Posted on 05/31/2009 12:38:53 PM PDT by advance_copy
If Sotomayor is confirmed that will make the court 2/3 Roman Catholic. I'm guessing that no one around here is concerned about this. But how many Catholics would be too many? Since there are two Jews, I suppose they also over-represent their co-religionists.
Follow up.... Looked into O’Connor’s full statement and it was as I expected. Found this:
O’Connor:
“As a state court judge once said, at the end of the day, a wise old woman and a wise old man reach the same _decision_. _But_ (she’s differentiating here) there is always a need for diversity of backgrounds **to permit a fuller _discussion_ of the issues** presented to the court. Women, because of their life experiences, **bring that something extra to the _discussion_**.”(my emphasis)
And this is where O’Connor gets it right and Sotomayor gets it wrong. O’Connor sees the ‘judgment’, conclusion, decision from a purely ‘blind justice’ position as it should be and yet the _discussion_ can be ‘flavored’ if you will, from the individual justice’s life experiences as Alito also says. But Sotomayor is talking judgments, conclusions and decisions and this is where _she_ thinks the ‘life experience’ _Also_ plays a part, iow, she is not suited for the Supreme Court. This is the exact embodiment of prejudice and bias whether it is racial, gender or otherwise - ie. when the judgment is “flavored” as well.
Ha! Remember when Alito was nominated, how the left went berserk because there were going to be too many Catholics (along with their pro-life attitudes) on the Court? I guess since Sotomayor is pro-abortion, they won't mind that she's Catholic, in fact, I'm guessing they'll trumpet the fact that she's an 'acceptable' Catholic; the kind That One wants to lead the Catholic Church in America, based on his speech at Notre Dame.
Would it be OK for Alito to say this?
“I would like to know who paid for the educations they both received?
How did they get into those schools?”
Ditto for Dumb’O.
She doesn’t strike me as a person of deep intellect - my gut tells me that affirmative action was involved - a double dose (woman & hispanic). So she would be the second affirmative action Supreme... following Notsogood Marshall.
“I guess since Sotomayor is pro-abortion, they won’t mind that she’s Catholic, in fact, I’m guessing they’ll trumpet the fact that she’s an ‘acceptable’ Catholic...”
Of this I’m convinced - “Politics trumps everything!!! Race, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, etc.”
Even religion, which is rather odd since there is a great deal of overlap between religion and politics (values is the foundation of both). I suppose it’s so because each practitioner has somewhat different beliefs, even if they claim to be of the same religion.
Why are these questions never answered in public forum? Seems to me, this country has taken very good care of the poor who want an education.
Then after they get “educated” they turn on the ones who paid their bills and want to “change” everything? Something is wrong here!!
I once heard Thurgood Marshall give a speech. He was a very smart guy and it was a fascinating speech that even you would have appreciated. He said that he had been invited to assist in writing the constitutions of many new countries. But the best constitution of any country was still that of the United States.
Marshall was born in 1908 and obviously when he was growing up affirmative action did not yet exist - just the opposite. Since he had already successfully argued many cases before the Supreme Court before his appointment, it seems that he was a well-qualified individual to be considered for appointment.
Ah, as Alice said in Wonderland, “Curiouser and curiouser.”
I had not heard about any dust up in a DC park.
Sotomayor did not simply state that her background would add diversity to the bench. She asserted that her judgement is superior to that of a white male because of her race.
YEP
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