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Obama Chooses Sotomayor for Court
New York Times ^ | May 26, 2009 | Jeff Zeleny

Posted on 05/26/2009 5:44:29 AM PDT by reaganaut1

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To: reaganaut1

Bush 41 gave us Souter too so I guess his legacy lives on...


41 posted on 05/26/2009 6:11:05 AM PDT by nhwingut ( Don't Blame Me. I Voted For Palin.)
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To: Non-Sequitur

“Soooooo, which Republicans will affirmatively confirm this woman?

About half would be my prediction.”

If that’s true....it may well be time to start another party (and I never thought I’d say that!).


42 posted on 05/26/2009 6:14:24 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified DeCartes))
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Obama neutralized Hillary when he made her Secretary of State.
There is no way she will run against him. This is a move to further cement the Hispanic vote and appease the far left of the party.


43 posted on 05/26/2009 6:16:50 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: nhwingut

Look for a montage of those exact words to be played by Rush.

No, the media doesn’t meet to determine their talking points, but they DO all think alike.


44 posted on 05/26/2009 6:18:05 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, Bowman later)
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To: MikeWUSAF
Sotomayor was nominated on November 27, 1991, by President George H. W. Bush

Needs to be repeated. RINO's appoint Sotomayors and Souters...

There's a reason why "read my lips" only served one term. Not so oddly, it's the same reason McCain lost and Powell is wrong. We don't need more RINO's. We don't need to move "Left".

45 posted on 05/26/2009 6:18:12 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (III)
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To: reaganaut1

First Hispanic? What about Benjamin Cardozo, who was of Portugese extraction? I guess he doesn’t count because his ancestors came here before the Revolution, but he was certainly of Hispanic descent.


46 posted on 05/26/2009 6:22:36 AM PDT by mak5
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To: Publius Maximus

Sotomayor’s reputation is of being overbearing, long winded, and a bit of a lightweight in terms of legal analysis. In other words, she’s just like Obama.


47 posted on 05/26/2009 6:23:37 AM PDT by mak5
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To: xzins

Thank you for sharing your insights, dear brother in Christ!


48 posted on 05/26/2009 6:27:28 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Non-Sequitur

That’s worth at least two guffaws.


49 posted on 05/26/2009 6:39:04 AM PDT by monocle
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
She's orginally a Bush-41 appointee.

Sorry, that doesn't make it better for me, knowing what I know now about the Bush dynasty.....and his son's proclivity for ignoring the rule of law when it concerns amnesty.

This was not a stamp of approval or relief when I heard.....rather a red flag.

50 posted on 05/26/2009 6:44:06 AM PDT by Guenevere
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To: xzins

Thank-you....I appreciate your wisdom.


51 posted on 05/26/2009 6:46:29 AM PDT by Guenevere
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
She’s originally a Bush-41 appointee.

So was Souter.

52 posted on 05/26/2009 6:47:08 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: reaganaut1
The Balkanization of the U.S.A. will accelerate.
53 posted on 05/26/2009 6:50:26 AM PDT by PogySailor (We're so screwed.....welcome to the American Oligarchy)
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To: Guenevere; P-Marlowe

The good news is that this doesn’t change the balance of the court.

It is, however, an appointment that should have belonged to the conservative coalition that saw to the 2 elections of Reagan, one of Bush Sr, and 2 of Bush Jr.

That coalition worked for decades to reach a majority court, and right when it was in grasp, the rinos blew the election. Souter, a republican nomination, should have retired so that Bush could have appointed his replacement. Because he is a liberal, he did not. That betrayal is small, though, compared to the greater betrayal....the intentional loss of the last election.

Shame on the fair weather conservative and independent Christians who bought the media line and put a baby killer in office who has now appointed a baby killer to the court.

There will be hell to pay.


54 posted on 05/26/2009 7:28:36 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain, Pro Deo et Patria)
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To: reaganaut1

For anyone claiming she is a leftie, I don’t have any doubt of her political leftiness, but do any of you have any evidence of truly liberal rulings or if those rulings outnumber more conservative rulings? Everywhere I read, they are stating she is a centrist and I just can seem to be convinced she is truly a liberal judge without the evidence. I don’t think Obama was looking for a liberal specifically, he is a politician first and wants to solidify the Hispanic vote for 2012.

As far as her statement about policy being made at the Appeals court level, she is dead right. Are people familiar with how many damned two, three, four “prong tests” that exist in legal rulings over the last 200 years? Do they know how these come about? Weenie politicians write incredibly nebulous laws so as not to offfend this interest group or the other and the lack of black and white lines in the laws, judges are forced to interpret them to go one way or the other and almost invariably insert a caveat or two in the rulings begging Congress to clarify.

An example would be 528(c) in the Bankruptcy code regarding student loans with the infamous “undue hardship” inserted by Congress. Well hells bells one man’s undue harship is another man’s daily life, so how do you interpret that? The courts had to come up with a three prong test to supplement that idiotic piece of legislation and almost every judge since then has begged Congress to clarify.

So yes, policy is indeed made by Appeals and Supreme courts because Congress lacks the political cojones to make the same policy.

Just a little something to chew on for those that think judicial policy is a perogative of some judges rather than something forced on them by the other branches of government.


55 posted on 05/26/2009 7:33:36 AM PDT by jackmercer
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To: xzins
I wonder if Zero named this pig Sontomayor as a handy nominee for the GOP and Democrat "conservatives" to kill so that his replacement nominee - - the activist liberal scumbag he really wants - - will get through? Is this pig worse than Ginsburg and Souter?
56 posted on 05/26/2009 7:53:35 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard

Every bit as bad as Ginsberg and Souter.

See here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2258329/posts


57 posted on 05/26/2009 8:01:01 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain, Pro Deo et Patria)
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To: reaganaut1

The president reached his decision over the long Memorial Day weekend,pulls name from hat 7 1/2 to be appointmented to the court.


58 posted on 05/26/2009 8:11:09 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: DemonDeac
Affirmative Action pick. Nothing more and nothing less.

Just like Alberto Gonzalez.

59 posted on 05/26/2009 8:13:30 AM PDT by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: xzins

She was first appointed to the federal bench by Bush I. The fix has been in for a long time. The dumb show gets dumber and more deadly by the minute.


60 posted on 05/26/2009 8:33:50 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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