rssRight’s Reaction to Sotomayor is Swift, Damning and Hypocritical
Tuesday, May 26, 2009 at 10:29 am
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Likely lending a taste of the partisan, ideological ranting that’s sure to accompany the debate over President Obama’s pick of federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor to be the next Supreme Court justice, here’s a statement just issued by Wendy E. Long, former clerk to Clarence Thomas and counsel to the conservative Judicial Confirmation Network.
Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written. She thinks that judges should dictate policy, and that one’s sex, race, and ethnicity ought to affect the decisions one renders from the bench.
The Judicial Confirmation Network, calls itself “an organization of citizens joined together to support the confirmation of highly qualified individuals to the Supreme Court” — individuals, they say, who won’t “use the power of the court to impose his or her personal or political agenda on the people.”
Here, though, is the May 16 New York Times description of how the group intends to impose its own personal and political agenda on the process.
Gary Marx, executive director of the conservative Judicial Confirmation Network, said donors, whom he declined to identify, had committed to contributing millions of dollars for television, radio and Internet advertisements that might reunite conservatives in a confirmation battle.
(H/t Gawker.)
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6 Comments
Comment posted May 26, 2009 @ 8:00 am
President Obama will nominate Judge Sonia Sotomayor
If confirmed by the Democratic-controlled Senate, Judge Sotomayor, 54, would replace Justice David H. Souter to become the second woman on the court and only the third female justice in the history of the Supreme Court. She also would be the first Hispanic justice to serve on the Supreme Court.
See details of her biography:Judge Sonia Sotomayor-news-online
Comment posted May 26, 2009 @ 8:26 am
Judge Sonia Sotomayor IS a very qualify person for the post.
Well done.
Comment posted June 16, 2009 @ 6:13 am
I wonder about the use of words to push the point vs. making the point. My objections to ms. sotomayor's nomination are multi-fold and not hypocritical. I have concerns when anyone makes a decision that, on the face of it, appears to discriminatory (i.e., the Fireman case) and her obviously racist and bias comments about her race being a facotr, etc. Explain those issues to me, the public so I can get on board. Don't slam me because I'm asking the questions!
Comment posted June 16, 2009 @ 1:13 pm
I wonder about the use of words to push the point vs. making the point. My objections to ms. sotomayor's nomination are multi-fold and not hypocritical. I have concerns when anyone makes a decision that, on the face of it, appears to discriminatory (i.e., the Fireman case) and her obviously racist and bias comments about her race being a facotr, etc. Explain those issues to me, the public so I can get on board. Don't slam me because I'm asking the questions!
Comment posted October 21, 2009 @ 9:03 am
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