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Sotomayor reversed 60% by high court
Washington Times ^ | Wednesday, May 27, 2009 | Stephen Dinan

Posted on 05/27/2009 1:00:43 AM PDT by JohnHuang2

With Judge Sonia Sotomayor already facing questions over her 60 percent reversal rate, the Supreme Court could dump another problem into her lap next month if, as many legal analysts predict, the court overturns one of her rulings upholding a race-based employment decision.

Three of the five majority opinions written by Judge Sotomayor for the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals and reviewed by the Supreme Court were reversed, providing a potent line of attack raised by opponents Tuesday after President Obama announced he will nominate the 54-year-old Hispanic woman to the high court.

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Obama at first said he was looking for someone with lots of "empathy" for the "hopes and struggles" of losers, but with Sonia Sotomayor it looks like he decided to zero in on *stupid* instead. In Sotomayor, Obama had found someone in the likeness of Obama (albeit with Manuel Noriega's face).

Among Sotomayor's much-heralded "disadvantages" is apparently the lack of any brains. She is so obviously lightweight, one liberal reporter has noticed it. Jeffery Rosen wrote in The New Republic that Sotomayor "'is not that smart and kind of a bully on the bench,'" in the words of one former clerk for the court she currently sits on. Rosen noted that "people who have worked with her, nearly all of them former law clerks for other judges on the Second Circuit or former federal prosecutors in New York" doubted Sotomayor's "ability to provide the intellectual counterweight to the conservative justices." Most of these former clerks and federal prosecutors are Democrats.

In the Ricci v. DeStefano case, "empathetic" Sotomayor empathetically ruled against 'white firefighters' who were denied promotion because they passed an examination for promotion. Since the test didn't yield any qualified black candidates, the New Haven authority, out of a profound sense of fairness, canned the test results and gave no promotions. Frank Ricci and his firefighting colleagues, who were discriminated against, filed a lawsuit, arguing they were discriminated against. But the fervently stupid Sotomayor thinks the test was "racist". But one of the 'white firefighters' is Hispanic. The vicious Klansmen who formulated the test messed up.

Ruling as part of a three-judge 2nd Circuit panel, Sotomayor upheld the case's dismissal. The court grappled with the mountains of briefs and extended oral arguments in the case by issuing a lengthy ruling consisting of a one-paragraph opinion.

Sotomayor's lunatic decisions get routinely reversed on appeal, so the firefighters' case stands an excellent chance before the Supremes.

Speaking of lunatic decisions (besides nominating Sotomayor), in the Maloney v. Cuomo case, Sotomayor ruled that the 2nd Amendment which states that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" means that states can infringe all they want, that infringing is OK so long as it's not the feds doing the infringing. This puts Sotomayor to the left of the 9th Circuit Court, earning her the label "centrist" in the media.

The "centrist" and "moderate" Sotomayor is against laws keeping convicted felons from casting ballots because it "disqualifies a group of people from voting" -- darling groups such as cop-killers, the Manson family, etc. She's ruled against the EPA doing cost-benefit analysis to find the 'best technology available' -- out of fairness for inferior technology. Sotomayor routinely apologizes to convicted criminals during sentencing.

But if the goal in picking Sotomayor was finding someone sufficiently out of step with normal Americans to appease the Democrats' nut base, it worked. Even Kim Jong-Il is happy. He fired three more rockets in celebration!

Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"

1 posted on 05/27/2009 1:00:43 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2

A moron like this won’t persuade Kennedy and may even push someone like Breyer over to the good side on occasion. An intelligent scholarly professor type would have been a more effective choice for the liberal cause. I guess Obama is counting on more picks..


2 posted on 05/27/2009 1:29:00 AM PDT by Chet 99
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To: JohnHuang2

Obama just gets worse and worse.


3 posted on 05/27/2009 1:39:42 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: JohnHuang2
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Judge Sonia Sotomayor: "Court is Where Policy is Made"

Link to YouTube video of her making the comment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfC99LrrM2Q

4 posted on 05/27/2009 2:20:35 AM PDT by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: JohnHuang2

saving. Thank you, as always.


