Posted on 07/19/2011 11:17:56 AM PDT by massmike
The Senate on Monday night confirmed for the first time ever an openly gay male to serve on the federal bench.
J. Paul Oetken, whom President Obama nominated in January, was voted in, 80 to 13, by the Senate to sit on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
As the first openly gay man to be confirmed as a federal judge and to serve on the federal bench, he will be a symbol of how much we have achieved as a country in just the last few decades, New York Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer said on the Senate floor on Monday
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The list of disappointing Republicans is so long that one could leave off Pat Toomey and never know the difference.
What does “openly gay” mean? Does he keep his zipper unzipped? Does he come to work in high heels and skirts? Or talk with a lisp and keep his pinkie cocked when he drinks coffee? Maybe he propositions his bailiffs and the attorneys who appear before him?
Openly gay seems to mean that anyone who sees him knows he’s gay, right? Will his name plate on the bench say, “J. Paul Oetken, Gay Judge?”
Orrin G. Hatch is a liberal sometimes compelled to vote conservative for the sake of his uninformed UT voters.
We've heard rumbles for years that this was coming -- stories about pederasty rings in high places, moral rot that would make cockroaches puke. Well, maybe we're getting closer to the end of it.
If you want to read great, educated and informative comments, just search savagesusie’s name.
I’m always begging her to write articles!!!
(hint hint, ss!)
Ohaha has done everything but be a flower girl at gay weddings.He's waiting until after he loses in 2012, the Wookie divorces him and then Ohaha and his (cough) *best friend* Reggie LOVE get engaged(1).
(1) Per wiki: Reginald L. Love ... serves as the special assistant and personal aide, commonly referred to as body man, to United States President Barack Obama.
“The quality of the federal judiciary has been going downward in general in the last several decades, so this will only grease the skids more.”
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All going according to plan, justice is not taught in law school, a sense of justice is a character trait that can be found among those of good character and little education but not among those of low character regardless of how many law degrees they may hold. The planned takeover of this country is dependent upon, among other things, a federal bench filled with those of low character and no sense of true justice.
What law school does teach is how to say patently absurd things in such scholarly language that it sounds almost reasonable. We have one judge on the South Carolina appeals court who was called out by James J. Kilpatrick many years ago in a newspaper column for using such obscure language that Kilpatrick, who was known as a master of the language, said that he had to consult every dictionary he could find to try to puzzle out the meaning of what the judge had written. I have followed the career of this judge for forty years and have found nothing to like or admire about him, not surprisingly he is held up by the profession as a role model.
“Effects of parental consanguinity on the cognitive and social behavior of children have been studied among the Ansari Muslims of Bhalgapur, Bihar.
“IQ in inbred children (8-12 years old) is found to be lower (69 in rural and 79 in suburban populations) than that of the outbred ones (79 and 95 respectively).”
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Mercy! Even those who are NOT inbred have two digit IQ numbers.
Yes, legal education in the United States has been tilted far to the left for decades, especially in the elitist law schools, and it's the left's plan to saturate the bench with their products, thus undermining the Constitution and the rule of law.
Of the nine on the SCOTUS now, for example, I believe that all but one is an alum of either Harvard or Yale law schools, the other from Stanford. So three elitist law schools account for the entire SCOTUS! No "diversity" there.
A good recent book about legal education in the US is "Schools for Misrule: Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America," by Walter Olson.
Of the 9 Justices, 3 graduated from Yale Law School (Thomas, Alito and Sotomayor) and 5 from Harvard Law School (Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Breyer and Kagan); Ginsburg graduated from Columbia Law School, but she started out at Harvard Law School and made Law Review, and only transferred to Columbia because her husband got a job in New York, so she’s pretty much a 6th Harvard there.
Still, it's really unfathomable that all of them come from 2+ Ivy League law schools. What elitism!!!
There was a time in American history when it was considered politically wise for a president to go for, among other factors, geographic balance with appointments to the SCOTUS. Apparently those days are long gone.
What do you mean there’s no geographic balance in the U.S. Supreme Court? Why, 4 of New York City’s 5 boroughs are represented—you can’t get more geographically diverse than that. /s//
The most amazing thing is that there are no Protestants on the Court (there are 6 Catholics and 3 Jews).
LOL. Which one isn't? Queens?
No, Staten Island gets the shaft, as usual.
Kagan grew up in Manhattan, Sotomayor in the Bronx, Ginsburg in Brooklyn, and Scalia in Queens.
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