court candidates.

Seriously, what was the deal with this last-minute push for Salazar? I don't think it ever made much sense, he's best off where he is. And I'm not sure I buy the future appointment argument, especially now that a progressive Latina has been picked. Something was a little strange about this, I'd like to know the full story.

Yo quiero gobierno medio!

It definitely pushes any hopes of a Salazar appointment back 2-3 justices
POTUS will not be able to slide in another American of Spanish heritage until his fourth pick; by then Salazar may have exceeded his usefulness.

The one that is really rocked must be Strickland. The Stauche left a multi million dollar corporate gig; he was rewarded with that gig for dragging it back from the cliff.

Now he faces years of toil under Kenny. Granted implementing concealed carry rules for our National Parks will be a highlight, cris-crossing the US in a Gulfstream II makes life easier and D.C. car service is great (just ask that former Senator from S.D.).

The upside is he could gain the right knowledge and influence, only to return to the private sector to bill the crap out of  people who have matters of the Interior at hand.

I'd expect him to focus on expanding administrative rules and rule makings so that he might snare as much regulatory stroke before he returns to Hogan Hartson.

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No surprise
The President did just what I thought he would do in this nomination.

judge elected officials by their actions, not by their rhetoric
What are your thoughts on next time?
The SCOTUS is chock full of some real old farts, their predisposed to go horizontal sooner rather then later. Stevens, about 90, Scalia, Ginsberg, Breyer and Kennedy about 70. Scalia is fat too, a heart attack waiting to happen.

I think Obama will continue to focus on persons with the right resume check marks. He can't risk a nominee that won't pass Senate scrutiny. I think he'll continue to go for nominees under of near 50 - Justice Thomas style ;)

As to the exigent factors that drive the lefts real check marks, POTUS will be forced to seek and nominate Justices that fill perverse quotas around religion, race, sex ...

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An observation.
If approved by the Senate, than the old line WASP SCOTUS will have a majority of catholic educated justices....muy bien interesante.

Kennedy, 1960: "If there were ever a conflict between my conscience and my oath of office, I would resign my office."  Santorum, 2012: "I voted against my conscience because sometimes you have to take one for the team."
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Already a majority
Catholics already hold 5 of the seats.

See:  http://blog.beliefnet.com/pont...

Tom Russell

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Perverse 'quotas'
Yeah, a SCOTUS that actually reflects the demographics of the nation are perverse.

If your a Republican--aka old white male from Alabama.

"There are a lot of reasons not to elect me." Mitt Romney in a moment of clarity

"I'm Mitt Romney and yes, Wolf, that's also my first name," Willard Mitt Romney demonstrating 'policy flexibility.'  

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I think next time he'll have a tougher time
African-Americans want a counter to Thomas.

Republicans cannot fight this appt too hard. Latino vote is huge and getting more important all the time.

I would bet on another woman who is probably African-American.


judge elected officials by their actions, not by their rhetoric

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I'd like to see that
statistically we should have 4 - 5 women on the court.

No trees were destroyed in the posting of this comment. But a large number of electrons were horribly inconvenienced.
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No surprise
The President did just what I thought he would do in this nomination.

judge elected officials by their actions, not by their rhetoric
FU
You're a sick piece of shit

"There are a lot of reasons not to elect me." Mitt Romney in a moment of clarity

"I'm Mitt Romney and yes, Wolf, that's also my first name," Willard Mitt Romney demonstrating 'policy flexibility.'  

Are you referring to the photo in the post above Twitty?
You sit there with breakfast in your belly and your eye on lunch ... the human above is one of millions that never got the chance to to do much of anything.

Center for Reproductive Law and Policy v. Bush: Sotomayor upheld the Bush implementation of the "Mexico City Policy" which requires foreign organizations receiving U.S. funds to "neither perform nor actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations". Well there's much more to that ruling that isn't enjoyed by the pro-life crowd.

Bristol and Levi used condoms ... well most of the time. Its the O.B. or Trojan, you make the call.

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I'm referring to about everything you have posted turdboy
I find you a despicable excuse for humanity.  But that is just my personal feeling.

