Obama to Announce Sotomayor As Supreme Court Nominee

[TheSarge]

President Obama plans to announce his nominee to the Supreme Court Tuesday morning, FOX News has confirmed.

The announcement, set for 10:15 a.m. ET, comes after the president met with his legal team Monday at the White House to discuss the selection. He also read through written material on potential picks over the weekend at Camp David, according to a White House official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

The president has kept a tight lid on the identity of the nominee. As of midnight, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had not been given any notice of whom Obama had picked.

Obama's nominee would replace outgoing Justice David Souter if confirmed. The presumptive short list includes several women, including federal appeals court judges Sonia Sotomayor and Diane Wood. 



http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/26/obama-announce-supreme-court-nominee-tuesday-morning/

[thundley4]

Great, this is that judge who is on tape saying something about making laws from the bench.

ETA:  Not making laws exactly, but making policy.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfC99LrrM2Q[/youtube]

[NHSparky]

<sniff, sniff>...I smell filibuster.

[BlueStateSaint]

<sniff, sniff>...I smell filibuster.

So do I.  One can hope.

[Sam Adams]

The pundits are saying she is an intellectual lightweight. So, she should be easily rolled by Alito, Roberts and Scalia. Maybe they will even convert her! That would be way kool.

[TheSarge]

The pundits are saying she is an intellectual lightweight.

So she'll blend in well with the rest of the Administration?

[NHSparky]

So she'll blend in well with the rest of the Administration?

Only if she's been cheating on her taxes.

[DumbAss Tanker]

<sniff, sniff>...I smell filibuster.

That would probably require a lot more balls than the Senate Republicans can muster.

[DixieBelle]

They better find their ________. :-(

http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/judge-sotomayors-appellate-opinions-in-civil-cases/

[thundley4]

That would probably require a lot more balls than the Senate Republicans can muster.

They're saying that on FNC this morning that there may not be enough support for a filibuster, but Senator Kyl has talked about using procedural rules to delay/block confirmation.

[RobJohnson]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama has chosen appeals court Judge Sonia Sotomayor to fill the U.S. Supreme Court seat being vacated by liberal Justice David Souter, a White House official said on Tuesday.

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[BadCat]

We all knew he'd pick a communist.
He did.

[5412]

We all knew he'd pick a communist.
He did.

Hi,

I am in the middle of reading Mark Levin's book, "Liberty and Tyranny".  He really documents how Roosevelt basically trashed the Constitution by first trying to pack the Supreme Court, then he did something no other president in history has done.  Since the days of George Washington, every president had retired after their second term, Roosevelt did not and was elected four times.   According to the book he virtually intimidated the Supreme Court, and then over time packed them with liberal judges who were no longer interested in the Constitution.

This is right out of the Roosevelt playbook.  The lady will be on the bench.  At the same time, the Republicans should do everything they can to delay, hamper, filibuster this one......because likely BO will have more than one nominee and they have to make it a difficult, painful process. 

I prey for the day the Republicans have a huge majority and they can actually impeach a Surpreme Court judge for not following the Constitution.  Who was the judge who cited the French Constitution in writing his opinion?  He should have been impeached right on the spot....

regards,
5412

[JohnnyReb]

Hi,

I am in the middle of reading Mark Levin's book, "Liberty and Tyranny".  He really documents how Roosevelt basically trashed the Constitution by first trying to pack the Supreme Court, then he did something no other president in history has done.  Since the days of George Washington, every president had retired after their second term, Roosevelt did not and was elected four times.   According to the book he virtually intimidated the Supreme Court, and then over time packed them with liberal judges who were no longer interested in the Constitution.

This is right out of the Roosevelt playbook.  The lady will be on the bench.  At the same time, the Republicans should do everything they can to delay, hamper, filibuster this one......because likely BO will have more than one nominee and they have to make it a difficult, painful process. 

I prey for the day the Republicans have a huge majority and they can actually impeach a Surpreme Court judge for not following the Constitution.  Who was the judge who cited the French Constitution in writing his opinion?  He should have been impeached right on the spot....
regards,
5412

I think that was Ruth Bader-Ginsberg and I don't give a flying f*** if I spelled name right or not.

