Posted on 07/15/2009 11:04:13 AM PDT by Avoiding_Sulla
I just heard a soundbite of the following question "Do you believe that an individual has the right to self defense?" and Sonia Sotomayer's response to it:
"I don't believe the court has addressed that issue.... but I could be wronnnnnnng."
Evading the question of whether or not an individual has the right to self defense calls to question her intelligence and her decency BIG TIME.
Charges are dropped based on the presumption of self defense all the time. People have been exonerated forever based on a determination of self defense. But Sotomayer, rather than simply say "Yes," the answer that God fearing human beings have been saying forever, demurred.
Let me observe that I have a right to demand that she promise not to introduce to the United States the kind of horrors visited upon our British cousins. They have been denied this basic right now for over a decade. Thus, I do not believe she was being stupid as some will claim. She is being devious.
This nomination is OVER.
Unless, of course, a majority of senators hate the innocent human beings whose inalienable right to life they have vowed to protect!
That would be nice, but I doubt it.
Without the right of self defense, there is no right to life.
Has she been asked about Heller vs DC?
She already had ruled previously against the individual right to keep and bear arms, sufficient reason ALONE to keep off the courts.
This is comical. Imagine this question:
Judge Sotomayer, does a US citizen have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
Sotomayer: “I don’t believe the court has addressed that issue.... but I could be wronnnnnnng.”
I’ve been listening to the hearings a bit, and I have to say her intelligence, articulation and powers of logic do not impress me. I would expect more from someone about to become a Supreme Court justice.
She'll get back to you on self-defense.
she is on a mission for the Messiah Zer0
Again, thankfully, this miscreant can do no more damage than Souter.
We will be exchanging one left-wing radical troglodyte for another.
As long as Thomas, Scalia, Roberts, Alitto and Kennedy hang in there, America is safe and I hope they hang in there at least until the Obamanation abdicates.
Exactly the point. It is like the Al Gore denial that there was anything to be concerned about simply because the Supreme Court never addressed his crimes before.
Right, I am just supposed to stand there and let some SOB kill me. Not likely Judge!!!
Sotomayor needs to appear on one of those dance show competitions.
She is waltzing all over the place, and avoiding answers like crazy.
Didn’t trust her before Mon AM, and am trusting her less every hour.
I’ve been listening to the hearings a bit, and I have to say her intelligence, articulation and powers of logic do not impress me”
Same here.
Another thought: IS she dragging out all of her answers to take up more time and reduce the number of questions and follow-up questions from these Committees?
She reminds me of a dry drunk.
I have written the Republicans on the Senate Committee
http://judiciary.senate.gov/about/members.cfm
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
I think MAYBE that her answers to Arlen Specter are going to sink her. Are you listening? She’s evasive.
And I just want to b!tc#-slap her every time her modulated voice talks down to the Senators. Slows her speech and affects her voice. Gag me with a silver spoon.
Be sure to write the members of the committee. Get specific.
Someone needs to locate some of her classmates to find out if she was verbally abusive to them. Lawyers who have argued before her claim she’s a bully. She didn’t get that way overnight. She’s not only racist, but she’s sexist.
I am in her “Profession” and I am not aware of a Federal CONSTITUTIONAL right of self defense. It’s a common law doctrine, codified in most, if not all, states. It’s also probably codified in Federal statutes. Am I wrong? The right is statutory, not constitutional. So, she might be right.
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