"There are a lot of reasons not to elect me." Mitt Romney in a moment of clarity

"I'm Mitt Romney and yes, Wolf, that's also my first name," Willard Mitt Romney demonstrating 'policy flexibility.'  

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Totally unrepresentative
And yet, that picture is totally unrepresentative of what most people mean when they discuss abortion rights.  And I suspect you know that.  And, even if it were representative - I would rather have the mother making that decision than some government bureaucrat.  And definitely would rather not have you making health decisions for my daughters.  Get your mind out of their pants you pervert.
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Libby has sticky keys...


"There are a lot of reasons not to elect me." Mitt Romney in a moment of clarity

"I'm Mitt Romney and yes, Wolf, that's also my first name," Willard Mitt Romney demonstrating 'policy flexibility.'  

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Deny, deny,deny that we have participated in an infant holocaust since 1973
As to your family ... I hope you are more open with your children then the Palin's. Its all about leading at home, setting examples and keeping the expectations high.
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Crawl back under your rock turdboy


"There are a lot of reasons not to elect me." Mitt Romney in a moment of clarity

"I'm Mitt Romney and yes, Wolf, that's also my first name," Willard Mitt Romney demonstrating 'policy flexibility.'  

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I'll spell it out for you
I'll type slowly just for you.  First - a zygote is not the same as an infant.  Second, neither is a blastocyst.  In fact, no embryo in the first trimester is an "infant" - they are completely nonviable outside the uterus.

Belief otherwise is strictly religious and does not belong in our laws or Constitution.

Obligatory Python: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

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I hate to inform you, but this has been going on long before 1973.
Back alley abortions, fly to another country if Mom and Dad could afford it.

Women have been aborting their kids, or trying to, since forever.  It didn't start in 1973.

"Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth." Paul Krugman, 9/2010

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Yes, but didn't we really turnup the over heat here in the US around 1973?
I'd guess abortion is as old as prostitution
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If you want to speak intelligently on the subject,
Read the Abortionist, by Ricky Solinger.  You might learn something.

p.s.

As a woman, it amuses that the most staunch abortion opponents are men?  Hmmm

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For once, you are right.
Actually abortion was pretty common until the early 20th century.  Then it went underground, so to speak.  Since 1973 it has had legal protection, as you know.

No one really had issues with it until it became illegal.  Few felt that life began at conception.  It certainly isn't biblical, which is pretty damned ironic.

"Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth." Paul Krugman, 9/2010

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Skip the pictures, please
If you want to provide links to the photos, that's fine.
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It should have been Justice Moreno
Justice Carlos Moreno of the California Supreme Court would have been an outstanding choice. Unlike so many others he has guts as shown by his dissent in the Proposition 8 case.  http://www.latimes.com/news/lo...
Much as I hate to say it...
I think the majority ruled correctly from a legal standpoint in re Prop. 8.  More discussion over in the Prop. 8, thread, though - this thread's on Sotomayor's nomination.

"There's a Romney Rule. The Romney Rule says, let's double down on the tax cuts for the wealthy." -- VP Joe Biden
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"Guts" isn't the only qualification.
The ability to correctly reason through the Constitutional and legal thicket to come up with the most well-reasoned opinion must be at the top of any list of qualifications.

Moreno wanted to do the right thing, and perhaps he was persuaded by the petitioners' claims, but IMHO those claims do not stand against the facts used by the majority in crafting their opinion.

In contrast, Sotomayor upheld the "Mexico City Policy", which was to me a horrible policy, but her decision was legally the correct one - Bush violated no law by issuing that policy.

"There's a Romney Rule. The Romney Rule says, let's double down on the tax cuts for the wealthy." -- VP Joe Biden

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Saw the picture
I guess this takes away any tiny, lingering doubts I may have had about libertad.

Based on what I've read, and taking him/her at his/her word, uninformed, vitriolic, dangerously angry extremist is the only description.

My hunch is Dan Caplis is posting under the handle libertad.    

