Sotomayor: Anti-Americanism On The Court?

What I'm unsure of is, did Obama nominate her out of simple incompetence? Or does he wish to preserve his anti-American sentiments in government for as long as he can, while trying to lock up hispanics for 2010?

There are also a few jarring elements that contrast to the pedagogical approach. First, I'm curious as to when Sotomayor ceased being a Puerto Rican nationalist who favors independence -- as she says she does in the preface. (The position, as she points out in the thesis, had received 0.6 percent in a 1967 referendum, the most recent such vote before she wrote the thesis.) I don't know that I've seen it reported anywhere that she favored Puerto Rican independence, which has always been very much a fringe position....

Second, her unwillingness to call the Congress the U.S. Congress is bizarre -- in the thesis, it's always referred to as either the 'North American Congress' or the 'mainland Congress.' I guess by the language of her thesis, it should be said that she's seeking an appointment to the North American Supreme Court, subject to advice and consent of the North American Senate. This kind of rhetoric was very trendy, and not uncommon, among the Latin Americanist fringe of the academy.

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[anon]

It shows that she's a radical, refusing to call the U.S. Congress the U.S. Congress is RIDICULOUS.

Radicals don't belong on the supreme court. Not of any stripe.

But she will get confirmed, whether she's more radical left than Ginsberg is probably doubtful. Me, I think this trend of tit for tat, replacing a woman with a woman, a black with a black is quite negative, rather than enhance diversity and race blindness it turns everything into a quota with a score card about how many of "our" people did we get in....very troubling over the long term.

The real issue for the future of the country is whether Stevens can or will or wants to hold out another 4 or 8 years to be replaced by a possibly more conservative justice or whether he's going to want Obama to appoint his replacement.

[tim maguire]

Llama, Bush 41 almost certainly nominated her because a New York Senator asked him to--that's generally how it works. Circuit Judges don't get SC level scrutiny and it doesn't advance the argument much to claim otherwise. Also, I have to categorize your claim that Riehl criticizes this nomination on the grounds that she is Puerto Rican as dishonest. It's just too obvious that that's not what he's doing.

What's the advantage of referring to the "mainland congress"? Is her position that congress does not wield authority over any unattahced land? Cause I think they do. But SFAIK, Puerto Rican independence is favored by close to a third of the island so it's not fringe and so long as she supports legal means of acheiving it, that shouldn't count against her. IMO.

The thing that bothers me (other than the racism that too many people seem willing to paper over) is the La Raza membership. You can't support breaking off a third of the country and giving it to someone else by legal means--there are no legal means. Any Supreme Court justice should recognize the legitimacy of U.S. Sovereignty. That seems like a minimum qualification because without it, she cannot take the oath of office, she cannot fulfill her duties.

[lala]

Sotomayor is brown?

[Dan Riehl]

Islamo is a particular brand of idiot troll, as if what I said had anything to do with her color, or heritage. Only something like .6 percent of Puerto Ricans share her position.

If he keeps it up, he and his comments are going to be gone.

[lala]

She graduated as valedictorian from a Catholic high school but didn't know how to write in English. I find that hard to believe.

[SacTownMan]

Damn that poodle is pissing on the rug again!

El Norte Gringo Congress be damned!

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/25447

Let the leaders of the movement speak to it's goals!

"Antonio Villiaragosa "For those of the race, everything, for those outside the race, nothing." President UCLA Chapter of MEChA student arm of La Raza.

Jose Angel Gutierrez, former president of La Raza: "Our devil has pale skin and blue eyes…"… "We have an aging white America. They are dying. We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him."… "We remain a hunted people. Now you think you have a destiny to fulfill in the land that historically has been ours for forty thousand years. And we're a new Mestizo nation."

Jose Luis Gutierrez one world order "The nation-state concept is changing," said Gutierrez, 46, who came to Chicago in 1986 and led one of the Midwest's largest federations of hometown associations. "You don't have to say, `I am Mexican,' or, `I am American.' You can be a good Mexican citizen and a good American citizen and not have that be a conflict of interest. Sovereignty is flexible."

The Mecha Declaration of Independence defines other objectives of La Raza:

Mecha Student Arm of La Raza Declaration of Independence for AZTLAN: "In the spirit of a new people that is conscious not only of its proud historical heritage, but also of the brutal 'gringo' invasion of our territories, we, the Chicano inhabitants and civilizers of the northern land of Aztlan from whence came our forefathers, reclaiming the land of their birth and consecrating the determination of our people of the sun, declare that the call of our blood is our power, our responsibility, and our inevitable destiny…With our heart in our hands and our hands in the soil, we declare the independence of our mestizo nation. We are a bronze people with a bronze culture. Before the world, before all of North America, before all our brothers in the bronze continent, we are a nation, we are a union of free pueblos, we are Aztlan."" El Plan de Aztlan, published by MEChA, a radical Latino group that advocates for the la Reconquista of California, New Mexico, Nevada and parts of Colorado and Texas, i.e. "Aztlan.""

Viva La Raza!! Viva Aztlan!!

These guys make the KKK and Reverend Wright look like moderates and this nominee gets a pass on her racist banter!!

Nothing to see here gringos, move along!!

[SacTownMan]

Shorter Lame-O, Oops I pissed off the host!!

"If he keeps it up, he and his comments are going to be gone."

One could only hope!

Wow Dan if you could tolerate Harpo for so long why not give this idiot a pass too!

I'm kind of enjoying the little poodle constantly pissing on itself for us all to see!

These trolls are brainless little Soros hacks but despite being heartless and mean spirited they are fun to poke sticks at you would have to admit!

Plus what would this loser have to do without the fix she gets by being the resident dumbass!

[Dan Riehl]

I don't have to kick you, Islamo. Just push a button and delete your last twenty or so comments - which I've now done, since you requested that I do.

I'm just here to halp you!!!

[lala]

Makes me think of this -

"smarty, smarty, thought you had a party"

[WAHOO WILLIE]

Man, Imust be the only one here that actually likes Islamo/Pookie Da LLama, whatever. She has at least two personalities, LIKE SYBIL!!. One a google expert capable of finding whatever link "proves" her point then making a somewhat reasoned argument. The other is obviously still in high school or a frosh coed who parrots with childish abandon anything professor ponytail and Kanye West say. What fun is a discussion among people who all agree? Kinda like church huh? Well this is Dan's show and he gets props for being very "loberal" with posters

[Philip McDaniel]

Judge Sotomayor’s comment in her speech at Princeton University's Third World Center in 1996 that:

“…For example, in Spanish we do not have adjectives. A noun is described with a preposition…”

is absolutely remarkable for its lack of understanding of grammar. One can only hope that her grasp of the elements of American jurisprudence is not as faulty. Other than that, I wonder if she has outgrown her leftist references of the US Congress with all their implications. She may turn out to be just another one trick pony.

[IslamoLlama]

"--
I don't have to kick you, Islamo. Just push a button and delete your last twenty or so comments - which I've now done, since you requested that I do.

I'm just here to halp you!!!
--"

You're cute as a button Dan. Keep it coming.
We'll just ignore the fact that you're too tech illiterate to get the job done right.

[lala]

Which one is the preposition? Puerto or Rico?

[North Dallas Thirty]

Turns out Oblahblah's latest lie that Sotomayer simply "misspoke" is unraveling on an epic scale.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/legal_beat/2009/06/sotomayor-repeatedly-reference.html