<sniff, sniff>...I smell filibuster.
The pundits are saying she is an intellectual lightweight.
So she'll blend in well with the rest of the Administration?
<sniff, sniff>...I smell filibuster.
That would probably require a lot more balls than the Senate Republicans can muster.
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
<sniff, sniff>...I smell filibuster.
That would probably require a lot more balls than the Senate Republicans can muster.
<sniff, sniff>...I smell filibuster.I don't.
I smell McCain, Graham-nasty, Snowe, Collins and other Republicans rushing to support her.
Hi,Liberals Sketch Out Dreams and Limits for Supreme Court (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124328690467052025.html)
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
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.
I don't.
I smell McCain, Graham-nasty, Snowe, Collins and other Republicans rushing to support her.
Fixorated. :II: (gotta get the leaders of the bend and scrape caucus included by name)
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."
I don't.
I smell Snowe, Collins and other Republicans rushing to support her.
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.
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.http://volokh.com/posts/1243364120.shtml
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.
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.
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."
Sotomayor’s Notable Court Opinions and Articles.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/05/26/us/0526-scotus.html
Isn't her reversal rate about 80% as a judge? I think Rush said something along those lines today.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?