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Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor: ‘Sometimes You Have To Do the Unexpected’
Der Spiegel ^ | April 02, 2014 – 12:43 PM | Samiha Shafy

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.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: judicialactivism; meritocracy; narcissist; nomorehope; nomotehopehowtrue; scotus; sotomayor; wiselatina
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To: Olog-hai
"I have a style that is Sonia, and it is more assertive than many women are, or even some men."

Assertive, but DON'T CALL HER BOSSY!

41 posted on 04/04/2014 2:45:28 PM PDT by Scoutmaster (Is it solipsistic in here, or is it just me?)
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To: Olog-hai

‘’Every decision we make is final,’’ declares Sonya Sotomayor of the Supreme Court, ‘’Once we decide, there is no more hope.’’ No more hope? Tell that to Dred Scott. Tell that to today’s African-Americans who are permitted to drink from the same water fountains as white people, thanks to the overturning of Plessy v Ferguson in the 1890s.

In fact, the Supreme Court constantly changes laws. Why else does Sonya Sotomayor think Barack Obama chose her for the Supreme Court except because he expected her to change laws according to their shared liberal ideology?

If Justice Sotomayor were paying attention to her job instead of spending her time giving misleading interviews to foreign publications, she would know that the Supreme Court is currently considering changing a law which she and the Supreme Court have already ruled constitutional — the Affordable Care Act. An affirmative ruling in the Hobby Lobby case would change the ACA by removing requirements deemed contrary to employers’ freedom of religion.

Nothing is forever, except maybe the ignorance of liberal justices, who have no reason to spend much time studying the law because they care more about advancing liberal causes than upholding judicial standards.


42 posted on 04/04/2014 2:54:14 PM PDT by Bluestocking
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To: Olog-hai
Proverbs 16:18 much, Sotomayor?
43 posted on 04/04/2014 3:00:08 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Olog-hai

She couldn’t even make her marriage work after only seven years. How can we possibly expect her to protect the constitution for life!


44 posted on 04/04/2014 3:04:35 PM PDT by Randy Larsen (Aim small, Miss small.)
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To: Randy Larsen
She couldn’t even make her marriage work after only seven years. How can we possibly expect her to protect the constitution for life!

I'm not defending Sotomayor or this interview, but that's a cheap shot. Clarence Thomas's first marriage only lasted 10 years.

45 posted on 04/04/2014 3:31:22 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Olog-hai

I am always impressed by how unimpressed I am when these people speak (Obama, Michelle, Sotomayor, Clintons, etc). They attended the top schools and their intellect is astoundingly vapid.


46 posted on 04/04/2014 3:42:35 PM PDT by mom.mom
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To: Lurking Libertarian

Well, “Justice” Soderme.. got her job like any other politician...for her being a reliable partisan political hack, not for be qualified to be a judge of any court, let alone the Supreme Court.

How is she any different than say, Harry Reid would be, in the same job. Any political operator can wear the clothes and sit in the chair...and these days, too many do. For sure all of Obaba’s appointees do.


47 posted on 04/04/2014 3:47:06 PM PDT by OldArmy52 (The question is not whether Obama ever lies, but whether he ever tells the truth.)
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To: Former Proud Canadian
"...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."

I guess I missed the part of the constitution that talked about the right to be successful.

48 posted on 04/04/2014 4:05:26 PM PDT by Senator_Blutarski
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To: Senator_Blutarski

Right

It can be about EEOA or other fascist dicta


49 posted on 04/04/2014 4:08:23 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: Olog-hai

True, why don’t you retire?


50 posted on 04/04/2014 4:21:22 PM PDT by mulligan (I)
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To: mulligan
There IS hope. Maybe she will do something "unexpected"... RESIGN NOW!
51 posted on 04/04/2014 4:43:17 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Olog-hai

Putting someone on the Supreme Court that isn’t even close to being qualified to be there was “unexpected” to me. Making “a compelling life story” the only qualification for being a Supreme Court justice was a goofy idea. Just another indicator of how far America has gone downhill.


52 posted on 04/04/2014 4:53:32 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (We are human beings. The debate, ANY DEBATE, is NEVER OVER!)
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To: Olog-hai
And we all know what's expected of the "wise Latina".
53 posted on 04/04/2014 4:56:45 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

>> “Every time we decide, even when I’m in the majority and I think we’re right, you know that there’s a loser.”
>
> A junior high-school debating team captain is now sitting on the USSC.

I’d expect something a bit more... substantive from even a middle-school kid.


54 posted on 04/04/2014 8:18:14 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Lurking Libertarian; Perdogg; JDW11235; Clairity; Spacetrucker; Art in Idaho; GregNH; Salvation; ...

FReepmail me to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the SCOTUS ping list.

55 posted on 04/05/2014 5:13:23 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: Olog-hai

What an effin moron


56 posted on 04/05/2014 5:16:17 AM PDT by Rome2000
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To: Olog-hai

Har!


57 posted on 04/05/2014 5:17:14 AM PDT by Rome2000
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To: Secret Agent Man

She’s a freakin megalomaniac


58 posted on 04/05/2014 5:19:31 AM PDT by Rome2000
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To: Former Proud Canadian

What she means is that some uber enlightened human is supposed to impose cosmic justice when people are unmeritoriously successful.


59 posted on 04/05/2014 5:21:50 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: BitWielder1
It's not your job to make new laws.

The same reasoning that Journalist give when claiming they go to J schools - they want to be part of "MAKING" the news.
60 posted on 04/05/2014 6:51:31 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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