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.
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.
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 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.
I thought that fact was solidly established in November 2008.
she also stumbled a lot on the are we at war question, abortion, gun rights were thought by her to be hunting and then she says one of her God children is in the NRA
That is like saying I am not racist because I know a black guy at work.
Now this stumble by her.
If we got a list of the blue dog Dems and EVERYONE of us would send calls and e-mails to them then that would apply enough pressure for a vote of no.
However if we left it to just calling out local Reps then nothing I am afraid will be done.
1000 voters calling these Dems every day would put enough pressure on them regardless of Pelosi using her blackmail tactics
overturn precedent , then claim ‘stare decisis” and that you have to stick with the
precedent... reasoning of a libtard judicial metal midget.
The point was made that essentially guns are the great equalizer, and if you have the right to self defense, then you should have the right to bear arms
She tried to squirm out of that, but she finally had to concede that it makes sense to allow weaker individuals to carry firearms
And she conceded that since they're criminals, they will have weapons we don't want them to have, i.e. they won't be controlled by laws
Bottom line, if you have the right to defend yourself, then you should have that right irregardless of physical strength and that you will never be able to disarm the criminals, and therefore you should be allowed to have parity with them.
Right to bear arms is not the same as right to self defense if attacked. Under right to self defense, if you are attacked you can defend yourself with knives, bricks or bare hands, not just with guns. Under right to bear arms, you have a right to have firearms, regardless of whether you are under attack or under a reasonable fear of being attacked.
There is a constitutional right to bear arms as found in the 2nd Amendment.
I hate to say it but as asked, Sonia the Quota Queen is correct; there is no direct constitutional right to self-defense. That right existed at common law, and has been codified under various state statutes. There is no direct federal constitutional provision for the defense of one’s person.
Anyone who’s taken a first year criminal law course in law school knows this: general criminal law allows for the use of necessary and proportionate force in self-defense anytime the victim reasonably believes that unlawful force is about to be used against him. “Proportionate force” can include deadly force if the victim reasonably believes deadly force is about to be used against him.
It’s a shame republicans are too spineless to ask if she believes—as Hussein does—in infanticide. That is, does she consider it OK for a doctor to throw the survivor of an abortion attempt in a dumpster??!! Hussein voted YES twice in Illinois. Why not ask her? Can you imagine her saying she can’t comment because it might come before the court??