President Obama calls Sonia Sotomayor (below) to wish her good luck at her confirmation hearings that start Monday.
Posted on 07/13/2009 4:39:03 AM PDT by STARWISE
The leading Judiciary Committee Republican is charging that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is "out of the mainstream" of legal thinking and has a very activist judicial profile.
Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama made the assertion just hours before Sotomayor, who would be the third woman to join the court, was to face her initial confirmation hearing.
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President Obama calls Sonia Sotomayor (below) to wish her good luck at her confirmation hearings that start Monday.
It’s all over but the crying. There’s no way she doesn’t get in. Not when they have 60 votes.
She would fit right into the United States Senate then!!!!!!!
If all eight GOP members of the Judiciary Committee stick together and vote “no” on her nomination, it goes nowhere.
Until the Dems change the Committe rules, that is.
Does the GOP have the guts to do this? Sotomayor is clearly unqualified to be on the Supreme Court.
The Dems skewered every SC nominee by the Republicans since Bork in 1987.
It should not be a matter of letting the President have their nominees, when they are radical, unqualified, and prejudiced. Look at the radical Ginsburg, who finally admitted that eugenices was a reason for Roe v. Wade, in her view.
Democrats are the enemy of freedom.
The linked source, title and content doesn’t line up with what you have posted in the main article section of this thread. Do you have a working link for the story?
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Are the Republicans going to find their spines to object?
Dam&it ... they changed the title ...!! The title I posted was the exact wording 15 mins. ago ... jeesh. Let me see if I can find it.
I guess it was 25 mins ago when it was out there .. it’s changed. That is SO maddening.
New title - 16 minutes ago — same reporter and link
Sessions and Schumer defer on Sotomayor style
Can you change it to the current title please ?
If BO nominated Hugo Chavez, the GOP would rumble a little and then confirm his nomination.
Not one patriot in the Senate!
I can’t believe they change their headlines like that .. poof .. it’s another one!
They’ve even changed the wording! I’ll leave it to your
discretion .. sorry that you have to get involved in this aggravation. What are they rewriting for ?
Here’s exactly what I posted ... it was picked up by a blog:
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Leading Judiciary Republican charges Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor ‘out of mainstream’
Mark Sherman
July 13th, 2009
Sonia-SotomayorSupreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor ‘out of mainstream’
WASHINGTON — The leading Judiciary Committee Republican is charging that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is “out of the mainstream” of legal thinking and has a very activist judicial profile.
Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama made the assertion just hours before Sotomayor, who would be the third woman to join the court, was to face her initial confirmation hearing.
Thank you VERY much. This is nutz.
My reference post with all the links ?
But during a Megan Kelly (FNC) interview of Sessions last week she asked the question - paraphrasing "If all Republicans on the committee vote no, then the nomination does not move forward, could that happen"?"
Sessions responded "I don't think that is true at least it is not the way the committee has operated over the last few years."
Just Damn!
CSPAN COVERAGE: Confirmation Hearings Begin for Judge Sonia Sotomayor - 10:00 a.m. edt
Leahy, Sessions Announce Witness List For Sotomayor Hearing
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Sessions "Flabbergasted" by Sotomayor's Philosophy
Excerpt:
Republican Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama said today that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's judicial philosophy, as articulated in her speeches, marks "a blow, I think, at the very ideal of American justice."
"In a number of her speeches, for example, she has advocated a view that suggests that your personal experiences, even prejudices — she uses that word — it's expected that they would influence a decision you make," he told "Face The Nation" host Bob Schieffer.
*snip*
"When you show empathy for one party, Bob, you necessarily show a bias against another group."
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Sonia Sotomayor cramming in practice sessions near the West Wing
Excerpt:
These days, federal appeals court Judge Sonia Sotomayor is not in her New York chambers. She's not weighing cases or interrogating counsel or even writing opinions.
Instead, with hearings to start Monday in the historic, much-anticipated Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation process, Sotomayor is holed up in a small office in the Eisenhower Old Executive Office Building next to the White House. "She's got to hit the books," said Thomas Goldstein, a D.C. appellate attorney. "They can ask you about any part of the law. And she's got to be ready for that."
In an earlier round of get-acquainted-sessions, Sotomayor met with 70 of the Senate's 100 ......members, which should help the cordiality quotient. And the newest senator, Minnesota's Al Franken, has already tipped his hand that he plans to ask her about campaign finance laws, expected to come before the court this session.
Charles E. Schumer ~ New York Democrat
Leading the confirmation effort in the Senate as the White House-designated “sherpa” to guide Judge Sotomayor on Capitol Hill. Urged the president to nominate a Hispanic to the Supreme Court in a letter, recommending Judge Sotomayor and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/06/19/us/politics/0619-scotus.html
I’m embarrassed to say I don’t know all 8 of the GOP members, but I do know they are not all conservative, a couple of Rhinos on the panel. I adore Jeff Sessions though. He’s been good to Alabama.
