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Senate confirms Sotomayor, first Hispanic justice
The Hill ^ | 08/06/2009 | J. Taylor Rushing

Posted on 08/06/2009 12:20:10 PM PDT by Pyro7480

The Senate on Thursday sent Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court with a modest display of bipartisan support, making her the first Hispanic justice and only the third woman to serve on the high court.

The 68-31 vote held few surprises, as a small band of Republicans joined Democrats in confirming her 72 days after President Barack Obama nominated the former prosecutor and judge. Her confirmation paves the way for Sotomayor to begin assembling her staff and prepare for the court to convene in October.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; bho2009; bho44; bhojudicialnominees; obama; scotus; sotomayor; supremecourt
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To: Pyro7480

Anybody that supported this racist appointment needs to be removed from office at the next opportunity. I’m sick of the war on white males. It’s gotten so that a white heterosexual man has to work twice as hard for twice as long to get half as far as anybody in a “favored” group.


41 posted on 08/06/2009 12:34:16 PM PDT by meyer (It's 1938 all over again - the democrats are the new NAZIs and conservatives are the new Jews.)
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To: Pyro7480
BFD!
42 posted on 08/06/2009 12:34:50 PM PDT by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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Next up in the RINO hunt, the Republicans that voted for the loony latina


44 posted on 08/06/2009 12:35:07 PM PDT by shanghai gumbo
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45 posted on 08/06/2009 12:35:33 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Tarpon
I am just sorry they didn’t get a smart one.

I'm not. This lightweight will have no sway. She may even push Kennedy the other way.

A smart one would have been far, far worse.

46 posted on 08/06/2009 12:35:40 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (... it's just a shot away.)
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To: Pyro7480

Yup, so to translate the senators: “We know she’s a racist, anti-white b1tch, but we’re gonna put her through anyway.”


47 posted on 08/06/2009 12:36:03 PM PDT by lado
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To: donmeaker
Second Hispanic Justice. Justice Cardozo was nominated by Herbert Hoover in 1932.

This is what upsets me so much about Black and Hispanic communities. For all of their talk, they know NOTHING about their own history. It's just like when some "leader" introduced Obama after his election to the US Senate as the "first black senator from IL (cheers)". DAMN FOOLS! Did they forget about Obama's Immediate predecessor Carol Mosely-Braun that damn quick??! And when the TOTUS-to-be went on his Euro-Tour Live, in Germany, he mentioned, that "I know that I don't look like the Americans who've previously spoken in this great city", Do we so quickly forget?

48 posted on 08/06/2009 12:36:04 PM PDT by Clock King (There's no way to fix D.C.)
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To: Pyro7480
Looks like the Spaniard reconquest is moving ahead smartly.

Should have our own ranting Hugo Chavez running the country soon now.

The Thug State just advanced a few light years.

49 posted on 08/06/2009 12:36:06 PM PDT by Regulator (Welcome to Zimbabwe! Now hand over your property)
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To: walsh

And remember that the wanna be senator, Toomey of PA, would have voted for the “wise” Latina.


50 posted on 08/06/2009 12:36:11 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (Another day, another injury, another step closer...)
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To: Pyro7480

My Sephardic wife who is related to Cardozo would dispute that. Plus he had talent


51 posted on 08/06/2009 12:36:21 PM PDT by moopie1
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To: Puppage

Were both her parents hispanic?


52 posted on 08/06/2009 12:36:34 PM PDT by Ceoman
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To: Pyro7480

I’m surprised it wasn’t 80-20


53 posted on 08/06/2009 12:37:15 PM PDT by GeronL (Guilty of the crime of deviationism.)
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To: Clock King
Justice Cardozo was nominated by Herbert Hoover in 1932

But of course, Sonia Babee is no Benjamin Cardozo.

54 posted on 08/06/2009 12:37:27 PM PDT by Regulator (Welcome to Zimbabwe! Now hand over your property)
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To: SamStone

You miscounted, there were 68 ‘yea’ votes.


55 posted on 08/06/2009 12:37:30 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

/saracasm ... You didn’t see the tag.

I agree with you, the dolt will look just like what she is, a dolt. She will be eaten alive by the other Justices.


56 posted on 08/06/2009 12:37:35 PM PDT by Tarpon (Never ever trust the Joker)
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To: SumProVita
Alexander will never get anything in Tennessee again.

He needs to go.

57 posted on 08/06/2009 12:37:52 PM PDT by meyer (It's 1938 all over again - the democrats are the new NAZIs and conservatives are the new Jews.)
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To: Pyro7480

Its time to take names and kick ass.........


58 posted on 08/06/2009 12:38:04 PM PDT by Concho ( No Birth Certificate-No Census!)
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To: Pyro7480

She also has the distinction of being the least intelligent person ever appointed to the Supreme Court!


59 posted on 08/06/2009 12:38:13 PM PDT by BJClinton (One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: shanghai gumbo

Any bets that if they are running they will be reelected?


60 posted on 08/06/2009 12:38:49 PM PDT by Digger (If RINO is your selection, then failure is your election)
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