Obama cites Sonia Sotomayor's life experience in naming her to Supreme Court
By David Neiwert Tuesday May 26, 2009 7:55am
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama named federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor as the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice on Tuesday, praising her as "an inspiring woman" with both the intellect and compassion to interpret the Constitution wisely.
Obama said Sotomayor has more experience as a judge than any current member of the high court had when nominated, adding she has earned the "respect of colleagues on the bench," the admiration of lawyers who appear in her court and "the adoration of her clerks."
"She has never forgotten where she began," said Obama, who praised Sotomayor for her "wisdom accumulated from an inspiring life's journey."
Sotomayor said she was "deeply moved" by her nomination. "My heart today is bursting with gratitude."
She said she hopes to be seen as an "ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities."
Now, of course, we can expect to hear much wailing and gnashing of teeth from the right about Obama's selection process. We especially will be hearing what a "crazy Latina" Sotomayor is -- because that's what they've already been trotting out.
Amanda Terkel at Think Progress has the rundown of the right-wing talking points.
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To the repugs, no nominee is suitable unless he/she is void of all human emotion.
exactly ... but a history of ignoring constitutional guarantees of equal protection and the 9th Amendment and of insisting that corporations are "natural persons" under the Constitution ... what a shell game
Disdain is an emotion and the ideal GOP candidate must have in spades as regards individual human rights. Empathy is not out but must only apply to virtual humans like corporations.
Empathy Triumphs Over Excellence
By John Yoo
May 26, 2009, 1:03 pm
"President Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor shows that empathy has won out over excellence in the White House. Sotomayor has sterling credentials: Princeton, Yale Law School, former prosecutor, and federal trial and appellate judge. But credentials do not an excellent justice make. Justice Souter, whom Sotomayor would replace, had an equally fine c.v., but turned out to be a weak force on the high court."
Lou Dobbs will explode in 5...4...3...2...
He recognizes the differences between Mexico and Puerto
Rico. We kept all of Puerto Rico after the war. We left enough of Mexico that they should have been able to keep their people at home.
You think that Dobbs only discriminates against Mexicans?
asshole self?
But not the a-hole part. Lol.
Time to cue up all the video of Republicans saying that phrase, along with the filibuster being the "tyranny of the minority"...
has better tread lightly...there are millions of people out there withdope on them that addreses some of the same vitriol that they used against others ===plus the Congress needs to be put on notice that they better be true to the voter and not the corps and crazies. 1.800.828.0498!!!
Obama said she was a pick of the "right" too, Bush. Lets see those loonie tunes argue against that.
What are her opinions on the separation of church and state?
What are her opinions on the separation of church and state?
and the secession of Texas? This question of course, only petains to your second question.
What, you don't value the separation of church and state?
Do you not realize we are one judge away from the Pat Robertsonization of the US?
Do you not care if we slide into a defacto theocracy?
I'll post another joke you don't get.
As I understand it she is all about the seperation of church and state. That was one of the first things I heard said about her when her name was first mentioned a few weeks ago.
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/god-and-country/2...
would indicate otherwise...she accomodates religion into government but then takes a hardline stance when government wants to have a say in supposedly religious matters
quoting the linked article:
"the White House is already spotlighting Sotomayor's record on religious liberty cases, where her rulings are likely to please religious conservatives....
It's the kind of church-state separation opinion—protecting the church from the state, as opposed to the other way around—that will please religious conservatives... "
anyway I am willing to wait for more info regarding her and the separation of church and state
http://www.au.org/media/press-releases/archiv...
who was played by Natalie Wood or the kind played by Rita Moreno.
Everything I know about those people came from that unique film with its unbelievable tale of love and redemption.
as long as political correctness and cronyism wasn't involved in the process and effectiveness and qualifications were the main criteria.
since their surnames, like Khan, are too often mistaken for Muslim names.
Yawn. The fact that she's not federalist Society is a plus. But mediocrity that is PC is so banal.
Us black people despise you exclusive racist fucks as much as you hate us...we understand each other. Now go and fight this Sotomayor nomination and then ask the Latino community for their vote in 2010 and 12...I dare you bastards.
to chip another flake off of the republican base on their way to the pasty white inner core of the party.
Reslugs will only nominate biased, racist pigs, and intolerant haters, for the Supreme Court.
Did I also see somewhere this morning that she's single, too?
We all know where that's gonna go with the right-wing wackjobs.
...claiming that Sotomayor should be nullified from seeking the Supreme Court nomination because she is a type one diabetic.
tell me that was a joke.
watch for the reverse discrimination against the white male/man and the corporate world during confirmation questioning. this is a three headed dilemma for most republicans;female,hispanic and liberal
leaning.
Joe Scraborough has already started the propaganda campaign by spewing partisan rhetoric in this clip. I'm sure there will be many more.
http://progressnotcongress.org/blog/?p=1352
If the republicals strategy of obstruction, stalling, and filibuster, is a weak attempt to slither to 2010 or 2012 so that they can achieve better numbers, it is a moronican plan.
They would probably filibuster the selection of Jeff Sessions just to buy time. The fight against the appointment of Justice Sotomayor, will certainly alienate more women and Hispanics, which probably won’t help their cause in the 2010 and 2012 numbers game. Even the corporate gamers pulling the strings on these morons probably wonder if they are getting their money’s worth (they have found better people to invest in anyway).
Congratulations Justice Sotomayor.
Sotomayer was first appointed to the federal bench by the first Bush, so if the Repugs have a problem with her serving they should take it up with him. ;o}
I also read that her promotion confirmation in 1998 was opposed by only 29 Repugs.
She'll be confirmed. But I confess I'm a little disappointed. Sotomayor is smart and qualified, but I was hoping for Diane Wood. I wanted the intellectual big guns right away. I see Sotomayor as being pretty reliably for whatever Justice Breyer is for. Which is good, but I'm not always sure why Justice Breyer votes the way he does. Everyone knows what Scalia's philosophy is -- if the founders didn't say it out loud, it's not part of the constitution. We haven't had a liberal legal philosopher with that kind of clear vision on the court since Brennan and Marshall left. Judge Wood could have gone up against Scalia and Roberts and offered some real direction. I still hope she'll be next.
That said, I hope I'm wrong (and I often am when I disagree with this president). I hope Sotomayor is the next Marshall, or the next Brandeis.
let's hope for a bit of luck to appoint another one within these 4 years.
Would be great to get the S. Court back in balance.
of conservative criticism like so many democrats tend to.
conservative. The Republicans moved so far to the right that they pulled the Democrats with them. There is no party that represents the left.
so you say.. watch the pendulum swing to the left over the next 8 years.
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