Sotomayor: Qualified Jurist, Or Dashboard Dog With Bouncing Head?

Jules ponders - Souter with a Salsa Beat? I'm dubious, especially given a tendency for Justices to drift Left, or even more Left, once on the court. Perhaps it isn't that bad. But given some her known thinking, I'm leary of what impact the significant power might have on her. Can a lib resist the draw to shape a country in their own image when given the opportunity? I. don't. think. so.

She's already a no for me. Unfortunately, Obama would likely only do even worse with a second shot, figuring Republicans used up too much capital stopping Sotomayor.

I'm not optimistic she can be stopped by the current crop of Republicans and their reduced clout. Michelle Malkin visited the issue yesterday.

That’s what the Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus called her, a little weirdly (So what’s that make Obama … JFK with rhythm?). But I’ve been thinking. All this squawking about her racist remarks, so dismissive of white males, and her odd opinion-free affirmative action ruling, concerns about her 2nd amendment stance, property rights, rampant greenism and all that. What if Obama is making a big mistake? What if she is his Souter with a Salsa Beat? You’ll recall Souter was, to quote John Sununu, George H.W. Bush’s “home run.”

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[mark l.]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd_syuD-N_k

sotomayor(?) speaking at the columbia school of journalism.

[IslamoLlama]

Haha. Oh that Stalk'n Malkin. Always with the wishful thinking, tinged with that extra special hint of xenophobia. I mean, I'd give the girl my full attention. It's not like she's ever been wrong before.

[seekeronos]

"Justice Sotomayor"

All but a fait accompli, and a political masterstroke by Obama.

All the GOP accomplishes by opposing her *with vituperance* will be to further alienate them from the widening and massive margin of independents.

Yeah, she's radical leftist.

And she's undoubtedly a racist her lefty noggin' filled to the brim with LBJ-styled political correctness and anti-Anglo/Saxon/Celtic molded ideas of social engineering.

Aaaand she's most definitely a activist judge who believes in the Constitution at best as a "living document".

Watch for her to be a gun-grabbing nanny-statist who will slide far to the left of Justices Breyer and Ginsberg.

Yet, so spent is the GOP's political capital and influence, that her confirmation hearings will be less a trial of her competence to be enpaneled as a SOCTUS justice, but rather a trial for the remainder of the GOP before the eyes of the electorate.

The game is nearly over, and the socialists are winning: oddly enough, the GOP's best bet would be to offer a reserved, calm, and logical case for Judge Sotomayor not to be empaneled, and to vote accordingly... and even if we (very likely) lose this round, not to lose it on account of falling into the Dem's trap of attacking a candidate based on what can be easily re-painted as a racially- or sexism- motivated attack.

[Nishner]

She's written hundreds of opinions. Don't liker her, find something there that disqualifies here instead of trying to smear her - she's not a racist, she's not a socialist. As for activist judge, the dream of conservatives is to pack the court with eonugh activist, conservative, judges they can overturn Roe V Wade.

Up or down vote or it's the Nuclear Option!

[JustOneMan]

This is part of King Barrys strategy...anytime a minoroty is questioned scream RACISTS!....that what helped him get elected!

[lala]

No free speech for thee

"President Barack Obama’s nominee to fill a Supreme Court vacancy has yet another tie to Connecticut. She sided against a student in the infamous “douche bag” case, and that has upset some free-speech advocates.

Sotomayor joined two other judges from the 2nd Circuit in ruling that the student’s off-campus blog remarks created a “foreseeable risk of substantial disruption” at the student’s high school and that the teenager was not entitled to a preliminary injunction reversing a disciplinary action against her, Education Week reports."

http://netrightnation.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=914258:sotomayor-ruled-against-a-blogger&catid=1:nrn-blog&Itemid=7

[LOL]

I'm just wondering. Do you have a single judicial decision of Sotomayor's that you can offer a critique of? I don't see any substance to your opposition of her.

[tim maguire]

If you've checked around, LOL, you'd see there is plenty of substance to the criticisms. Kind of ironic that your post asking for a decision to criticize comes right AFTER a post criticizing one of her decisions. I'm betting that's par for the course with you.

Personally, I think she should be confirmed. I'm a firm believer that the president gets the justices he wants absent some serious short-coming. Her La Raza membership comes close but overall, I just see a mediocre liberal judge. Which is just what the American people had a right to expect from Obama when they elected him.

The Democrats have politicized the judicial approval process, but that doesn't mean the Republicans have to follow in their shamefull footsteps.

[lala]

Jonathan Turley spoke out against her and he's getting pummeled by the left for it.

[mark l.]

good tip lala.

just caught the clip at newsbusters...

the pure irony? they have been arguing about the tokenism with clarence thomas, and now one of their own tells them that they now have a token hispanic.

[narciso]

Yeah there's the Didden case, which is worse than Kelo, the Knight case, about tax issues, that Justice Roberts nearly fileted the hapless
government rep over, there's the case of the nunchaks which had a peculiar argument, that's just three off the top of my head, and I've left
off Ricci

[lala]

They say that 60 percent of her decisions have been overturned. It's not just the delay in getting justice, it's the expensiveness of it all.

In one case she's on the side of the dyslexic woman and in the next she's against the dyslexic man.

[RAH]

I have to disagree. GOP is already the minority. If they don't try to fight then they waste any support from the GOP base. If our leaders do not fight they why support them is the calculation of many of the base.

The point is not is we win or lose but whether GOP elected leaders will even fight. This judge is hostile to 2A. The Mahoney case is to be heard by SCOTUS in June. That case alone gives me reason to shoot down this nomination.

Also Bush ahd picked Miers a poor pick and discontent with that pick got rid of her and we got Alito an excellant jurist. So second choices can be better.

Beside the Democats have earned a fight on judges they did it for 20 years to the GOP. Turnabout is fair play.

[templar knight]

Hahaha! The moron Lame-o is supporting the lame-o Soto. Birds of a feather flock together. I particularly like her statement about the Latina woman with her life experiences being able to make a better decision than a white man. Turn that statement around and old Lame-o would be having a hissy fit. What a fricking hypocrite Lame-o is, and the dumb ass judge he supports.

[lala]

Yuk, yuk

"Born in the South Bronx, she was raised in a housing project," Obama said. "And even as she has accomplished so much in her life, she has never forgotten where she began, never lost touch with the community that supported her."

Yet Sotomayor did not live her entire childhood in a housing project in the South Bronx — she spent most of her teenage years in a middle-class neighborhood, attending private school and winning scholarships to Princeton and then Yale.

And Sotomayor's life and lifestyle after law school largely resemble the background of many lawyers who rise to powerful positions in Washington.

She climbed her way up through New York's Democratic power structure boosted by its ultimate brokers over those years — Gov. Mario Cuomo, Mayor Ed Koch, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan and District Attorney Robert Morgenthau. That's the access of a partner in a corporate law firm, not a kid from the South Bronx.

She now earns more than $200,000 a year and owns a condominium in Greenwich Village, a neighborhood of million-dollar-plus homes. Her brother, Dr. Juan Sotomayor, is a physician in North Syracuse, N.Y., whose practice doesn't accept Medicaid or Medicare — programs for the poor and elderly — according to its Web site."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gybh1tAJNK3I6fP1gJUsFOhJe5AAD98G55BO0