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Sotomayor declines to talk about abortion views
AP on Yahoo ^ | 7/15/09 | David Espo and Mark Sherman - ap

Posted on 07/15/2009 8:41:20 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON – Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor declined repeatedly at Senate confirmation hearings Wednesday to disclose her views on abortion rights, and said President Barack Obama never asked her about the issue before he chose her for the bench.

"I can't answer ... because I can't look at it in the abstract," she told Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., as he sought to draw her out with questions about hypothetical cases.

Even if she knew more about the specifics of a case, she added, "I probably couldn't opine because I'm sure that situation might well arise before the court."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; abortion; bhoabortion; declines; hearings; sotomayor; views
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To: NormsRevenge

‘I probably couldn’t opine because I’m sure that situation might well arise before the court.’

Ok, then how about, boxers or briefs?...kissing on the first date?...chocolate or vanilla? Um...


21 posted on 07/15/2009 9:06:13 AM PDT by Leg Olam (Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you. - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Pistolshot; NormsRevenge
Sonja has had Type I diabetes for 47 years. Dry eyes is one of the more tolerable symptoms that can arise ~ ain't no thang!

What is disturbing is that she has another symptom that can take her out of action for long periods of time and pretty much block court action ~ she can't walk across an airport concourse without breaking bones in her ankles or feet.

What's going to happen when she hits the marble floors at the Supreme Court.

22 posted on 07/15/2009 9:06:15 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

>>The “Catholic majority” thing was reached when Alito was seated.

From many Protestant points of view the “Catholic majority” existed when Rhenquist (Lutheran) and O’Connor (Episcopal) sat with three or four other Catholic Justices.<<

I did know that - I meant this secures that majority.


23 posted on 07/15/2009 9:07:15 AM PDT by gondramB
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To: stephenjohnbanker

>>What we will get is La Raza on the Supreme Court.<<

Yeah... I know.... sigh.


24 posted on 07/15/2009 9:08:10 AM PDT by gondramB
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To: gondramB
When you have 5 out of 9 the majority is "secured".

If you mean "Hey,we can lose a Catholic justice and still have a majority", technically that's a "secure majority", but it's not a "guaranteed majority" since you could have two retirees, or two deaths, or two just not showing up simultaneously.

Sotomayor, based on her other affiliations, is probably not a "good Catholic".

25 posted on 07/15/2009 9:10:40 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: gondramB

It really doesn’t matter what her position is on abortion.

Not a single Supreme Court justice has ever admitted the personhood of the unborn.

All Catholic Supreme Court justices to date are, in my opinon, Formal Catholic Heretics.


26 posted on 07/15/2009 9:13:49 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: NormsRevenge

She speaks like a politician...never the truth. She dances around questions like abortion but the 2nd. Amend as well.


27 posted on 07/15/2009 9:23:33 AM PDT by JamesA (He who hesitates is lost.)
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To: NormsRevenge
Even if she knew more about the specifics of a case, she added, "I probably couldn't opine because I'm sure that situation might well arise before the court."

Well, she shouldn't have much to worry about as she has already stated that Roe v Wade was settled law.

28 posted on 07/15/2009 9:24:36 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (ABC-AP-MSNBC-All Obama, All the time.)
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To: jacknhoo

>>Not a single Supreme Court justice has ever admitted the personhood of the unborn.<<

Is that true? Even the dissenters in Roe?


29 posted on 07/15/2009 9:24:45 AM PDT by gondramB
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To: Tarpon

If she can’t answer; perhaps she shouldn’t be on the SC.


30 posted on 07/15/2009 9:42:21 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: freekitty
She is lying, just not very well ... Purgery?
31 posted on 07/15/2009 9:52:22 AM PDT by Tarpon (You abolish your responsibilities, you surrender your rights.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor declined repeatedly at Senate confirmation hearings Wednesday to disclose her views on abortion rights, and said President Barack Obama never asked her about the issue before he chose her for the bench.

The reason is simple, the thought and verbal response causes her to smile broadly and send a tingle up her leg at the thought of all those babies being murdered just like her hero the current squatter soiling the Whitehouse.


32 posted on 07/15/2009 10:11:25 AM PDT by chiefqc
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To: Tarpon

I don’t know how legal terms apply to these hearings.


33 posted on 07/15/2009 10:23:07 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: freekitty

She is sworn in, and sworn to tell the truth ... Lying to Congress has the same penalty as purgery does, felony.


34 posted on 07/15/2009 10:25:38 AM PDT by Tarpon (You abolish your responsibilities, you surrender your rights.)
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To: Tarpon

I wish to heck they would inforce it. How does it apply to Senators that are knowingly lying?


35 posted on 07/15/2009 10:30:53 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: gondramB
That's right...none....not even the dissenters.

We have only one way to establish the personhood of the unborn and that single way is through the legislature, not the judicial system. The judges hands are somewhat tied, especially now, because of past errors where people somehow believed judges made policy (kind of like Sotamayor has stated she believes). Judges apply the law, supposedly. Who makes the law? Who makes a person a person in our constitutional law? The legislature does...in effect, we do, since our legislature is supposed to be representative of us. We must get Pro-Life persons in office and get this on the ballots and let the people vote on it and make the law...make the constitutional (state and federal) amendments which includes the unborn as a person, just like we did for black persons. It baffles me that people people don't see the link. What was the reasoning for denying rights to blacks? The answer is personhood...they were some fraction (three fifths, I recall) of a person and not considered a whole person...so, we could treat them as sub-human objects. Well, it disgusts many that this occurred and it disgusts many that it occurs today for the unborn.

Regardless, it is not important what the Supreme Court justice believes in their heart or faith as far as personhood of the unborn is concerned. It is important what the law has defined to be a person, regarding Supreme Court justices.

Just like the sexually deviant are overturning traditional marriage, the Pro-Life need to overturn this legal child murder. This is beginning with one state constitution and then another. Legislate! Legislate! Legislate! These are simple facts to understand and I believe all politicians know this truth. Of all the politicians that have publically "claimed" to be pro-life, but extremely few have ever attempted to establish this personhood. The politicains who have sat back on their laurels and done nothing while claiming to be pro-life are quite dubious indeed - using votes of the pro-life voters to get in office knowing very well there could be little to nothing done on it without state and federal constitutional amendments. Look at california...their constitution has been amended 512 times and not once has the 1.5 million children muredered by their mothers every year played in their priorites....disgusting. And another fact that is disgusting is how the blacks and women can select the sexually deviant to identify and empathize with, regarding civil rights (sexuality is a behavior and there are good and bad behaviors) all the while hatefully denying civil rights to the most innocent and defenseless human persons in the world.

36 posted on 07/15/2009 12:01:52 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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