Caplis doesn't have the guts
He's about ratings and cred and the kind of posts you're talking about are more than Caplis would have the stones for.
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Exactly, Caplis doesn't have the balls
to post photos of .... oh how do you say it ... human tissue removed from the body.

As a note during the death penalty debate I posted a photo or three of a human being that had been terminated via a similar state policy.

Maybe I'll post it below and see if Pols deletes it.

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very tasteful my young fool


"There are a lot of reasons not to elect me." Mitt Romney in a moment of clarity

"I'm Mitt Romney and yes, Wolf, that's also my first name," Willard Mitt Romney demonstrating 'policy flexibility.'  

[ Parent ]
A minimal standard of decency is not too much to ask
And please note we are not obligated to ask. Link to your gore-festooned photos, tell us all about them and how they changed your life, do not post them here again.
[ Parent ]
My reply to that disgusting photo was deleted
as were all the replies, but let me restate:

ColoradoPols is on my 11 year-old godson's reading list. Or at least it was until I told his mom to add it to her filtering software.

I can educate him about the moronic rantings of trolls like Libertad, but I can not and will not subject him to images like that. Given that it's the third or fourth that has been posted today, this is no longer a safe place for someone of his age to stay informed about the political process.

If I were the proprietor, Libertad would have been banned after the second image was posted. Would Pols tolerate a lefty posting gory images from Iraq or explicit images from a porn site? Why the kid gloves for this moron even if he has been a somewhat useful idiot?

Non impediti ratione cogitationis.

BTW, I "adduced" this all by myself, you total fucking assclown.
-Laughing Boy


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SillyRabbit, your not the proprietor
I believe Pols followed through on the post. Nice to see there is consistency.

[ Parent ]
This is why the photos were removed
And will continue to be removed. And if Libertad continues to post them anyway, he will be banned from the site.

Again, it's not too much to expect a little decency - photos like these, or pictures of pornography, or any other similarly inappropriate photos have no place here.

And, again, we're not asking.  

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an outstanding choice by Pres. Obama
   In addition to having a compelling personal story, this woman comes to the Supreme Court with a brain and a set of brass cojones.  My prediction:  she turns out to be a left wing version of Scalia!
  And as an added feature, she helps further marginalize the GOP.  Once the right wing Repubs on the Judiciary Committee start attacking her, those few remaining Hispanic Republicans who Tancredo was unable to chase off will come running over to join the Party of the Donkey!
  Repubs... Be afraid! Be very afraid!
What am I missing?
How do you know that she will be left wing on domestic issues? I see she was raised Catholic. That will make 5 or 6 Catholics on the bench, right? Very diverse. Right now we have several important issues that could be in jeopardy by someone who thinks biblically not judicially.

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You're missing a lot.
There is no evidence the Catholics on the Supreme Court "think biblically not judicially."

A leader on the battlefield can be a leader in Congress. -- redstateblues
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I hope that Nixon beats Kennedy in the election
I don't want no President who takes orders from the Pope.
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I am warming up to her
It would be just as wrong to have 5-6 Catholics on the Supreme Court as it would be to have 8 stodgy old white guys.

That being said, I am warming up to her. She has amazing credentials and appears to be smart as a whip.

I know that the Great One works in mysterious ways. At first I thought he nominated her to throw out an easy bone for the angry mob to defeat, so he could get his first choice pick, fellow Harvard alum Kagan.  But that would be too obvious and he is too mature to play silly political games.  


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I don't think she's a left-wing Scalia
I think she's pretty solidly just to the left of Souter, whom she's replacing.  Unless she shifts a la Souter once she's on the Court, she'll be toward the left side of the SCOTUS, but a moderate vote nonetheless.

The GOP does run the risk of crossing the line in attacking her, but unless they're somehow successful in blocking her appointment I don't think they'll be so blatant as to piss off the Hispanic population at-large.

"There's a Romney Rule. The Romney Rule says, let's double down on the tax cuts for the wealthy." -- VP Joe Biden

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What would be very powerful
is if Obama appoints 4 or 5 people that are a bit to the left of Souter. Their rulings stand a much better chance of being accepted long term.

