[fightin kentuckian]

If I were a conservative, and I am, I wouldn’t get my hopes up. Here is a take that has not been mentioned yet.

From what I understand the Justices don’t dicsuss the case after they’ve heard arguments. They go back to their chambers and write their opinions and vote. That’s not a rule, that is simply how the process has evolved.

Hoewever, the Justices are free to query one another and conversate with one another and there is no prohibition against lobbying another Jusice.

Keeping that in mind, now remember this: obama has put two women on that court and he picked them becasue they are as radical as he is.

I believe that Sotomayer is just as much as a radical activist as obama with a “union thug gene” deep in her genome.

I believe that Sotomayer will try to sway other Justices behind closed doors. I believe that she will be in touch with the obama adminstration giving them a blow by blow on how the decision is coming along. In short she is a mole.

I believe that if the opinion doesn’t go her way that she will try to fiddle with the final text in order to achieve her end.

Look at her track record if you don’t believe that sotomayer is capable of that. She is a non apologetic racist who will have her way and do anything to get her way.

Sotomayer is key, someone must keep an eye on her and keep her in check. (Kind of reminds me of John Carpenters “The Thing” with Kirt Russel)

[Twotone]

I listened to a video of Clarence Thomas visiting some college recently. He said they do a lot of research prior to the oral argument & mostly have made up their minds about the issue. It’s possible that oral arguments can change their perspective, but only rarely.

We’ve had enough bad decisions out of SCOTUS that I haven’t got my hopes up.

[DustyMoment]

Sotomayer is key, someone must keep an eye on her and keep her in check.

Sotomayor is an issue, but she is NOT key; Kagan is key. As Solicitor General, Kagan prepared all the defense arguments for the government on ObamaCare. By rights, she should have recused herself (and, an ETHICAL justice would have) to avoid any appearance of bias but, as we are aware, she hasn't.

So, Kagan is the one we have to watch to see if she tries to sway the Court her way. Because she has all of the arguments lined up to defend ObamaCare against the very hearing it is receiving in the SCOTUS now, she is the most dangerous element on the COURT.

[LibLieSlayer]

If Roberts is incapable of controlling his court... he should resign. I have NO faith in any of those black robes... except Clarence Thomas. I not only respect him, I think that he has the most brilliant mind of any of the other Justices... as a matter of fact... I think that he should be Chief Justice.

LLS

[PapaBear3625]

Sotomayer is key, someone must keep an eye on her and keep her in check.

It's possible that Obama shot himself in the foot if Sotomayer is too radical. Radical leftists don't handle disagreeing opinions well.

She might just as easily wind up pissing off Kennedy enough that he votes against anything she promotes.

[Scotswife]

“I believe that if the opinion doesn’t go her way that she will try to fiddle with the final text in order to achieve her end.”

And Kagan has a history of “fiddling with texts” going back to the partial birth abortion ban case.

[boatbums]

Though I agree with you about Sotomayor, I really believe Kagan is the actual “mole” and I am upset that she did not recuse herself from the case seeing as she was Obama’s chief counsel and cannot be unbiased about this case. She was involved in creating the law in the first place, so who better than she, knows all the possible loopholes built in it to allow it to possibly squeak by the SC’s constitutional smell test? Loopholes, BTW, that I doubt ANY in Congress saw. This is indeed a very important case and will fundamentally change America - in the BAD way.