Posted on 08/08/2009 6:30:46 AM PDT by kellynla
AT 3:15 P.M. Thursday, Aug. 6, the nation witnessed the confirmation of its first Hispanic justice to the Supreme Court. By a vote of 68 to 31, Sonia Maria Sotomayor, daughter of the Bronx and Puerto Rico, became the 111th person and only the third woman to join the highest court in the land.
The vote brought with it several other firsts: the first time in some four decades of service on Capitol Hill that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) was unable to cast a vote on a Supreme Court nomination; the first time in their three decades of judging nominees that Republican Sens. Orrin G. Hatch (Utah) and Charles E. Grassley (Iowa) felt compelled to vote no; the first time in its 138-year history that the National Rifle Association will factor the vote on a Supreme Court nominee in its annual report card on lawmakers and gun rights.
The moment will be remembered above all as a triumph for Justice Sotomayor, who refused to let financially humble beginnings define or restrict her in any way. She comes to the high court with as well-rounded a résumé as any justice of the past century: Princeton undergrad, Yale Law, prosecutor, corporate litigator, trial court judge and appeals court jurist. The American Bar Association bestowed on her a unanimous well-qualified rating.
Yet 31 Republicans could not bring themselves to vote for her. Some criticized her vote against white firefighters in a reverse-discrimination case. Others were concerned about her decision against two New York state property owners whose land was seized by a township and handed over to a private developer intent on building a shopping center. Others worried that she was not sympathetic enough to the rights of gun owners.
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If you don't count Judge Benjamin Cardozo.
"Some criticized her vote against white firefighters in a reverse-discrimination case."
I guess the Hispanic firefighter who was also discriminated against doesn't count.
"These senators were within their rights to dislike the outcomes, but they were wrong to overlook the fact that in each of these cases Judge Sotomayor either followed settled law or appropriately exercised judgment that was well within the mainstream."
Which explains why Sotomayor was overruled in the firefighters' case and many others by the Supreme Court
Sotomayor being a card-carrying member of LA RAZA, whats another racist on a court that has a long history of racist rulings.
Ben Cardozo was of Portuguese Jewish descent. So he technically wasnt hispanic. He was Lusitanian. Just like brazilians arent hispanic. Cuz that would imply Spanish descent. Tell any person of portuguese extraction that hes “Hispanic” (Spanish), and they generally dont appreciate it.
Sonia Sotomayor NOT the first Hispanic for US Supreme Court
http://alfassa.com/sotomayer.html
The first openly racist justice since before the civil rights era.
When I saw “Senator” AL FREAKIN’ FRANKEN reading the vote totals confirming this Manuel Noreiga dressed-in drag-looking, hate filled incompetent to the SCOTUS, where she was named by “President” BO, all I could think was “I’m in hell” Goodbye America. This is only the start.
Thanks to the Bush clan. Poppy gave us Souter, and Sonny Boy made sure he didn’t lift a finger to defend himself on anything—the Alinskyites put a boot up his a$$ and turned all the mouthbreathers against him, and what did he do? Nada, to put it in Spanish.
And God forbid Dubya and McLame do anything to keep BO out by, oh I don’t know, HAMMERING THE BC ISSUE-and Re. Wright, etc Oh no, let’s kiss BO’s behind and give him a piggyback ride to the Oval Office where he can ruin our country.
The Clintons are terrible Americans and sociopathic cretins-but I’ll say this, at least they-both of them-have some balls, which is more than I can say for some of our recent standard-bearers.....
I’d LMAO if she Soutered the libs. She could be pro life.
Yeah, but the author of the article is wrong. The correct term for persons of Portuguese descent, is “Lusitanian”. Not Hispanic.
Miguel Estrada was a fine man who should have been the first. What they did to him was a travesty.
When its personalized the left will melt. Now my child her husband and their offspring are effect by this LaRaza klan member, and its the commons lefty cultist who is at fault.
Doing otherwise (consideration of alien law) is "asking American judges to . . . close their minds," according to Sonia Sotomayor, because "ideas have no boundaries. Ideas are what set our creative juices flowing. They permit us to think."
This woman will be a disaster. The last thing we need is another bar stool philosopher on the Supreme Court. Her comments reek of "penumbras formed by emanations" and justice Kennedy's famous, "At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.”
These are the words that granted and kept going the murder of millions of innocent babies.
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