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Sotomayor, Kagan ready for battles [Obama's 2 Lapdogs Think they can beat up on Scalia]
Washington Post ^ | 2/28/13 | Dana Milbank

Posted on 02/28/2013 5:49:11 PM PST by SoFloFreeper

For a quarter-century, Antonin Scalia has been the reigning bully of the Supreme Court, but finally a couple of justices are willing to face him down.

As it happens, the two manning up to take on Nino the Terrible are women: the court’s newest members, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

The acerbic Scalia, the court’s longest-serving justice, got his latest comeuppance Wednesday morning...Scalia, assuming powers of clairvoyance, argued that the lawmakers were secretly afraid to vote against this “perpetuation of racial entitlement.”

...The two new justices are sending a message to the court’s conservative majority: You may have the votes, but you’re going to have a fight.

Wednesday’s voting rights case was typical. Surprisingly, the five conservative justices seemed willing to strike down a landmark civil rights law (the provision that gives extra scrutiny to states with past discrimination) that was renewed with near-unanimous votes in Congress. Conservative jurists usually claim deference to the elected branches, but in this case they look an awful lot like activist judges legislating from the bench.

Sotomayor allowed the lawyer for the Alabama county seeking to overturn the law to get just four sentences into his argument before interrupting him. “Assuming I accept your premise — and there’s some question about that — that some portions of the South have changed, your county pretty much hasn’t,” she charged. “Why would we vote in favor of a county whose record is the epitome of what caused the passage of this law to start with?”

Moments later, Kagan pointed out that “Alabama has no black statewide elected officials” and has one of the worst records of voting rights violations.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fakepotus; kenyanbornmuzzie; lesbian; racist; scotus
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks SoFloFreeper.


21 posted on 02/28/2013 6:30:27 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: lula
lula wrote:

Oh how I wish Jim would give us a “like” button.

"BTTT" is FTW!

22 posted on 02/28/2013 6:34:49 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: Viennacon; SoFloFreeper
Kagan and Sotomayor are barely qualified to judge a chess tournament.

How dare you! HOW DARE YOU, SIR!

Chess is an ancient and noble game. It is subtle and complex. It requires dedication, intelligence, and hard work to become even modestly proficient at the game. The game is never "mastered," even with a lifetime of study.

I have never been so offended. I demand an apology, to me, to all admirers of the game, and to the game itself. 1

23 posted on 02/28/2013 6:49:06 PM PST by rmh47 (Go Kats! - Got eight? NRA Life Member])
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To: SoFloFreeper

Watching my Constitutional Republic evolve into a Peoples Republic. Sigh.


24 posted on 02/28/2013 6:51:41 PM PST by VR-21
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To: SoFloFreeper
...but in this case they look an awful lot like activist judges legislating from the bench.

Interesting take by the Dems and their propaganda arm "media" when it is their ox being gored. [sarc on] And here I thought "activist judges legislating from the bench" was the liberal's wet dream. /sarc

25 posted on 02/28/2013 6:55:48 PM PST by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: SoFloFreeper
These people are best described as "Stalinist War Horses" ~ it's a type found frequently among the second tier Commies in the old USSR, but we have them here as well.

They imagine their strong adherence to such a failed ideology proves that it must still be the thing to do to organize any society ~ and that they are the folks to do it.

They will do anything ~ including murder innocent people ~ to pursue that end.

You can't trust any of them.

26 posted on 02/28/2013 7:09:28 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: SoFloFreeper

Dana Millbank is a male of the species.


27 posted on 02/28/2013 7:10:22 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: Williams
They actually complained that a state doesn’t have a statewide elected black official. Do you doubt for a second these radical bimbos would install a black governor by affirmative action?

Fact is, a black Republican stands a pretty good chance of being elected statewide in Alabama.

But a black Democrat would never win a statewide primary.

28 posted on 02/28/2013 7:26:43 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: SoFloFreeper
"'Alabama has no black statewide elected officials' and has one of the worst records of voting rights violations."

Translation:
Alabama is one of the states where we (liberals racists) haven't implemented a workable vote fraud process, yet.

29 posted on 02/28/2013 7:32:41 PM PST by Baynative (Lord, keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.)
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To: rmh47

You’re right. That was a horrific insult to chess. I’m sorry.


30 posted on 02/28/2013 7:53:17 PM PST by Viennacon
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To: SoFloFreeper; Lurking Libertarian; JDW11235; Clairity; TheOldLady; Spacetrucker; Art in Idaho; ...

FReepmail me to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the SCOTUS ping list.

31 posted on 02/28/2013 8:13:24 PM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Good Gawd, the wise Latina and the wise lesbian on the warpath. GOD help us!


32 posted on 02/28/2013 8:17:06 PM PST by Marathoner (What are we waiting for? Where are the Articles of Impeachment!)
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To: Lumper20

News reporters at the WSJ are largely liberal; the conservatives reside on the editorial board.


33 posted on 02/28/2013 8:41:23 PM PST by ExNewsExSpook
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To: SoFloFreeper

Whew, that report makes the two women sound like a couple of cackling hens.
Cackling hens who can’t stop themselves from rudely interrupting other people.


34 posted on 02/28/2013 8:49:02 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: skeeter

Milbank is your typical Democrat shill.
I wouldn’t take anything he writes seriously.


35 posted on 02/28/2013 8:50:41 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: SoFloFreeper

scalia probably feels guilty, it must be like going up against mentally deficient persons.


36 posted on 02/28/2013 11:44:39 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: originalbuckeye

I think Milbank is female.


37 posted on 03/01/2013 1:46:12 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Milbank is a Flamer, I think.


38 posted on 03/01/2013 2:49:59 AM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION........the HUMAN sacrifice to the god of CONVENIENCE.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

When John Roberts legislated from the bench and when Kagen and Sotomayor were confirmed to the court, the court was rendered worthless and political in my opinion.

Their rulings, to me, are irrelevant.


39 posted on 03/01/2013 3:39:20 AM PST by jakota (jakota)
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To: Viennacon

Apology accepted! ;>)


40 posted on 03/01/2013 5:51:52 AM PST by rmh47 (Go Kats! - Got eight? NRA Life Member])
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