Posted on 05/27/2009 8:56:17 AM PDT by Lucky9teen
U.S. President Barack Obama talks with Judge Sonia Sotomayor after announcing her as his choice to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, May 26, 2009. Obama nominated Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, selecting a woman who would be the court's first Latino. Obama's choice of the liberal Sotomayor, a 54-year-old judge on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, was unlikely to change the ideological balance of the high court because Souter, 69, was part of the panel's liberal wing
“Didn’t your mother ever tell you, ‘Your face will freeze like that!’ ?”
“Dumb and Dumber.”
I think it’s kind of touching.
George W. Bush never nuzzled the necks or kissed the cheeks of John Roberts or Sam Alito.
sarc
...Curious George and Roseann Barr, first fotos together...
It is fitting that the next SCOTUS justice is named Sodomier.
Gag, those first five look like a bad romance clip.
Oh, good one!
Now remember, act smart.
It is a travesty that only a handful of people have the ultimate say in our country. This is why the radical left has chosen the judiciary as their route of attack upon American freedom and rights. There is no mystery here. The SCOTUS was never meant to be a political body, driven by political ideology and highly partisan.
The voters of 2006 and 2008 have handed the SCOTUS, the Congress, and the presidency to the radical left.
Icky-poo.
CHOMP!
LOL!!
I keep thinking, every day I watch the news and see what’s happening to our country, that whatever the worse case scenario could be, is actually what is happening.
Like my tagline says...when is enough, enough?
Islam is the Light
Judge Sonia Sotomayor: "Court is Where Policy is Made"
Link to YouTube video of her making the comment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfC99LrrM2Q
Biden: "Just don't sing the National Anthem again..."
Smiling happy faces. Not.
The policies of the pubbies when they controlled both Houses of Congress and the White House for 6 years had nothing to do with the '06 debacle ... and, having learned their lesson, the nomination of a complete RINO for the '08 run wasn't a contributing factor either ...
Sorry, Eagle, most of the wounds were self inflicted. It's kinda hard to motivate people when both sides are shouting "vote for me, I'm not the other guy." and your guys have pretty much been drifting aimlesly for 8 years.
"Court is Where Policy is Made"
She don’t look healthy. Good.
Senator Biden was the first questioner. Instead of the softball questions he’d promised to ask, he threw a beanball straight at my head, quoting from a speech I’d given four years earlier at the Pacific Legal Foundation and challenging me to defend what I’d said. ”I find attractive the arguments of scholars such as Stephen Macedo, who defend an activist Supreme Court that would strike down laws restricting property rights.” That caught me off guard, and I had no recollection of making so atypical a statement, which shook me up even more. “Now, it would seem to me what you were talking about,” Senator Biden went on to say, “is you find it attractive the fact that they are activists and they would like to strike down existing laws that impact on restricting the use of property rights, because you know, that is what they write about.”pp 235-236 of "My Grandfather's Son" by Clarence ThomasSince I didn’t remember making the statement in the first place, I didn’t know how to respond to it. All I could say in reply was that “it has been some time since I have read Professor Macedo … But I don’t believe that in my writings I have indicated that we should have an activist Supreme Court.” It was, I knew, a weak answer. Fortunately, though, the young lawyers who had helped prepare me for the hearing had loaded all of my speeches into a computer and at the first break in the proceedings they looked this one up. The senator, they found, had wrenched my words out of context. I looked at the text and saw that the passage he’d read out loud had been immediately followed by two other sentences: “But the libertarian argument overlooks the place of the Supreme Court in a scheme of separation of powers. One does not strengthen self-government and the rule of law by having the non-democratic branch of the government make policy.” The point I’d been making was the opposite of the one that Senator Biden claimed I had made.
“Democrats don’t improve with age.”
NOT!
Can she pass the physical?
Biden is reprehensible. Thank you for posting that—I think I’ll buy Justice Thomas’ book.
Or the theme from the old Love Boat show.
Or the theme from the old Love Boat show.
Okay - Willis gets my vote.
ROTFL!
I wonder if Thomas corrected Biden afterward?
Biden’s chickens are going to come home to roost.
This Justice nomination is also HIS administration’s nomination. Biden must be made to answer for the “difference”.
Also see new tagline.
Normal Americans kiss women on their LEFT cheek, 0 kisses her right. Probably a Muslim tradition.
The entire transcripts are here http://etext.virginia.edu/users/yitna/:
Now again, no one is proposing to take us all the way back to this so called Lochner era, but there are those who wish to employ the same reasoning that was used in that era. Today’s natural law proponents of what they term “New economic rights and new property rights” have called into question many of the most important laws enacted in this century — laws protecting the environment, or water and our air, laws regulating child care and senior citizens’ facilities, and even called into question the constitutionality of the Social Security system.
Now, Judge Thomas, you have made it abundantly clear that you do not subscribe to the most extreme of these views. But you have said that you find some of these views, to quote you, “attractive” and that you support the idea, quote, “of an activist Supreme Court that would strike down laws regulating economic rights,” end of quote. And again, this is a version of natural law, a vision of natural law, that we have moved far beyond and that most Americans have no desire to return to.
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SEN. BIDEN: ...Judge, because of your youth, and God bless you for it — I never thought I’d be sitting here talking about the youth of a nominee to the Supreme Court, but I am. Heck, you’re six, seven years younger than — I’m 48. How old are you, Judge, 42, 43?
JUDGE THOMAS:
Well, I’ve aged over the last 10 weeks, but — (laughter) — 43.
SEN. BIDEN:
Forty-three years old. Because of your youth, Judge, you will be the first Supreme Court justice the Senate will ever have confirmed, if it does, that will most likely write more of his opinions in the 21st century than he will write in the 20th century. To acknowledge that fact alone, Judge, is to recognize the unique significance of your nomination and the care with which this committee must look at it...
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As Clarence Thomas said in his book, the full context of the quote was brought to his attention at the break. The formallity of the proceeding didn’t give him an opportunity to respond immediately. I’ll have to look at the full transcripts to see what came up and what else the Democrats may have said that would be appropriate to this latest nomination hearing.
Sorry, Eagle, most of the wounds were self inflicted. It’s kinda hard to motivate people when both sides are shouting “vote for me, I’m not the other guy.” and your guys have pretty much been drifting aimlesly for 8 years.
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And yes, I agree. But still, the voters made a choice, and election CLEARLY have consequences. I also agree about the total lack of leadership in the Repubs. They did not fight at all, led no solid front against the libs and socialism, and checked their principles at the door when it came for standing up for REAL AMERICA instead of pursuing their own personal empowerment, ala Washington-style.
That is why I am, and have been, an Independent for some time. Until the Repubs again get the leadership and purpose they once had, they will not have my support. I am sure many others feel the same way.
Our founding fathers did a great job of defining what America was to be, and it has been beautiful and successful. The one thing they overlooked was the concept of the PROFESSIONAL POLITICIAN and left out important protections for the people against such an evil and destructive entity. We now suffer greatly from them and until the Repubs can flush their ranks of the majority of these power-mongering parasites, we have little hope...
If that lady walked into a haunted house, she’d come out with a paycheck!
Obama: I will be behind you 100% .... until I'm not.
Just think about it Joe. A few more like this one on the court and I can become dictator for life!
I wonder if he even bothered. After all, it must be difficult for somebody with Thomas's apparent intellect to deal with somebody whose IQ seems so room-temperature.
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