From a purely selfish point of view, Sotomayor may realize she will (probably) way outlast Obama’s presidency, barring no premature departure from the world, and I wonder if she was thinking if she lets a president get away with bullying the court like Obama’s been doing, and further arguing with extremely lame arguments, that it may set a precedent and ultimately she will be facing a republican/conservative administration, expecting the same precedent ability.
Who wants a potentially long career on SCOTUS where POTUS rolls them over and uses them as a rubber stamp - liberal ally or conservative adversary? Precedent will be set and will be expected by future administrations.
Or is it really more that the Obama admin’s arguments are SO LAME that even she can’t lower herself to try to support them? As it would severely tarnish her profile as independent and just a non-thinking vote for Obama?
I suppose it could more likely be the latter.
It’d be cool if Sotomayor had some actual intellectual integrity.
It is one of life’s ironies that the largest concentration of “mind numbed robots” is within the American Left. Your thesis on Sotomayor’s reasoning, and possible action on the court are based in rational thought and self interest.
My prediction is that at the end of the day, the Leftist votes on the court are going to line up and vote with Barry.
The authors of the Constitution were not worried about how they were going to impose their political agenda on the country. They were primarily concerned with how to PREVENT the other guy from cramming his/her political agenda down the throats of the country, without there being a very broad and deep consensus, established and maintained over time.
The brainless idiots typified by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid completely miss the point. Yeah, they have subverted the Constitution and imposed their will on the country with laws that should never have seen the light of day. But, they have crafted the tools for some future despot. Those tools might not only undo everything they have imposed, but would allow that despot to handle them just like Stalin handled his adversaries.