Posted on 08/06/2009 12:20:10 PM PDT by Pyro7480
The Senate on Thursday sent Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court with a modest display of bipartisan support, making her the first Hispanic justice and only the third woman to serve on the high court.
The 68-31 vote held few surprises, as a small band of Republicans joined Democrats in confirming her 72 days after President Barack Obama nominated the former prosecutor and judge. Her confirmation paves the way for Sotomayor to begin assembling her staff and prepare for the court to convene in October.
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There are plenty of conservative Protestants who could sit on the Supreme Court.
And they're not.
There's an old law school joke that says that those who get "A's" become law professors. Those who get "B's" become judges, and those who get "C's" become millionaires. :)
But to address your question, it is true that most judges and Supremes have some sort of trial experience. What we need to remember is that being a "trial lawyer" isn't necessarily a bad thing. The Trial Lawyers Association gets a lot of ink and they are the liberal, ambulance-chasing wing that gives millions to the socialist Rats. However, whenever they are in court they are opposed by other trial lawyers (corporate defense, etc.). In addition, law and order (good guy) prosecutors are really trial lawyers. It's really the liberal, ambulance-chasing Trial Lawyers Association that are the bad guys since they are the biggest obstacle to tort reform, which would really go far in controlling health insurance costs.
I agree. I’m someone who doesn’t bad-mouth defense attorneys. They are, if needed, our last line of defense against the state.
It's really the liberal, ambulance-chasing Trial Lawyers Association that are the bad guys since they are the biggest obstacle to tort reform, which would really go far in controlling health insurance costs.
They, the bad guys, make up most of Congress, are heavy contributors for no tort reform, and are powerful lobbyists. It is no coincidence that there is no tort reform in the so-called Healthcare Reform Bill.
Back then people didn’t assign scads of virtue to historical items over which they had no control. Well aside from that RINO TR who proclaimed that he had ‘not one drop of English blood’.
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