You are so wrong it ain’t funny. It’s a mistake to look at this in terms of ideology.
The reason the right should be happy with this pick is her attitude. As I said before, Kagan would’ve been the smarter choice for Obama. Based on your earlier response to me in a different thread, what you fail to realize is how a justice’s personality influences Justice Kennedy. Kagan is the left’s Roberts in terms of personality. She is friendly to the other side in an attempr to win them over. Kagan could probably pull Kennedy to the left.Sotomayor, on the other hand, has an abrasive personzlity that may, over the course of a few terms, push Kennedy to the right.
That is why conservatives should be pleased with this pick.
That’s a reach NinoFan. The woman may be abrasive but she is professional enough to leave it toward those in front of the bench. There’s no indication she’s been abrasive to her peers.
Not saying Kagan is not a worse choice. But your hopes are too high in comparison is all.
She will be a very left wing urban liberal who will vote to make policy from the bench. She will have no qualms in doing so. And her video up on Drugde is a mockery of same.
She is very clear that making policy is her perogative from the bench.
Don’t think so? Ask a white firefighter in New Haven, CT.
Ridiculous. Sotomayor has said that she believes the court is where policy is made. That is at the core of liberal judicial activism.
Uh, I think you have me confused with someone else. I agree completely with you. Kagan was far more dangerous. FAR FAR more dangerous, for exactly the reasons you mention.
You may indeed be correct that Sotomayor’s lack of judicial temperament may alienate her from other justices and therefore prevent her from being a 5-4 consensus builder.
There is another scenario, however, much worse: she becomes so seedy and unpleasant to work with, dumbs down the court and its traditions, that she essentially guarantees an early retirement for Thomas, Alito, Scalia, and Roberts - who don’t want to deal with her brazenness and related crap. In other words, she is the catalyst to get the good justices to quit and say the Hell with it.... life is too short for this crap.