Posted on 05/04/2009 2:36:29 PM PDT by lewisglad
Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals is one of the likely candidates to replace Justice Souter. Chuck Schumer has been pushing her name and she meets Obama's stated interest in increasing diversity on the bench (she's Hispanic).
"All of the legal defense funds out there-- they're looking for people with court of appeals experience. Because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law. [Laughs] I know. I know. [Laughter] I'm not promoting it, I'm not advocating it, I'm...y'know." Check out that hand wave at the end. She walks it back, sure, but there's no question what she believes. She thinks she gets to make policy and she knows that she's not supposed to say that out loud. This is what Obama is looking for on the bench.
Incidentally: This is probably a good time for a discussion about timing. Morgen, who found this, had a tough choice. He's found something juicy, but it may be even better to sit on it for a while (like, say, until Obama nominates Sotomayor for something). On the other hand, if he sits on it, someone else may find it and break it first.
There's a limit on the effectiveness of stuff like this. If the Reverend Wright stuff had come to light in October, the last election may have turned out differently. But by the time the election rolled around everybody had adapted to it, justified it in their own minds, and moved on. It was "old news" and not worth getting upset about.
Of course, once people started scrutinizing Wright it all came out. It was over and done. That's what news media (and blogs) are about. Getting the story and sharing it. The same can be true for Obama's likely choices to replace Souter.
Everybody's looking at Sotomayor, Kagan, and Wood now, but whoever Obama wants probably won't be nominated until mid-June at the earliest. The real deadline isn't until October, when the Court's next term begins, although the President is going to want to give his choice an opportunity to get settled and hire clerks. All this attention now might give the moderate Democrats, who might have a problem with Judge "I Make Policy" Sotomayor or the other likely nominees, time to adapt.
Shes the exact opposite of the ideal Scotus candidate.
She was probably O’s favorite until this came out (because of her ‘diverse’ background)
Elana Kagan is another matter. Smart as they come, and radical as Marx himself. Plus a lesbian. Kagan is the nightmare pick. It would be worth sacrificing a Senator's career in order to block her nomination.
What a silly woman.
My back yard is where policy is made. The courts can only affirm it.
What a scary attitude.
Heaven save us when a woman who is willing to spew such blatantly unconstitutional nonsense winds up sitting on the SCOTUS bench.
How appropriate then that it would be Souter's seat that she is hoping for, since he was the exact opposite of what an ideal Justice we thought he would be.
She doesn’t have the first clue.
There used to be. It used to be called law school and judicial experience. However, we see from TOTUS and his potential nominees what that has come to mean these days.
And the other side is where fudge is made.
It doesn’t matter whether or not candidates have read the Constitution. What matters is what Constitutional “scholars” like the community agitator taught in their classes.
She’s nuts.
Where policy is made? And to think for all these years I thought it was where the Constitution was interpreted.
You still haven't convinced me that she's any different...or any worse...than the confirmed bachelor she might replace.
I’m surprised you haven’t had any more responses to this thread than you have.
Here is the link to the video of Judge Sotomayor comment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfC99LrrM2Q
Sotomayor has Type 1 diabetes which is a very serious threat to long life,Mary Tyler Moore nothwithstanding.
We could probably survive her,but Kagan is a devil-an internationalist,America-hating Marxist lesbian.
I don’t think we can afford this evil twisted mind on the Supreme Court.
If Obama gets what he wants(or what George Soros has told him he wants)this country is finished.
I remember growing up in the Fifties when it was so good to be proud of the USA and it was good to hate the Communist menace.
Now we elect and appoint Marxists and we have no pride of country being taught in schools.
Who is to blame?The media.
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