Hmm .. I’m counting 7
Key Players in the Sotomayor Nomination
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/06/19/us/politics/0619-scotus.html
All 8 should vote no. A bumper sticker theme needs to be established and repeated, non stop. It time for them to eat their own crap.
Oh crud! It’s a done deal, Lindsey Graham and Orrin Hatch are on the committee. They will vote for, Graham’s already hinted he would. In other news though, I would kinda like to see a staunch republican go toe to toe with the newest senator on the committee, you know the one I’m talking about. He claims he was a “comedian”. I never laughed though. :/
Committee Members
Dimocrats
Patrick J. Leahy
Chairman, D-Vermont
Herb Kohl
D-Wisconsin
Dianne Feinstein
D-California
Russell D. Feingold
D-Wisconsin
Charles E. Schumer
D-New York
Richard J. Durbin
D-Illinois
Benjamin L. Cardin
D-Maryland
Sheldon Whitehouse
D-Rhode Island
Amy Klobuchar
D-Minnesota
Edward E. Kaufman
D-Delaware
Arlen Specter
D-Pennsylvania
Al Franken
D-Minnesota
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Republicans
Jeff Sessions
Ranking Member, R-Alabama
Orrin G. Hatch
R-Utah
Charles E. Grassley
R-Iowa
Jon Kyl
R-Arizona
Lindsey Graham
R-South Carolina
John Cornyn
R-Texas
Tom Coburn
R-Oklahoma
Yeah ... who you kiddin, Lindsey?
Deals, deals, backroom deals .. that’s
what they all do, and all we see is
how they vote.
*snips*
The amicus curiae brief, reported late last month by U.S. News and World Report’s Bonnie Erbe, addressed the Supreme Court concerning the 1989 case Webster v. Reproductive Health Services.
The case involved a complaint by various Missouri abortion providers against a state law defining conception as the beginning of life and disallowing public facilities to be used for abortions.
The Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF), on whose Board of Directors Sonia Sotomayor served at the time, was among the many pro-abortion interest groups that signed the brief.
In summarizing the interests of the petitioning parties, the brief states: “All Amici share an urgent concern that the Court clearly and unequivocally reaffirm Roe v. Wade.... They fear that any tampering with the right to abortion recognized in Roe will have a powerful, adverse impact on the liberty, equality and health of poor women and women of color.”
The brief also argues that laws requiring abortions to be performed in hospitals would place undue burden on minority and low-income women seeking abortions.
“If, as a member of PRLDEF’s board, Judge Sotomayor had objected to any of this language, she could have attempted to stop the group from lending its name to the amicus brief, and she did not,” wrote Erbe.
“Big sigh of relief from the pro-choice crowd!”
“Now we know why President Obama said that Judge Sotomayor shared his view of ‘the Constitution’ and why the White House reassured pro-abortion organizations,” commented Americans United for Life Senior Counsel Clarke Forsythe.
“If Judge Sotomayor holds the position that she signed onto via the PRDF’s brief, then, if an abortion-related case comes up on the docket, it will lead to her reading the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) into the Constitution by judicial interpretation.”
The brief is significant as one more clue amid a relatively small pile of evidence that shines light on Sotomayor’s thoughts on abortion. However, in the days since President Obama nominated her to fill the seat of retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter, a clearer picture has emerged of Sotomayor as a steadily liberal nominee who is expected to uphold Roe v. Wade.
After meeting with Sotomayor last week, pro-abortion senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) agreed that the nominee made it “very clear” that she would not favor overturning Roe v. Wade.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jun/09060802.html
Is it just FR they deny the photos to, or are there other sites as well that they deny them to, meaning leftwing sites.
I wouldn’t bet the paycheck on it.
I think you err in believing that they even have spines to find in the first place.
Sotomayor could also get Grassley.
Has it started yet? I don’t find it on any of the cable news channels nor on either C-SPAN channel.
LOL
FNC prepping ... starts at 10am edt
“Lindsey GrahamSouth Carolina Republican Like Senator Kyl, he directed most of his criticism at Mr. Obama. Said Judge Sotomayor was an “impressive person” who has “accomplished a lot in life.” But added that “as a conservative Republican,.....”
“...as a conservative Republican...” PROVE IT!
Thank you.
Soto may also get Kyl.
;)
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court - Sonia Sotomayor - Questionnaire
http://judiciary.senate.gov/nominations/SupremeCourt/Sotomayor/SoniaSotomayor-Questionnaire.cfm
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This is going to be very interesting ... there’ll probably be a lot of bloviating, as each Judiciary Committee member will be getting 30 minute sessions.