No trees were destroyed in the posting of this comment. But a large number of electrons were horribly inconvenienced.
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From your lips to God's ears
I'd love for Obama to have 4 or 5 picks.  That would mean at least a couple of the Federalist were gone.

This is serious, you commie dolt  --davebarnes, 2012.
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Some variety might be nice...
I don't want 9 clones sitting on the bench.  The Supreme Court is somewhere I think you want a range of very strong legal minds.  Scalia in that sense is useful to the Court, though I disagree with his rulings about 80% of the time.

I think Ruth Bader-Ginsberg is the most "left" member of the current Court, and she is by no means a raving communist (or even a left-wing American liberal...).  I wouldn't mind seeing a more "radical" liberal legal mind on the Court to broaden the discussion a bit.

"There's a Romney Rule. The Romney Rule says, let's double down on the tax cuts for the wealthy." -- VP Joe Biden

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The Conservative nutjobs just walked into an ambush...
...the hooting and screeching has already begun from the Right-wing-o-verse on this pick, and throughout it all, they're missing the fact that they're walking into an ambush that the Republican Party is not going to survive.

Whatever fake and shrill arguments they make against this pick will only result in Latinos being driven further and further away from the GOP.

Why? The stupidity I've already heard - "Oh, since she's a Latino Women, she's too hot-tempered to be a Supreme Court Justice." "She wasn't a bipartisan pick - she only got nominated by HW Bush because she's a Latino and he needed that vote in Texas."

And so on. The more stupidity the Right pours into this argument to sink her nomination, the more their own ship gurgles into the political abyss.

This isn't a case of cutting off your nose to spite your face - it's decapitating yourself to win an argument.

And I can't think of a better bunch of idiots for it to happen to...

"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals."
~Mark Twain

RNC screws up, sends internal 'talking points' to dozen of media...
http://briefingroom.thehill.co...

Competence in the GOP, kind of like former generals and other reasonable people: no longer welcome.


"There are a lot of reasons not to elect me." Mitt Romney in a moment of clarity

"I'm Mitt Romney and yes, Wolf, that's also my first name," Willard Mitt Romney demonstrating 'policy flexibility.'  

[ Parent ]
What's with Republicans accidentally e-mailing talking points?
Didn't the McCain campaign do that exact same thing when McCain was announcing his idiotic campaign "suspension"? Perhaps in keeping with the tradition of being the party of old white guys, they haven't figured out how to use e-mail yet.
[ Parent ]
The first and third sections are good
As for the middle section... sure sounds to me like an advertisement for Barack Obama.

"Apple denies that, based on their common meaning, the words 'app store' together denote a store for apps"
-- Legal filing by Apple Computer
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I couldn't agree with you more
It is an ambush waiting to happen.

judge elected officials by their actions, not by their rhetoric
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Along those lines
Witness the tone deaf idiocy of Sen. James Inhofe:

http://www.prospect.org/csnc/b...

In the months ahead, it will be important for those of us in the U.S. Senate to weigh [Sonia Sotomayor's] qualifications and character as well as her ability to rule fairly without undue influence from her own personal race, gender, or political preferences.


"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid." - Nietzsche  
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Yes, we need mindless robots on the court...
that's just what the esteemed 'FOunding Fathers' intended I am sure.  People with no history or context.

What an idiot.


"There are a lot of reasons not to elect me." Mitt Romney in a moment of clarity

"I'm Mitt Romney and yes, Wolf, that's also my first name," Willard Mitt Romney demonstrating 'policy flexibility.'  

[ Parent ]
This is all very confusing for Sen. Inhofe...
After all, what does the bible say about Hispanics on the Supreme Court? I'm sure Inhofe keeps searching and searching, trying to find a reference.
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Nutjobs don't need no steenkin' bible
I watched Tancredo on The Ed Show this afternoon.  All he needs to oppose a nominee is brown skin.

This is serious, you commie dolt  --davebarnes, 2012.
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For a brief overview of soon to be Justice Sotomayor's decisions
http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/j...

Reasonably balanced.

Thanks
That article is wonderful. Thank you.
[ Parent ]
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