Posted on 07/12/2009 7:27:25 PM PDT by EagleUSA
WASHINGTON – Sonia Sotomayor has decided advantages as she begins the most important trial of her long legal career, a nationally televised consideration of her nomination to be the first Hispanic and just the third woman on the Supreme Court.
Beginning Monday, she will tell her compelling up-from-poverty personal story to a jury tilted strongly in her favor — Democrats hold a comfortable majority on the Senate Judiciary Committee and a filibuster-resistant 60 votes in the Senate.
Still, Republicans signaled that they will press the 55-year-old New Yorker and veteran federal judge to explain past rulings involving discrimination complaints and gun rights, as well as comments that they say raise doubts about Sotomayor's ability to judge cases fairly.
The sharpest comments about her so far came Sunday from Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the senior Republican on the committee.
Sotomayor has said repeatedly in speeches over the past 10 years that personal experiences influence a judge's decisions, Sessions said.
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"Elections do have consequences."
“Elections do have consequences.”
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Yes, and the consequences of a socialist-activist, Obama-pandering, law-ignoring SCOTUS is just too vile to imagine.
Gender reassignment changes is my opinion. YIKES!
The people will see through this charade eventually
Here we have possibly the worst SC candidate ever; and they are going to baby her.
What’s wrong with these people?
ONCE AGAIN, the GOP shows the White Feather. At this point, the Republican Bird probably looks like a Snow Goose.
If I remember corerctly, when Bush wanted to move up a conservative Hispanic in the Federal COurt System, the Democrats had No PROBLEMO in crucifying the guy - I can’t remember his name.
But here we are - situations reversed and guess what? The capons of the GOP flock are falling over each other to try to be deferential to this racist, sexist incompetent.
Amazing, isn’t it?
Of course she will face such, she is already a done deal...
This woman is probably the most unqualified person to ever be nominated to the SCOTUS (and that includes Harriet Myers) just because of her blatant racism and her statements that indicate she will not be impartial.
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I think even worse than just not being “impartial” (radical leftist) — she, like her might-be liberal colleagues on the SCOTUS, would use the high court as a political platform to further socialism and anti-Constitutionalism in America. That is the part that really bothers me — we have seen a big change in the role of court from an impartial judicial body there to interpret the written law, to a liberal socialist body there to WRITE LAW (legislate from the bench) AND SERVE THE POLITICAL INTERESTS OF THE RADICAL LEFT.
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