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Becoming a Supreme Court justice was a shock, Sotomayor says
LA Times ^ | June 20, 2014 | By TIMOTHY M. PHELPS

Posted on 06/20/2014 1:25:49 PM PDT by Jim Robinson

My mving to Washington and becoming a Supreme Court justice five years ago was shocking, “like somebody throwing cold water on me,” says Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

The transition from being a little known appeals court judge in her hometown of New York to being an easily recognized Washington personality was extremely difficult, Sotomayor said.

“People stop treating you like a person,” she said. “It’s hard for someone like me who really likes people and wants to have living room conversations that are not posted on Twitter.”

Her comments came in a wide-ranging and, for a Supreme Court justice, unusually candid conversation about her life during the annual convention of the American Constitution Society, a liberal lawyers group, Thursday evening...

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: judicialactivist; liberalactivist; liberalprogressive; scotus; sotomayor; surrenderliberty; wiselatina
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To: Jim Robinson
Yes, it is shocking that someone would be selected for the highest court in the land based on nothing much other than their gender and ethnicity.
21 posted on 06/20/2014 1:59:40 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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Affirmative action ain’t pretty. When it was “time” for the first woman on the Supreme Court, they picked a judge who was not only sitting on a state court rather than a federal court, but wasn’t even on that state’s highest court. It was a transparent move, and I say this as someone who thinks Sandra Day O’Connor actually was a competent justice.


22 posted on 06/20/2014 2:03:36 PM PDT by jumpingcholla34
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To: jumpingcholla34

Shocks me incessantly! Un-American as they come!


23 posted on 06/20/2014 2:05:16 PM PDT by DocJhn
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That she would be a janitor in an elementary school would shock me. Talk about unqualified for most anything...


24 posted on 06/20/2014 2:09:56 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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Hey Sonia, I feel your pain. Be glad affirmative action got you a job. And don’t insult me by expressing surprise you got the job.


25 posted on 06/20/2014 2:20:31 PM PDT by lesko
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In other words, she knows she is unqualified.

And numbskulls like Lindsey Graham voted for this unqualified nominee.


26 posted on 06/20/2014 2:44:30 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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What difference does it make? The president is elected, but this one is a puppet of puppets. The people around him do all the damage. We elect senators. They show up for votes and do what some unseen folks tell them to do. Judges are apparently the same now.


27 posted on 06/20/2014 2:48:47 PM PDT by petitfour
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Yeah, no s*** Sherlock

Incompetence beyond description would shock anyone


28 posted on 06/20/2014 3:14:43 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Shame on Sam The Sham . . . Michael ScAM . . .$$$ grab all planned by this "handlers")
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Becoming a Supreme Court justice was a shock, Sotomayor says

Shock to a lot of Americans, too...sweetie!! UGH!!

29 posted on 06/20/2014 3:22:50 PM PDT by GoldenPup
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““People stop treating you like a person,” she said”

That is because your not a normal person anymore, your a member of an elite group of self-empowered tyrants, who regularly dictate entirely new and entirely unwritten clauses to our Constitution to which all of us are made slaves to serve rather than free men to protected by.

So no your not a person, your a master, a dictator, and technically a tyrant given your power was never envisioned or legitimately ceded in any ‘written’ constitution. It is instead entirely a product of the unwritten “constitution” of your own making that is the source of your demonstratively boundless( thus constitution less) power.


30 posted on 06/20/2014 7:30:45 PM PDT by Monorprise
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