Obama Chooses Sotomayor for Supreme Court
By Alan Stewart Carl | Related entries in Supreme Court
The pick is in. President Obama has chosen federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court. If confirmed, Sotomayor will be the third woman and the first Hispanic to serve on the nation’s highest court.
The AP has a roundup of her life and career.
We’ll have a lot more to say soon…
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May 26th, 2009 at 9:42 am
So a two-fer, anyways.
From AP:
I’ll be interested to hear what her reasoning was there. Her claim that we ought to honor the constitution is encouraging. Still, I wonder how consistently her rulings back it up. When it comes to certain issues where she perceives underlying moral injustice in her heart of hearts, does she try harder to find a way to rule the right thing?
I am not reflexively opposed to judges “ruling the right thing” on extremely rare occasions. But I do look for it to be rare roughly on the order of once in a lifetime.
May 26th, 2009 at 10:19 am
I think the GOP should oppose Sotomayor with every fibre of its being. I want the full-on crazy. I have my fingers crossed for a parody song from Limbaugh.
May 26th, 2009 at 11:23 am
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May 26th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
CNN lists 7 Sotamayor rulings that have been reviewed by SCOTUS. Of those, one is still pending.
Of the remaining 6, 5 were overturned. In the other case, the ruling was upheld but in CNN’s words, here reasoning was unanimously faulted.
May 26th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Michael Reynolds: You are a white male, not a hispanic woman, thus you can not render judgement equal to mine. I am a hispanic woman (a “Latina” if you will) and my experiences as a Latina renders me better judgment than you. This is simply a fact. I would like you to acknowledge this fact and whenever you disagree with me to humbly acknowledge my superiority.
Gracias, mi gringo gordito guapo.
May 26th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
LOL. It’s not often one gets tasty bi-lingual tongue-in-cheek sarcasm.
May 26th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
J. Harden:
Although I am not a Latina, I have eaten at many Mexican restaurants. In fact, I have made guacamole and tortillas from scratch. Negro Modelo is a beer I drink (when I can’t get any of about 8 other beers.) I have also consumed numerous Cuban sandwiches and on those occasions when I drink margaritas, I enjoy them with salt.
I feel these experiences — along with my well-known soft and feminine side — allow me to judge fairly.
May 26th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Aye Pappi Reynolds! — Dame mas…(ggrrrrrrrrrrrr)….el tigre!
As a hispanic woman, I am going to be PISSED if she doesn’t write her opinions in Spanish. I’m all good with the identity-politics if its actually backed up by a legitimate identity — which includes language (and I’m not talking about illiterate ebonic jibbidjive.) Everything else, I can buy at some Googleboyz “How to be Ethnically Cool” shop.