Obama to Announce Sotomayor As Supreme Court Nominee

[Chris]

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.

This woman would be a disaster.

In 1999, the village of Port Chester, N.Y., established a "redevelopment area" and gave its designated developer, Gregg Wasser, a virtual blank check to condemn property within it. In 2003, property owners Bart Didden and Dominick Bologna approached Wasser for permission to build a CVS pharmacy on land they own inside the zone. His response: Either pay me $800,000 or give me a 50% partnership interest in the CVS project. Wasser threatened to have the local government condemn the land if his demands weren't met. When the owners refused to oblige, their property was condemned the next day.

Didden and Bologna challenged the condemnation in federal court, on the grounds that it was not for a "public use," as the Fifth Amendment requires. Their view, quite simply, was that out-and-out extortion does not qualify as a public use. Nonetheless, the 2d Circuit . . . upheld this flexing of political muscle.

http://volokh.com/posts/1243364120.shtml

[shorty]

She will be a disaster. I think the worst thing going in our country is that people like her Obama and Bill Richarson have power in this country.

[Chris_]

She will be a disaster. I think the worst thing going in our country is that people like her Obama and Bill Richarson have power in this country.

Ultimately she is no worse than the asshat - David Souter - she is replacing.  She may actually be a little better even, in that she apparently isn't as skilled at couching her opinions in neutral, lovey, hopey, changey speak as he was (remember, he was appointed by Bush(41) who aparently didn't think he had the testicular fortitude to get someone other than a barking moonbat through a Democrat-controlled Senate).  That being the case, it'll be harder for TOTUS or the Senate to pass her off as anything other than the activist moonbat she is.

It's not like John Roberts was shot down by ghey rioters on the courthouse steps, folks.

[djones520]

Huh...  look what I just found on Drudge...  democrats being racist?  Say it ain't so.

November 7, 2001/To: Senator Durbin
"The groups singled out three--Jeffrey Sutton (6th Circuit); Priscilla Owen (5th Circuit); and Caroline [sic] Kuhl (9th Circuit)--as a potential nominee for a contentious hearing early next year, with a [sic] eye to voting him or her down in Committee. They also identified Miguel Estrada (D.C. Circuit) as especially dangerous, because he has a minimal paper trail, he is Latino, and the White House seems to be grooming him for a Supreme Court appointment. They want to hold Estrada off as long as possible."

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110004305

[Tucker]

Sotomayor’s Notable Court Opinions and Articles.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/05/26/us/0526-scotus.html

[5412]

Sotomayor’s Notable Court Opinions and Articles.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/05/26/us/0526-scotus.html

Hi,

This is courtesy of the NYT.

“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,” said Judge Sotomayor, who is now considered to be near the top of President Obama’s list of potential Supreme Court nominees.

Now I would like to ask a reasonable person this one question.  Substitute the word white for Latina in the first part of the sentence, and put Latina back in the second part and tell me if a judge who said that would have any chance at being approved by the senate, much less even being nominated.....

I am so damn sick of the double standard.  Of course when it comes to giving illegals amnesty and citizenship you know darn well where this "empathetic" lady would stand.

regards,
5412

[rich_t]

Isn't her reversal rate about 80% as a judge?  I think Rush said something along those lines today.

[Chris]

Isn't her reversal rate about 80% as a judge?  I think Rush said something along those lines today.

I heard the same thing... I tried to find it earlier today.  This is the transcript for today's show:

One more little bit of information here about Appellate Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor: "The Supreme Court has reversed Judge Sotomayor in four instances where it granted certiorari to review an opinion she authored." Now, I say this again: "The Supreme Court has reversed Judge Sotomayor in four instances where it granted certiorari to review an opinion she authored. "In three of these reversals, the Court held that Judge Sotomayor erred in her statutory interpretation," meaning she goofed up on the law. She was overturned four times when she wrote the opinion, the lead opinion, and in three of the four cases the Supreme Court held that she erred in her statutory interpretation.  The cases are Knight v. C.I.R., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. Dabit, New York Times, Inc. v. Tasini, and Correctional Servs. Corp. v. Malesko. The cases are 2008, 2006, 2001, and 2001.  So there you have it. 

She's about as qualified to be a Supreme Court justice as Obama is to be the President.  Scratch that, she may actually be a legal citizen.

I wonder if she remembered to pay her taxes.

[thundley4]

There is also an upcoming case for the USSC in which she let stand a lower court ruling involving reverse discrimination.  

[Chris]

There is also an upcoming case for the USSC in which she let stand a lower court ruling involving reverse discrimination.  

Wouldn't she have to excuse herself from the case?  Not that I actually expect her to, but I believe Scalia (or Roberts) had to do so recently.

[thundley4]

Wouldn't she have to excuse herself from the case?  Not that I actually expect her to, but I believe Scalia (or Roberts) had to do so recently.

I think the case may reach the USSC before Souter retires. It involves a few firefighters from New Haven not being promoted after passing the exams.

[Rebel]

Here's your FIRST Hispanic judge:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_N._Cardozo

Cardozo was born in New York City, the son of Rebecca Washington (née Nathan) and Albert Jacob Cardozo. Both Cardozo's maternal grandparents, Sara Seixas and Isaac Mendes Seixas Nathan, and his paternal grandparents, Ellen Hart and Michael H. Cardozo, were Sephardi Jews; their families immigrated from England before the American Revolution, and were descended from Jews who left the Iberian Peninsula for Holland during the Inquisition. Cardozo family tradition held that their ancestors were Marranos from Portugal, although Cardozo's ancestry has not been firmly traced to Portugal.

it is NOT this leftist loon who thinks it's OK to discriminate against whitey and that Appeals Court justices make policy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic

Hispanic (Spanish: hispano, hispánico) is a term that historically denoted relation to the ancient Hispania (geographically coinciding with the Iberian Peninsula). During the modern era it took on a more limited meaning relating to the contemporary nation of Spain.

[Tess Anderson]

She's a La Raza operative??? La RAZA???

And, according to "our" RNC chairman Michael Steele via RCP, we need to:

While guest hosting Bill Bennett's morning radio program, RNC Chairman Michael Steele said Republicans should stop "slamming and ramming" on Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Steele added it is important to understand the "historical aspect" of her nomination.

It's all over. I don't see how this country can ever recover now.

[The Village Idiot]

She's a La Raza operative??? La RAZA???

And, according to "our" RNC chairman Michael Steele via RCP, we need to:

It's all over. I don't see how this country can ever recover now.

The opposition party needs to oppose, otherwise whats the point?

[Chris_]

The opposition party needs to oppose, otherwise whats the point?

There is no Opposition Party in America.  Just as in the days of Comrade Franklin Roosevelt's administration, the Republicans are the party of "Me too".