Leading Candidate for the Supreme Court Thinks "court of appeals is where policy is made" (Video)

YouTube ^ | 2005 | Judge Sonia Sotomayor (Judge of the Second Court of Appeals)

[kellynla]

Leading Supreme Court Candidate: Courts Make Policy.

Judge Sonia Sotomayor,"All of the legal defense funds out there-- they're looking for people with court of appeals experience. Because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law. [Laughs] I know. I know. [Laughter] I'm not promoting it, I'm not advocating it, I'm...y'know."

[kellynla]

And this clown is a sitting judge on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals???

[edcoil]

“O” needs to pick a serf, not a nobleman to represent the empathy of the people.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

*headdesk*

[phatus maximus]

This needs to be sprayed to the media...this kind of mentality cannot be allowed in the SCOTUS.

[PGalt]

Socialists desire to practice legal plunder, not illegal plunder. Socialists, like all other monopolists, desire to make the law their own weapon. And when once the law is on the side of socialism, how can it be used against socialism? For when plunder is abetted by the law, it does not fear your courts, your gendarmes, and your prisons. Rather, it may call upon them for help. - "The Law" Frédéric Bastiat

[RoseofTexas]

It's going from bad to worse...I agree, I fear for my grand kids future...God Help us!

[muawiyah]

Caught sight of a note that said she'd been a diabetic since childhood ~ not that there's anything wrong with that ~ but as Ruthy Ginsberg already proves, being handicapped and on the highest court leads to serious problems for lawabiding people.

I doubt the USSC could stand the strain with two of 'em.

[kellynla]

“This needs to be sprayed to the media...this kind of mentality cannot be allowed in the SCOTUS.”

I caught it on Hannity earlier tonight.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Sonia sure doesn't sound very bright. BO should recommend this guy. He's already got his own robe.

[kellynla]

Sonia's "handicap" is not in her diabetes...
she's just dumb as a box of rocks!
How she ever graduated HS much less receive a J.D. is a mystery to me!!!

[hunter112]

Guaranteed, it will be a ‘borking’ to end all borkings when Zero finally finds someone stupid enough to say, “Yes, I’ll accept the nomination, Mr. President.”

[HiTech RedNeck]

If she’s got serious health problems, it’s all the more likely she will shuffle off this mortal coil sooner than the average Supreme Court justice. Even with proper insulin management, diabetics can suffer a 20 or more years’ shortening of life span. Perhaps if it is Sotomeyer, the GOP in the Senate should softball things, saving political capital for the future. Treat her only as rough as they treated Harriet Miers.

[muawiyah]

How? Why this woman is a "threefer" ~ a minority, a female and a crippled person. (I'd say "crip" but some people think that's offensive, but as a diabetic I think I'm entitled to say "crip" anyway, jus' so's you'd know).

Not likely she could be a lead dancer with Yankee Daddy, but fur shur we don't want her there anyway.

I haven't read through her opinions all that much but we have had debates about her several years back ~ some think she's a centrist, some think she's a leftwingtard, no one thinks she's Conservative ~ and some think she's dumb as a box of rocks.

Frankly, I think diabetics presiding over serious questions of law in a formal setting is probably not a wise idea. Part of the problem is making sure they are not sitting there reading 60 on their handy, dandy meter but not realizing it because they are, after all, just sitting there. (60 is really low blood sugar). Alternatively, your typical diabetic ~ any kind ~ type 1, type 2 ~ can sit there with a 370 blood sugar reading and not notice it at all until they just fall over.

Undiagnosed diabetics are, of course, even worse. They not only don't care, they don't know!

[rockinqsranch]

Sonia Sotomayor

Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit

Incumbent

Assumed office October 7, 1998
Nominated by Bill Clinton
Preceded by J. Daniel Mahoney

Born June 25, 1954 (1954-06-25) (age 54)
The Bronx, New York

Nationality United States

Alma mater Princeton University, Yale Law School

[paul51]

How? Why this woman is a "threefer" ~ a minority, a female and a crippled person. (I'd say "crip" but some people think that's offensive, but as a diabetic I think I'm entitled to say "crip" anyway, jus' so's you'd know).

Are you really that ignorant?

[LostInBayport]

I caught it on Hannity earlier tonight.

I did too. The "wink wink, nudge nudge" manner of her admission of malpractice was appalling. This arrogant elitist is an offense to the intent and integrity of our justice system.

[KrisKrinkle]

“Because court of appeals is where policy is made.”

Given that this video is 34 seconds taken out of something else, and that her stated view is of the situation as it is, not of what it was intended to be, I have to wonder how wrong she might or might not be.

[kellynla]

“Yale Law School?”

she didn't learn much while she was there now did she...

shezzzzzzzzzzzzz...

I sometimes wonder how these clowns ever graduated HS much less college & law school??? and to think the ENTIRE D.O.J. is inundated with these clowns!!! Who the hell took the Bar for these morons!!!

[muawiyah]

You will have to ‘splain yourself in detail.

[SunkenCiv]

an oldie, I just read it a couple of days ago, seems appropriate here:

• Sarah Biden Vice-Presidential meltdown.