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Sotomized: Dumbing Down the Court
Canada Free Press ^ | 07/15/2009C | Joy Tiz

Posted on 07/16/2009 7:48:29 AM PDT by jazminerose

At the beginning of the film, The Paper Chase, the somber professor tells his classroom of first year law students that they would have to learn to think like lawyers. He meant the need to cultivate the skill of analytical thinking that is required to understand legal issues. Understanding basic contract or tort law isn’t the great struggle in law school. Figuring out how to spot an issue, understand the rule of law and apply it to a given set of facts is the mission. Next is grappling with the Weltschmerz of not being the smartest one in the room anymore. Core courses are commonly studied for a year; the art of legal analysis starts on day one and doesn’t end until the bar exam.

Presumably, when presented with a dispute, a capable lawyer knows how to ferret out the actual issues involved. Much of what people want to sue each other over is, legally, nonsensical. Any litigator in practice will tell you about the equanimity required with clients who don’t understand how to articulate an actual point to their stories of being done wrong.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; incompetence; obama; ricci; sotomayor

1 posted on 07/16/2009 7:48:32 AM PDT by jazminerose
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To: jazminerose

BAd headline. It cheapens the story.


2 posted on 07/16/2009 7:50:50 AM PDT by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.)
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To: jazminerose

Somebody (*cough* Sotomayer) managed to escape with her “head full of mush” still intact.


3 posted on 07/16/2009 7:51:09 AM PDT by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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To: jazminerose

“At the beginning of the film, The Paper Chase, the somber professor tells his classroom of first year law students that they would have to learn to think like lawyers. He meant the need to cultivate the skill of analytical thinking that is required to understand legal issues.”

Which is why it’s impossible for a liberal to be a judge. They think too much from the heart.


4 posted on 07/16/2009 7:53:52 AM PDT by Slapshot68
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To: jazminerose

I am praying that Roberts will the one to slowly educate this notsobright latina.

Doubtful Rehnquist could have done it, his demeanor was quite different than Roberts.

If Ginsberg resigns we’ll have a better chance of keeping the Court educated and on the right track.

Just have to keep praying for America.


5 posted on 07/16/2009 8:05:22 AM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: jazminerose
My article on Sotomayor has been republished nationally, both on websites and in print. The major problem with Sotomayor is not that she is intellectually shallow (which is true), but that she doesn't understand that the Constitution is meant to be obeyed by all, including Justices of the Court.

After all, the Constitution refers to itself as "the supreme Law." The "wise Latina woman" somehow missed that clause in her 19 years as a judge.

Congressman Billybob

Latest article, "Judge Sonia Sotomayor: Liar?"

6 posted on 07/16/2009 8:06:01 AM PDT by Congressman Billybob (www.AmericasOwnersManual.com)
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To: jazminerose

Therein lies the difference between judges like Scalia and Sotomayor. Scalia will dissect an argument with laser like precision and leave the presenter looking foolish. Sotomayor will empathize with the presenter if she is sympathetic to the issue and emote her way to a decision.


7 posted on 07/16/2009 8:10:02 AM PDT by Enterprise (When they come for your guns and ammo, give them the ammo first.)
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To: jazminerose

Good read. I thought Sotomayor’s responses were intellectually lacking. I couldn’t help be impressed with her rapid blinking, it was almost distracting. She did not demonstrate automatic clear, logical mental processing.


8 posted on 07/16/2009 8:10:47 AM PDT by Dudoight
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To: Slapshot68

“They think too much from the heart.”

Latina women react from the heart; they skip the thinking part.


9 posted on 07/16/2009 8:14:30 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (Jim Thompson for POTUS)
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To: jazminerose

She will get help from her clerks, but since they are little better than your average libtard I must assume that the left’s legal heavyweights will write her opinions like they did Marshall’s. BTW Sailer at takimag devestates her with Robert’s and Scalia’s interogation of Bambi’s solicitor.


10 posted on 07/16/2009 8:41:36 AM PDT by junta (I am the son of Yacub, who for one welcomes my new overlord Obama.)
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To: Slapshot68

If you think for one second that liberal thinking is from the heart, you need an anatomy lesson...


11 posted on 07/16/2009 8:47:52 AM PDT by Steamburg ( Your wallet speaks the only language most politicians understand.)
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To: jazminerose

The left smeared Justice Thomas as not intellectually bright, which is untrue. They ignore that the “latina woman” is neither wise nor a first rate intellect.

It’s a dumbing down of the Court in a distinctly leftward manner. For whatever your criticisms of Ginsberg and Souter, at least there is some intellect at work there (however misguided). Sonia the Quota Queen isn’t close to those two, and not even on the same chart as Scalia or Alito.


12 posted on 07/16/2009 8:52:16 AM PDT by henkster (A "Living Constitution" yields a Dead Republic)
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I think Sotomayor’s testimony establishes she was ONLY in law school as a quota admission NOT a merit admission.

She is clearly incompetent and is only able to answer the questions which were leaked to her.

Even in this day and age of more law schools than there are law students, she should have been flunked out based on her inability to communicate and speak in english.

Her conduct in the New Haven discrimination case should have resulted in a hearing to remove her from the bench.


13 posted on 07/16/2009 2:14:56 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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