[The Village Idiot]

Radical leftwing activist judge who is anti-Constitution and believes her job is to make the law.


wonderful.

[The Village Idiot]

<sniff, sniff>...I smell filibuster.

I don't.

I smell Snowe, Collins and other Republicans rushing to support her.

[BlueStateSaint]

That would probably require a lot more balls than the Senate Republicans can muster.

But, because she's taking a seat that was occupied by a stealth liberal, she won't change the makeup of the Court--but she will write some really off-the-wall opinions.  And, upon further review (three words you don't want to hear from an NFL referee), you are probably right, in that the Senate Republicans won't want to, much less be able to, mount a fillibuster.

The upcoming mid-terms will give the fillibuster back to the Republicans, and the 2012 elections will give the Republicans a supermajority--which is also close to the amount of votes needed for a successful impeachment.

[Chris_]

<sniff, sniff>...I smell filibuster.

I don't.

I smell McCain, Graham-nasty, Snowe, Collins and other Republicans rushing to support her.

Fixorated.   (gotta get the leaders of the bend and scrape caucus included by name)

[thundley4]

Hi,

I am in the middle of reading Mark Levin's book, "Liberty and Tyranny".  He really documents how Roosevelt basically trashed the Constitution by first trying to pack the Supreme Court, then he did something no other president in history has done.  Since the days of George Washington, every president had retired after their second term, Roosevelt did not and was elected four times.   According to the book he virtually intimidated the Supreme Court, and then over time packed them with liberal judges who were no longer interested in the Constitution.

This is right out of the Roosevelt playbook.  The lady will be on the bench.  At the same time, the Republicans should do everything they can to delay, hamper, filibuster this one......because likely BO will have more than one nominee and they have to make it a difficult, painful process. 

I prey for the day the Republicans have a huge majority and they can actually impeach a Surpreme Court judge for not following the Constitution.  Who was the judge who cited the French Constitution in writing his opinion?  He should have been impeached right on the spot....

regards,
5412

Liberals Sketch Out Dreams and Limits for Supreme Court
Just a little snippet from the article.

In the 1980s, conservatives popularized "originalism," which asserts that the only legitimate way to apply the Constitution is as 18th century Americans would have understood the text. Liberal approaches -- treating the Constitution as a "living document," as Mr. Obama suggests -- invite judges to cloak their personal views as law, they argue.

"What does a judge consult, if not the original understanding of the text? What binds the biases of judge?" Justice Scalia said in a 1996 speech. "The whole purpose of the Constitution is to prevent a future society from doing what it wants to do," he said. "To change, to evolve, you don't need a constitution, all you need is a legislature and a ballot box."

In a "2020" entry, the book's co-editor, Reva Siegel, and Yale colleague Robert Post argue that conservatives disguise their own preferences as those of the founders, and ignore the fact that courts traditionally have read broad constitutional phrases in line with contemporary practice.

[The Village Idiot]

I don't.

I smell McCain, Graham-nasty, Snowe, Collins and other Republicans rushing to support her.


Fixorated.   (gotta get the leaders of the bend and scrape caucus included by name)

Thanks, didn't mean to pick on the femalian flippers

[Chris]

Apparently, white people make inferior judges...

As one would expect for a speech to La Raza, Sotomayor stated,

"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."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/us/politics/15judge.text.html

[Tess Anderson]

I can't believe he went ahead with her after that remark of hers was made on tape. Guess that just goes to show the remaining people that didn't want to believe how radical Barack Hussein Obama is wrong. This woman is a racist to boot, ask any New Haven firefighter. No stops should be pulled to get rid of this black-robed moonbat.

[miskie]

I suspect Obama is hoping there will be filibuster/denial action against this one. Then the Dems can go on about how 'Rethuglikkkans hate hispanics.' -- I mean why not ? It's how Obama became President.

[Chris_]

I don't.

I smell Snowe, Collins and other Republicans rushing to support her.

I just heard Jeff Sessions (R-AL) in a sound bite at the top of the hour news on the radio.  Apparently he's first in line to kiss her ass.

[shorty]

This choice is horrible. As an conservative American Hispanic I have known many Hispanics like Sotomayor. She is type of person who plays the race card to get what she wants and people like her and Barack Obama are the reason our society can't advance.