Posted on 04/04/2014 1:22:24 PM PDT by Olog-hai
“You know, it’s almost a life motto (‘Well-behaved women rarely make history’). If you read the book (My Beloved World), you know I’m very law abiding. But I make it very clear that, like all people, there are exceptions. I like driving fast. I’m a pure New Yorker and I jaywalk. None of us is perfect. Sometimes you have to do the unexpected.” […]
“In the United States, certain segments of society played with quotas for a number of years. What ended up happening is that the larger population got angry. And the Supreme Court ultimately said that quotas were not acceptable under the US Constitution. I think that some of it is driven by the American concept that success should always be based on merit. The problem with that concept, I think, as most people know, is that success is not always about merit.” […]
When the Supreme Court takes a case, it’s because there is a disagreement among the courts below. It means that the issues are not clear under existing law. All of that lack of clarity is usually around issues that are important to the society—like Obamacare, same-sex marriage—and every decision we make is final. Every time we decide, even when I’m in the majority and I think we’re right, you know that there’s a loser. There is another side who is going to feel something negative about what has happened. And that makes this job harder. Once we decide, there is no more hope. …
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
Once she started talking about being a “wise Latrina” I kinda lost interest. Race based wisdom doesn’t appeal.
We'll see about that.
The wise Latina just told us she’s all about picking a team. To my mind, our only hope is to prove Obama wasn’t eligible to nominate her or Butch. I realize there are those who will say, ‘but they were confirmed’ but they would never have come up for confirmation in the first place. Obama stole someone else’s opportunity to nominate.
And every time it isn't we should hold it up for contempt. Whether the success is based on political pull, family name or just dumb luck we should always state that the reason isn't for merit. Success without merit for some also taints those who are in the same group who did merit that success.
The left are more than willing to make those arguments when claiming that the majority of inheritances should be taken by the government because the heirs didn't earn that money based on merit. Odd, but they never seem to feel that way about their favorite family of drunkards and pill-poppers from Boston, believing that every new generation should exert even more power.
This is great news since the “unexpected” from her would be to actually uphold the constitution. Unfortunately, that’s probably not what she means.
With a capital “C”
Noticed like I’d notice being hit in the head with a baseball bat.
No, she’s high on her own celebrity; being interviewed by a foreign magazine. What’s important is her feelings about exercising her power sitting on the court and her feelings about thereby producing a “loser”. Me, me, me. Wise Latina indeed.
Abysmal, disgraceful.
Well, not anymore since Traitor Roberts went to the Dark Side. Now that 0bama et. al. don't follow The Law, no one else has any need to either.
In case you want to harf up your lunch.
THey are not the ultimate deciders. Future courts can overturn their verdicts. Congress can pass laws putting topics out of reach of SCOTUS. The People can say eff off to SCOTUS.
She could follow the law and apply the true meaning of the Constitution in her opinions. That would sure as hell be “unexpected.”
This is a dishonest, PC statement concerning the Constitution. Not that I agree with the Constitution's quotas, but the Founding States and post-Civil War constitutional lawmakers enumerated quotas as evidenced by the following clauses.
Article I, Section 2, Clause 3: Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons (emphases added). ...
14th Amendment, Section 2: ... shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
While I agree that her success was without merit, I don;t agree that “Once we decide, there is no more hope.” While I temporarily lost hope after their terrible and lawless ObamaCare decision, she is fundamentally wrong. Government derives it’s powers from the consent of the governed. Lawless decisions squander that consent and the loss of consent can restore hope - it’s ugly but it will eventually work.
You know, she defines herself as a person with the opposite character traits that define a “judicial temperament”. A judicial temperament requires someone to be deliberate, careful, logical, not impulsive, slap-dash and emotional. Judges should be predictable in the sense that they will conform their thinking and decisions to established case precedent and principals of jurisprudence. In this sense, judges who consider being unpredictable a part of their role are stripping the rule of law of its central components: a known system of laws and a known system of interpretation and application of laws. The worst thing a lawyer has to tell his litigation client is that there is no way of knowing what the judge might do, something that happens all too often.
Can she name one unexpected thing she’s don on the SCOTUS? I can’t. She’s a wise Latina.
(She does have large, uh, tracts of land!)
Has she ever NOT voted in the expected liberal way? I can't think of any.
I think she was talking about affirmative action, and in that case she might have meant “legacy acceptances” or other reasons that have to do with pull of some kind, which do not depend on merit..
Assertive, but DON'T CALL HER BOSSY!
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