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Obama confident Sotomayor will survive criticism
San Diego Union-Tribune ^ | 5/30/2009 | LIZ SIDOTI, (AP)

Posted on 05/30/2009 6:16:01 PM PDT by South40

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama expressed confidence Saturday that efforts to scuttle Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court will fail despite intensified scrutiny of her judicial career. He said senators should work quickly to elevate the federal appeals judge.

"I am certain that she is the right choice," the president said in his weekly radio and Internet address in which he scolded critics who he said were trying to distort her record and past statements. Those include her 2001 comment that a female Hispanic judge would often reach a better decision than a white male judge.

With the Senate returning this coming week from its holiday break, Obama said he hopes it begins the confirmation process without delay. He said he expects his nominee to be on the bench when the Supreme Court begins its new term in October.

In the interim, Obama said he expects "rigorous evaluation" of his nominee but added: "What I hope is that we can avoid the political posturing and ideological brinksmanship that has bogged down this process, and Congress, in the past."

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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: laraza; liberal; mecha; obama; radical; scotus; sonia; sotomayor
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

I wouldn’t be afraid to bet there are a lot of regrets about now.
The thing is, what are they going to do about it.

They’ll wait until it’s too late.


21 posted on 05/30/2009 7:29:52 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (The plan... 0 in power for life. At least that's what they told him.)
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To: South40
Those include her 2001 comment that a female Hispanic judge would often reach a better decision than a white male judge.

Your excuse for her racist rant is that she made a "poor choice of words"? That's your excuse you f**cking moron? Hey Soetoro! Where has she been for the last 8 years with the correction of her poor choice of words? Give me a break. Sit down and STFU Barry.

22 posted on 05/30/2009 7:34:28 PM PDT by RoadKingSE (How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash ?)
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To: Typical_Whitey
soon there will be calls for changes to the Constitution

Not necessary. All that needs to happen is for one of the conservative justices to bust an artery before 2012 and VOILA! Bill Ayers for SCOTUS. Then you can wipe your @$$ with the Constitution, while the republicants are trying to keep this jerk from running again.


23 posted on 05/30/2009 7:41:27 PM PDT by RoadKingSE (How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash ?)
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To: South40

Since we’re outnumbered in Congress our only hope is to followup on the race thing and then zap them with the only constituency they fear...the NRA re; her contention that states may usurp the Second Amendment.


24 posted on 05/30/2009 9:13:26 PM PDT by vigilence
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