Every news channel is now locked on this story.
Watch the smoke and mirrors...something else bad is afoot!
Here’s what you’ll hear the next several days to provide cover for her leftwing record:
A Bush 41 appointment.
A Bush 41 appointment.
A Bush 41 appointment.
A Bush 41 appointment.
A Bush 41 appointment.
Bush 41 gave us Souter too so I guess his legacy lives on...
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.
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.
The president reached his decision over the long Memorial Day weekend,pulls name from hat 7 1/2 to be appointmented to the court.