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   tracht47 said, 6 months ago

   What they want is a conservative republican. Elections don’t count.

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   believecommonsense said, 6 months ago

   lotsa truth here, Roberts is considered a judicial activist … Repubs, your hippo-cracy is overflowing like a plugged toilet

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   danielsangeo said, 6 months ago

   Not only that, bcs, but they are complaining already about Obama seeking to “ram” her nomination through. They say that they don’t want to be rushed (unlike the Roberts nomination).

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   motivemagus said, 6 months ago

   Time for an “up-or-down” vote!

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   cdward said, 6 months ago

   Let’s see, she was appointed by George H.W. Bush to the federal bench and is praised by judges on all sides of the political spectrum. Works for me.

   Have no clue what Andy’s comment is supposed to mean.

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   Simon_Jester said, 6 months ago

   ANandy’s comment is an irrelevant reference to a remark made byby Michelle Obama during the election campaign.

   That’s all he has you know, anger and hatred.

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   HOWGOZIT said, 6 months ago

   Confirm her and let’s get on with fixing the economy!

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   Nechyfer said, 6 months ago

   Agreed howgos, lets get on with it. George’s pat on the back should count for something, they put their henchmen in court in a blink of an eye.
   It is a moment to be proud for women and hispanics..to look forward.

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   motivemagus said, 6 months ago

   If Jesse Helms can vote for her, so can a couple of other Republican senators. Move on!

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    Right_On said, 6 months ago

    There will be a long line of left-wing judicial activists behind this one, should the right shoot her down.

    Besides, a BHO style-filibuster will create too much of a CO2 footprint and be grounds for cap and tax!!

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    Greeneyed Texan said, 6 months ago

    Looking at her judical record, she is a little too liberal in her judgements for me but then she seems well qualified and that is what counts. I say vote her in Congress! Don’t take more than a week checking her over.
    
    Get to work. Earn your income.!

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    dwill said, 6 months ago

    Looks like the right wing can want in one had and poop in the other, then see which gets filled first

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    jmworacle said, 6 months ago

    Justice Sotomayor should go through the same scrutiny that was applied to Robert Bork.

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    nomad2112 said, 6 months ago

    Good idea the GOP should get their chance to “Bork” Sotomayor ! ! !

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    curiosity1 said, 6 months ago

    Every ruling made by any justice is an act of activism to the party that that justice ruled against.

    Even the supposed ‘strict constructionists’ operate based on their own interpretation of the written words of the constitution.

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    M Kitt said, 6 months ago

    For a supreme court that placed W in office to be now so much further to the right (IE Roberts/Alito) the GOP has quite the nerve to complain….their idea of judicial quality is someone that values religion over law and loyalty to party over civil rights……..

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    nomad2112 said, 6 months ago

    President Obama has promised to nominate liberal judicial activists who will indulge their left-wing policy preferences based on “empathy” instead of neutrally in applying the law. In selecting Sonia Sotomayor as his Supreme Court nominee, President Obama has carried out his promise.

    In a speech as a Court of Appeals judge, she said, “The court is where policy is made.” Her opinions have followed that approach. What she was referring to was that public policy was made by the Court of Appeals, not by the Legislature.

    In a recent case, Ricci v. DeStefano, Sotomayor ruled that reverse racism was to be used in making decisions. She ruled in favor of a city that used racially discriminatory practices to deny promotions to firefighters. In Ricci, an applicant to be a firefighter scored the highest on the test but was denied the job because he was not black.

    According to Judge Jose Cabranes, Sotomayor’s colleague, Sotomayor’s opinion “contains no reference whatsoever to the constitutional claims at the core of this case,” and its “perfunctory disposition rests uneasily with the weighty issues presented by this appeal.” Even the liberal Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen expressed disappointment with the case, stating, “Ricci is not just a legal case but a man who has been deprived of the pursuit of happiness on account of race.”

    Sotomayor readily admits that she applies her feelings and personal politics when deciding cases. In a 2002 speech given at Berkeley, she said she believes it is appropriate for judges to consider their “experiences as women and people of color,” which she believes should “affect our decisions.” She went on to say in that same speech, “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”

    The poor quality of Sotomayor’s decisions is reflected in her record of reversals by the Supreme Court. Sixty percent of her decisions have been reversed by the Supreme Court.

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    believecommonsense said, 6 months ago

    ^ The poor quality of Sotomayor’s decisions is reflected in her record of reversals by the Supreme Court. Sixty percent of her decisions have been reversed by the Supreme Court.”

    Cite a source other than Rush Limblah

    and If Congress found Clarence Thomas to be qualified, any one with a law degree is qualified

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    oldlegodad said, 6 months ago

    She has a closet…

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    fennec said, 6 months ago

    The SCOTUS picks and chooses which cases it will hear. It reverses 75% of those decisions on average. Sotomayor has had 60% of her decisions that the Court heard reversed. Her record is as good as Alito’s or Souter’s.
    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/5/26/735716/-The-Truth-About-Sonia-Sotomayors-Reversal-Rate

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    believecommonsense said, 6 months ago

    to be factual …. sixty percent of her decisions that were heard by the Supreme Court were reversed. That’s three out of five. Not 60 percent of the nearly 400 decisions she’s written.

    And as fennec stated, the supreme Court reverses about 75 percent of the cases it chooses to hear, so her reversal rate is below average.

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    motivemagus said, 6 months ago

    nomad, go read the link I posted. Or go here, to see the latest from Glenn Greenwald about Sotomayor. He’s a law scholar in his own right and has a better perspective.

    http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/