Sotomayor's Candid Progressive Moment

Bob Parks: Black & Right ^ | 5/5/09 | Bob Parks

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Appeals Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor, considered a leading contender to replace David Souter on the Supreme Court, speaks on a panel at Duke Univ. Law School in 2005. She is responding to a question on the pros and cons of different types of judicial clerkships

If Judge Sotomayor is so flippant now about being an activist judge, imagine what she'll do once she's in the Supreme Court?

h/t Verum Serum

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..about that phone call yesterday Orrin....

then-Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch and six other Republicans who are still in the Senate today, voted for Sotomayor’s confirmation to the Second Circuit

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I wouldn’t worry about Sotomayor. I’m quite certain she hasn’t paid taxes on something.

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But, unfortunately, law by no means confines itself to its proper functions. And when it has exceeded its proper functions, it has not done so merely in some inconsequential and debatable matters. The law has gone further than this; it has acted in direct opposition to its own purpose. The law has been used to destroy its own objective: It has been applied to annihilating the justice that it was supposed to maintain; to limiting and destroying rights which its real purpose was to respect. The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others. It has converted plunder into a right, in order to protect plunder. - Frédéric Bastiat

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