Posted on 07/15/2009 8:41:20 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor declined repeatedly at Senate confirmation hearings Wednesday to disclose her views on abortion rights, and said President Barack Obama never asked her about the issue before he chose her for the bench.
"I can't answer ... because I can't look at it in the abstract," she told Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., as he sought to draw her out with questions about hypothetical cases.
Even if she knew more about the specifics of a case, she added, "I probably couldn't opine because I'm sure that situation might well arise before the court."
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LOL, the wise Latina woman is too stupid to know how stupid she is.
U.S. Supreme Court nomineee Judge Sonia Sotomayor answers questions during the third day of her U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 15, 2009. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES POLITICS CRIME LAW)
When my kids did it I knew they were lying about something they did.
This goes for all of them not just Sotamayor.
but id you also see she said she wouldn’t rely or look to international law for dieas neither.. I guess she’s saying all the right things and then not saying anything on others.
Maybe if she flashed an active and paid up NRA membership card in her name. ;-)
Ask Sonia the Quota Queen if she regrets abortion was not a legal option for her mother.
I don’t know - she’s Catholic and this will secure a Catholic majority on the court. She might surprise us on abortion.
Translation, "when I am confirmed, I won't recuse myself during an abortion case because the more innocent lives I can help eliminate, the fewer women who will be punished with a baby".
This woman lies like a rock.
Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) questions U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill July 14, 2009. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts (UNITED STATES POLITICS CRIME LAW)
“...What is it with all her eye blinking???...”
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I said the EXACT same thing to my wife this morning. I’m not good at reading people, but it’s very easy to tell she is LYING and ARROGANT!
Also, are there any good looking radical lefts? They are all UGLY as CRAP! Maybe that’s why they are so angry...
is it just me, or does this lady come across as a befuddled WalMart greeter?
It’s not just you—Walmart likes to have all races represented, too—LOL!
I have a hard time seeing her being any different than Kennedy or Pelosi on that particular issue.
From many Protestant points of view the "Catholic majority" existed when Rhenquist (Lutheran) and O'Connor (Episcopal) sat with three or four other Catholic Justices.
I took a quick look at past lists of justices according to professed religious affiliation (note that "professed" although we know many of them were truly in league with Satan, heh, heh) and I didn't catch any earlier Episcopal/Lutheran/Catholic combinations that yielded a majority like that unless John Marshall's Anglican dominated bench did so ~ but I think there were fewer judges in those days.
Today's court with 6 members of a single denomination is very unusual. We don't even have an Orthodox member ~ not sure we ever did ~ long overdue.
I have a hard time seeing her being any different than Kennedy or Pelosi on that particular issue.
Coburn vs. Sotomayor
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_pl699
“Do I have a right to personal self-defense?” Coburn asked.
Sotomayor: “That’s an abstract question.”
Coburn: “That’s what the public wants to know. Yes or no? Do we have that right?”
The judge thought for a moment, then came up with an answer based on her experience as a New York City prosecutor: “If there’s a threat of serious injury you can use force. How imminent is the threat? If the threat is in this room and I go home get a gun and come back and shoot you, that may not be legal under New York law.”
Coburn: “What the American people want to see is what your gut says.”
Sotomayor said that’s not how judges decide cases.
>>I have a hard time seeing her being any different than Kennedy or Pelosi on that particular issue.<<
Lets hope you are wrong this time.
What we will get is La Raza on the Supreme Court.
A frumpy one at that.
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