President Obama calls Sonia Sotomayor (below) to wish her good luck at her confirmation hearings that start Monday.
Posted on 07/13/2009 4:39:03 AM PDT by STARWISE
The leading Judiciary Committee Republican is charging that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is "out of the mainstream" of legal thinking and has a very activist judicial profile.
Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama made the assertion just hours before Sotomayor, who would be the third woman to join the court, was to face her initial confirmation hearing.
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President Obama calls Sonia Sotomayor (below) to wish her good luck at her confirmation hearings that start Monday.
It’s all over but the crying. There’s no way she doesn’t get in. Not when they have 60 votes.
She would fit right into the United States Senate then!!!!!!!
If all eight GOP members of the Judiciary Committee stick together and vote “no” on her nomination, it goes nowhere.
Until the Dems change the Committe rules, that is.
Does the GOP have the guts to do this? Sotomayor is clearly unqualified to be on the Supreme Court.
The Dems skewered every SC nominee by the Republicans since Bork in 1987.
It should not be a matter of letting the President have their nominees, when they are radical, unqualified, and prejudiced. Look at the radical Ginsburg, who finally admitted that eugenices was a reason for Roe v. Wade, in her view.
Democrats are the enemy of freedom.
The linked source, title and content doesn’t line up with what you have posted in the main article section of this thread. Do you have a working link for the story?
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Are the Republicans going to find their spines to object?
Dam&it ... they changed the title ...!! The title I posted was the exact wording 15 mins. ago ... jeesh. Let me see if I can find it.
I guess it was 25 mins ago when it was out there .. it’s changed. That is SO maddening.
New title - 16 minutes ago — same reporter and link
Sessions and Schumer defer on Sotomayor style
Can you change it to the current title please ?
If BO nominated Hugo Chavez, the GOP would rumble a little and then confirm his nomination.
Not one patriot in the Senate!
I can’t believe they change their headlines like that .. poof .. it’s another one!
They’ve even changed the wording! I’ll leave it to your
discretion .. sorry that you have to get involved in this aggravation. What are they rewriting for ?
Here’s exactly what I posted ... it was picked up by a blog:
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Leading Judiciary Republican charges Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor ‘out of mainstream’
Mark Sherman
July 13th, 2009
Sonia-SotomayorSupreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor ‘out of mainstream’
WASHINGTON — The leading Judiciary Committee Republican is charging that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is “out of the mainstream” of legal thinking and has a very activist judicial profile.
Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama made the assertion just hours before Sotomayor, who would be the third woman to join the court, was to face her initial confirmation hearing.
Thank you VERY much. This is nutz.
My reference post with all the links ?
But during a Megan Kelly (FNC) interview of Sessions last week she asked the question - paraphrasing "If all Republicans on the committee vote no, then the nomination does not move forward, could that happen"?"
Sessions responded "I don't think that is true at least it is not the way the committee has operated over the last few years."
Just Damn!
CSPAN COVERAGE: Confirmation Hearings Begin for Judge Sonia Sotomayor - 10:00 a.m. edt
Leahy, Sessions Announce Witness List For Sotomayor Hearing
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Sessions "Flabbergasted" by Sotomayor's Philosophy
Excerpt:
Republican Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama said today that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's judicial philosophy, as articulated in her speeches, marks "a blow, I think, at the very ideal of American justice."
"In a number of her speeches, for example, she has advocated a view that suggests that your personal experiences, even prejudices — she uses that word — it's expected that they would influence a decision you make," he told "Face The Nation" host Bob Schieffer.
*snip*
"When you show empathy for one party, Bob, you necessarily show a bias against another group."
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Sonia Sotomayor cramming in practice sessions near the West Wing
Excerpt:
These days, federal appeals court Judge Sonia Sotomayor is not in her New York chambers. She's not weighing cases or interrogating counsel or even writing opinions.
Instead, with hearings to start Monday in the historic, much-anticipated Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation process, Sotomayor is holed up in a small office in the Eisenhower Old Executive Office Building next to the White House. "She's got to hit the books," said Thomas Goldstein, a D.C. appellate attorney. "They can ask you about any part of the law. And she's got to be ready for that."
In an earlier round of get-acquainted-sessions, Sotomayor met with 70 of the Senate's 100 ......members, which should help the cordiality quotient. And the newest senator, Minnesota's Al Franken, has already tipped his hand that he plans to ask her about campaign finance laws, expected to come before the court this session.
Charles E. Schumer ~ New York Democrat
Leading the confirmation effort in the Senate as the White House-designated “sherpa” to guide Judge Sotomayor on Capitol Hill. Urged the president to nominate a Hispanic to the Supreme Court in a letter, recommending Judge Sotomayor and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/06/19/us/politics/0619-scotus.html
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