5 posted on 05/27/2009 2:23:47 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: JohnHuang2

Thanks President Bush I for getting her to this position in the first place. He nominated her during his presidency.


6 posted on 05/27/2009 2:31:24 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: JohnHuang2

Her comment... “Court of Appeals is where policy is made. And I know - I know this is on tape, and I should never say that because we don’t make law. I know.” ...is bad enough for its substance, but what’s worse, imo, is that she must have known (and likely strived for) that a possible higher court appointment may be in her future and she still made such a comment. This speaks volumes of her ‘judgment’ and that is the main attribute that should weigh heavy in those who must make the decision to vote on her candidacy. It won’t. But it should.


7 posted on 05/27/2009 2:35:08 AM PDT by Kent C
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To: napscoordinator
Just as he did Souter, the king of land takeovers!

Oh, the folly of past and present lightweights in the executive and legislative arenas continues to haunt by wreaking havoc on us all! I can only pray for right to be done, for good fortune to reverse the decline we've witnessed.

Regards . . .Penny

8 posted on 05/27/2009 2:59:54 AM PDT by Penny
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To: Chet 99

“I guess Obama is counting on more picks..”

That’s OK, they can just give Roberts another epileptic attack next time he’s anywhere precarious.


9 posted on 05/27/2009 3:22:38 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out (click my name)
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To: JohnHuang2
You can take the hood rat out of the hood but you can't take the hood out of the hood rat. If any white man said the same things she did they would be drummed out of the judiciary. The fact that she is being celebrated for saying them says we have a very long way to go achieving a color blind society. In fact, I would categorically state that the rats perpetuate this animosity for their own selfish political gain.
10 posted on 05/27/2009 4:02:49 AM PDT by RU88
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To: JohnHuang2

Even the weather man gets it right more than she does.


11 posted on 05/27/2009 4:04:51 AM PDT by jilliane
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To: Chet 99

SO - 60% of the time she’s been proven to make the WRONG decision. And this qualifies her for the Supreme Court HOW???


12 posted on 05/27/2009 4:16:20 AM PDT by bolobaby
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To: JohnHuang2

BFL


13 posted on 05/27/2009 4:19:20 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: freekitty
Obama just gets worse and worse.

It looks like exactly what you'd expect from someone who thinks the US Constitution if fundamentally flawed, and electing him President is the first good thing we ever did.

14 posted on 05/27/2009 4:22:05 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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SO - 60% of the time she’s been proven to make the WRONG decision. And this qualifies her for the Supreme Court HOW???

1. She sits down to pee.
2. She is a color
3. She is a liberal whacko.

15 posted on 05/27/2009 4:24:05 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: bolobaby
“SO - 60% of the time she’s been proven to make the WRONG decision. And this qualifies her for the Supreme Court HOW???”

To ideologues, they are always right. The only question to them is whether they ‘win’ by getting to push their agenda forward.

16 posted on 05/27/2009 4:24:18 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: JohnHuang2

She seems qualified to be a part of Sesame Street, not SCOTUS.


17 posted on 05/27/2009 5:08:33 AM PDT by PghBaldy (Obama latest TelePrompTer goof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiRhHqlzaG4)
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To: JohnHuang2

The Republican argument about why Sotomayor is inappropriate is clearly in the article that states she was overturned 60+% of the time. That kind of record should make any judge ineligible. Not because of her liberal record or her gender or her family origins. Let the truth be told. It will win in the end even though there are not enough votes to stop this nomination.


18 posted on 05/27/2009 7:11:09 AM PDT by kevinm13 (Tim Geithner is a tax cheat. Manmade "Global Warming" is a HOAX!)
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To: JohnHuang2
Three of the five majority opinions written by Judge Sotomayor for the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals and reviewed by the Supreme Court were reversed...

She has written five majority opinions for the 2nd Circuit? That's it? And she's being nominated for the highest court in the country?

Even setting aside the 60% reversal rate, this is laughable. She has about as much experience as Obama.

19 posted on 05/27/2009 7:57:05 AM PDT by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.)
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To: JohnHuang2

Excellent!


20 posted on 05/27/2009 8:05:45 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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