Posted on 06/03/2009 9:28:08 PM PDT by SmithL
Is Supreme Court justice-designate Sonia Sotomayor going to have to eat her words and forget her past to win a seat on the high bench?
That would apparently appease some of her right-wing critics, who are grasping at straws in their campaign to try to derail the Hispanic woman's nomination -- or, at least, try to rough her up a bit.
Does she have to be a narrow constructionist and interpret the law their way? Let's hope not -- conservative jurists have had their way for too long on the high court.
If she wins Senate confirmation, Sotomayor will be the third woman appointed to the court and the sixth Catholic on the current court. She would be moving up from a judgeship on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York.
Fearful of the Republican onslaught, White House aides have asked Sotomayor to retract or re-phrase some past statements that her critics have seized upon.
Take, for example, her comment in a 2001 speech at the University of California at Berkeley.
"I would hope a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life,'' she said.
The way her critics have chewed on this one sentence shows how desperate they are.
Because she thrived amidst family poverty and hardship, it seems obvious that she would have a more sympathetic and perceptive decision-making role than a judge who came from privileged circumstances. All of us reflect our history.
But White House aides are running scared. They say they wished she had used "different words.''
...It's ironic that Judge Sotomayor -- who is of Puerto Rican descent and undoubtedly has experienced racial and gender discrimination-- must fight accusations that she is biased.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
“...Sotomayor going to have to eat her words and forget her past to win a seat on the high bench...”
The woman can eat all she wants, the only high bench I’ll give her involves a hole and the seat and an outdoor structure.
I’m shocked!! I’m the fifth poster and there’s yet no picture of Helen in this thread!!!
Thanks a lot!
... now I'm going to get nightmares!
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“... now I’m going to get nightmares!”
You shouldn’t complain - the picture Bayport posted is when she was “good looking”.
Google Sotomayor North American Congress
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We've Waived the Right to Press Sotomayor on Being a Puerto Rican Separatist Who Couldn't Bring Herself to Say "United States"? [Andy McCarthy]
Judge Sonia Sotomayor said in a 1996 speech at Princeton University’s Third World Center (now called the Carl A. Fields Center) that when she arrived at Princeton in 1972 as her high school’s valedictorian, “I found out that my Latina background had created difficulties in my writing that I needed to overcome. For example, in Spanish we do not have adjectives. A noun is described with a preposition....
Sonia Sotomayor: No empathy for campaign cash - Kenneth P. Vogel ...Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has staked a position that could have ... the line between campaign contributions and “bribes,” calling on Congress to overhaul
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