Posted on 05/28/2009 1:48:26 PM PDT by jessduntno
Friend --
President Obama hit a home run with his nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court -- and not just because she's the "woman who saved baseball" by ending the strike in 1995, nor simply because she would be the first Latina ever to serve on the high court.
It was a home run because in her three-decade career as a prosecutor, judge, private litigator and law professor, she has time and again earned bipartisan praise as one of America's finest legal minds. And it was the right choice because Judge Sotomayor -- herself born and raised in a South Bronx housing project -- has summed up the American dream in her own incredible story and never once forgotten how the law affects our daily lives.
Now her historic nomination goes to the Senate. I know that process well, and I can tell you that the debate of the coming weeks and months will be shaped by the public response in the next few hours and days. It's critical that the Senate and the public clearly see where the American people stand.
I've followed Judge Sotomayor's remarkable journey for years. I voted for her when President George H.W. Bush nominated her for the District Court in 1992, and I was proud to vote for her again when President Bill Clinton nominated her for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in 1998.
Like President Obama, Sotomayor passed up many more lucrative opportunities after law school to put her degree to work for the public good. She served as an Assistant District Attorney in New York, tackling some of the hardest cases facing the city, including robberies, assaults, murders, police brutality, and child pornography. Her growing reputation for fearlessness and legal brilliance prompted her first nomination to the federal bench, and she's only continued to soar.
If confirmed, she would start with more federal judicial experience than any Justice in a century, more overall judicial experience than any Justice in 70 years, and replace David Souter as the only Justice with firsthand experience as a trial judge. She has participated in over 3,000 panel decisions and authored roughly 400 opinions, expertly handling difficult issues of constitutional law, complicated procedural matters, and lawsuits involving complex business organizations.
In her years on the bench, Judge Sotomayor has earned acclaim from legal scholars and experts from both sides of the aisle for her intellectual toughness, her probing oral questioning, and her ability to issue decisions that hold both factual details and legal doctrines in equal measure. And she's never failed to apply a steady, common-sense analysis of how the law touches our daily lives.
Her story is incredible. Her qualifications are undeniable. And her judgment will serve us all well on the highest court in the land.
Please join me in becoming a part of this historic moment for the Court and our country. Add your name now to publicly show that you, too, "Stand with Sotomayor." In these crucial early hours, let us leave no doubt about the people's support for this extraordinary nominee.
Sorry, no links to fund raising ;^)
Yep, a racist in his own image ... This reverse racism is going to get old real quick.
I wonder how many of the closed car dealerships will be reopened under new diversity ownership.
Personally, I doubt I will ever bother going in a Chrysler or GM dealership again, unless they have free food and race cars on display ... So I have an escape clause.
How about the idea that 60%-80% of her judgements were over turned by the Supreme Court? Should that be ingnored? Was the Supreme Court wrong?
“How about the idea that 60%-80% of her judgements were over turned by the Supreme Court? Should that be ingnored? Was the Supreme Court wrong?”
That will undoubtedly be their take on it - the white guys are always wrong...which is OK to say...
“Her growing reputation for fearlessness and legal brilliance prompted her first nomination to the federal bench, and she’s only continued to soar.”
Urrrrp...
“Shouldn’t a letter from Obunghole to his Minions began “Comrades!”....?”
Hahahaha...you would think so...
Hahahahahaha....hope that doesn’t end up on the Bull Oh really show...he’s got us all wettin’ our pants here now, doncha know...
yet she is a racist who believes in sacrificing the able
Hey Obama Minions,
Keep believing those lies.
You know. I’m simply amazed that we have had all these demi-gods in our midst all this time but never knew until recently.
/sarc
By this I mean that even now it isn't enough to pick a woman ... she has to be a Latino woman ... and in a few years it will have to be a gay, Latino woman ...
Once we get to left-handed, gay, Latino, deaf, woman, we are going to run out of ever more striated victim demographics to appoint.
And once that happens, we may have to actually start looking at qualifications again.
yep...even his emails read as if they’re being transcribed from a teleprompter...
I didn’t realize Sotomayor saved baseball. That changes everything. Every time I watch a game on TV, I need to thank her. Without her, the strike would still be on. We wouldn’t have had that cathartic 2001 World Series, the tie All-Star game in 2002, the steroid scandal, the White Sox winning the series for the first time since the Black Sox scandal, the Washington Nationals’ fans booing Dick Cheney...all those memories of the last 14-plus years.
“I fear that it will be increasingly difficult to pick suitable candidates for appointed offices in the future. Once we get to left-handed, gay, Latino, deaf, woman, we are going to run out of ever more striated victim demographics to appoint.”
Put a don’t blow coffee through your nose warning on those posts, willya?
“I didn’t realize Sotomayor saved baseball.”
Yeah, the steroid pumped idiots swinging from their heels really impressed me and hopefully inspired a lot of High School ballplayers to pump up with a little of the old juice...
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