Posted on 08/10/2009 6:52:57 PM PDT by Kaslin
When Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina was explaining his decision to become one of the nine Republicans to support the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, he said it was made easier because she would not alter the ideological balance on the Supreme Court.
Having her replace Justice David Souter, a regular member of the liberal bloc, would not tilt the court further in that direction, he said. With all due respect to a senator I very much admire, I think he may underestimate the impact of having Sotomayor on the high court.
Certainly, there is a world of difference in personality between the taciturn New Englander who recently retired and the feisty New Yorker who will replace him. Souter was well-liked by his colleagues, but there is little evidence that he tried hard to influence them.
In any group as small as the nine-member Supreme Court, the departure of one person and the arrival of a very different one likely will alter the dynamics.
It is clearly the case that the two women who preceded Sotomayor on the court, Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, have had an outsized impact on their colleagues — and on the course of the law.
Ginsburg has been the most outspoken member of the liberal bloc, delivering blistering dissents from the bench and speaking in a way that has inspired action from her soul mates in the political branches.
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Right, Davey. It went from worst to absolute worst.
RINO Graham needs to go ...
Sotomayor for an empty tool bag would have been a bad trade.
Will she end up giving her colleagues, even the lefties, a constant headache?
Beyond the obvious lack of respect for the law (bias shown at so many different venues in remarks by Sotomayor), she will be on the bench at least another 20 years more than Souter.....allowing many years of biased agenda-driven decisions, and prolonging the time until we get a Court that actually STICKS STRICTLY TO THE ACTUAL WORDS IN THE U.S. Constitution, instead of trying to re-write it and make it a “Living Document” (aka, changing to fit their agenda and appease the Liberals).
We know why you voted the way that you did goober... we know.
LLS
Unfortunately, he isn’t up for reelection until 2014
I am heartened by one thing. It’s pretty obvious she won’t be very persuasive with her race-based jurisprudence. SCOTUS hasn’t been impressed with her reasoning in reversing her opinions. I can’t imagine her persuading Kennedy (the swing vote) of jack squat.
She’s an ethno-centric race-obsessed liberal jurist who has little use for the actual words of the Constitution and who is going to use foreign law or her ethnic world view to decide cases. That’s what passes for liberal jurisprudence these days.
Unpersuasive. Hopefully her continued poor legal reasoning may convince some folks of the folly of putting liberals on a court who don’t respect plain language and claim that the Constitution can “breathe”.
80% of Sotomayor’s decisions which reached the Supreme Court were overturned - she is clearly biased against white males, and wants to substitute her own feelings and values for the written law - she will be so far out of the accepted and reasonable standards of legal argument and procedure that she will become essentially a pariah on the Court and will have very little influence on the rest of the Supremes...sorry, David.....
That a dreck judge Sotomayor gets to be appointed to the SCOTUS and a brilliant constitutionalist like Bork gets rejected is a travesty of liberal incompetence.
Graham is an idiot. Sotomeyor for Souter was an uneven trade: She’s young, he was old. It tilts the balance in the future.
I have a feeling she might. I read an opinion about her nomination, and the author said that none of her rulings showed any legal-rhetorical brilliance.
The only problem with Broder’s theory is that Sotomayor is an intellectual lightweight who also has a reputation for being obnoxious. It is more likely she will have the other members of the court rolling their eyes than changing their minds.
Gaging from how the folk are feeling just about now I would suggest an impeachment petition immediately! Kick that STUPID RINO out unto the curb!! PRONTO!
We traded a liberal who discriminates out of guilt for one who discriminates for enjoyment.
I dunno, but I suspect Roberts, Scalia et al will privately shake their heads.
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