I can’t remember what the old timeframe was, but it sure wasn’t 30 minutes. I’m wondering who changed it, why, what the motive was, and what will be the result as the senators fill that time with their questions and her responses.
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*snip*
THE LEAD PLAYERS
Chairman Leahy, D-Vt.
If he looks familiar, it could be because he’s been in the Senate for more than three decades and participated in hearings of every Supreme Court nominee since now-retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Or it could be the Batman movies. With white hair and bifocals, the man with the gavel has had cameos in all of them, and a speaking part in “The Dark Knight.”
Leahy, 69, will be in charge of keeping senators to their
allotted 30 minutes for questions,
tamping down the inevitable showboating and issuing stern warnings to any protesters who get out of hand.
It’s good to be chairman, by the way: He can allot himself all the time he wants to rebut points Republicans try to make or to ask clarifying questions of the nominee. Leahy was a state prosecutor for eight years before coming to the Senate. The grandfather of five is an avid photographer seen at previous hearings snapping pictures of news photographers as they snap photos of him.
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Ranking Republican Jeff Sessions of Alabama.
Taking his first turn as the lead Republican at a Supreme Court hearing, the 62-year-old Sessions will sit next to Leahy and, in broad terms, try to reassure the vanquished GOP base that their interests are being represented in this most visible forum.
Sessions wants to know whether Sotomayor allows personal views, not just the law, to influence her rulings. He has raised doubts about her support for the constitutional right to keep and bear arms and her association with a Puerto Rican civil rights group before she became a federal judge 17 years ago.
But conservative critics of Sotomayor have been unable to get the Senate’s 40 Republicans to stand together against her, and Sessions has said he doesn’t “sense a filibuster in the works” to block her confirmation.
Personally and politically, he’s got big shoes to fill and a delicate line to walk in this role. Sessions is succeeding the sharp-tongued Specter, chairman at the previous two Supreme Court hearings.
Sessions, in his third term, has plenty of experience grilling witnesses; he’s a former federal prosecutor. But he has stumbled over issues of race. Comments he allegedly made sank his own nomination by President Ronald Reagan to be a federal judge.
Rest here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090713/ap_on_go_co/us_sotomayor_senate_roles
As we see in the pic above even Carter covered up his shirt sleeves with the famous sweater he wore when he ordered the room temperature set at freezing to "save energy".
Then we see the Cheshire Rat laughing at the people of America attired in full polo shirt disrespect.
I suspect his golf bag and cleats are to be found every day atop a $93,000 antique Duncan Phyfe table next to the entry door.
Leni
All the key board pounding, wailing, and gnashing of teeth is not going to change the outcome nor serve as a satisfactory catharsis.
I, for one, am going to engage in productive endeavor and ignore the hearings.
Does it strike you as nearly past belief that one of the senators questioning her today will be Stuart Smiley?
Sidebar
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As a district judge, she advanced First Amendment religious claims by tossing out a state prison rule banning members of a religious sect from wearing colored beads to ward off evil spirits, and by rejecting a suburban law preventing the display of a 9-foot-high menorah in a park.
In 1995, she released the suicide note of former White House aide Vincent Foster, acting on litigation brought by the Wall Street Journal under the Freedom of Information Act.
Sotomayor, who has a brother who became a doctor, presided over a civil trial in 1996 in which the family of a lawyer who died from AIDS sued the makers of the movie “Philadelphia,” contending that Hollywood stole their story.
The case was settled, but not before the movie with its dramatic courtroom showdowns was played for the jury in its entirety, prompting Sotomayor to caution: “I don’t expect melodrama here. I don’t want anybody aspiring to what they see on the screen.”
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/politics&id=6831739
Totally ... and I found this in my surfing
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Back in his “Saturday Night Live” days in 1991, during the X-rated Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, Al Franken played a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee less interested in the nominee’s qualifications for the U.S. Supreme Court than in his own chances with a cute government receptionist.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view.bg?articleid=1184468
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Beyond surreal and sickening.
And if I hear one more comment from Schumer or Feinstein about how incredible, how enthralling and amazing her story is, when NOTHING compares to the outhouse existence of Clarence Thomas .. I will SCREAM!
Well, Karl Rove just told Megyn that the Repubs have to vote for her or they will be targeted by the Dems in the future as voting against a Hispanic. But it’s okay that Barry wanted to filibuster Alito.
Love it—Bret Baier keeps cutting off Chuck Schumer...not an easy task.
Today will be interesting, but tomorrow will be the key day. Today it will just be a bunch of bloviating senators and opening statements. Tomorrow she has to answer questions.
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