Not a Wise Latina: Justice Sotomayor ‘paraded her scientific ignorance’ in questioning during oral arguments on Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health

American Thinker ^ | 12/08/2021 | Thomas Lifson

[SeekAndFind]

Justice Sotomayor paraded her scientific ignorance even further, callously comparing a fetus recoiling from pain to the muscle reflex of a brain-dead patient. "There's about 40 percent of dead people who, if you touch their feet, the foot will recoil," she said. In fact, brain-dead people do not "recoil" from painful stimuli as living people do. One of the ways we diagnose brain death is by documenting the loss of response to pain. You could amputate a brain-dead person's limb with no response at all. Some extremely specific spinal reflexes persist in brain death while the patient remains on cardiac and respiratory support. But there is simply no "recoil" to touch in brain death.

[Lurkinanloomin]

NONE of the justices or judges appointed by the Kenyanesian Usurper have any interest in the Constitution or the rule of law.

It’s all about advancing the leftist agenda.

[Howie66]

Proving yet again that Quota Hires never, ever live up to their hype.

[joshua c]

when she made the “stench” remark she was insulting her fellow justices

[allendale]

Sotomayor is just another example of the destructive absurdity of giving demented old ladies real power in this culture. Pelosi, Feinstein, Collins, Jackson, Murkowski, Kagan, Yellin, Harris, etc. etc. etc. Doubtful the nation will survive this curse.

[Maris Crane]

Correct.

Except for the part about “surviving.”

The Nation SHALL survive.

[John S Mosby]

They are ALL rubber stamps for unConstitutional legislation (actually DICTAT, declarations as “law”) from the judicial bench. Totally unconstitutional. Period.

Emphasis is on the “rubber” of the stamp they are— “flexibility” to Marxism and totalitarianism.

The depth of the stupidity of the “wise Latina” is astounding. Stupid, flailing around, pretending knowledge where there is not— and finally spouting political claptrap and fellow travelling.

[lepton]

Sotomayor demonstrated long ago that she doesn’t have the intellectual rigor to even pretend to be a judge in the federal courts system, much less an appellate judge.

[fuzzylogic]

True - but they also realize they have to come up with very well reasoned arguments to justify their decisions. At this point it is going to be very difficult...

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

As a collective group the stupidest people I know. Can’t think worth a flip, just feel.

[Pining_4_TX]

They aren’t too bright, either. They were chosen for their lefty credentials and their race/sex/ethnicity, not their judicial expertise.

[SeekAndFind]

[budj]

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I’ve seen that face before. Took a long time but Sotomayor reminds me of the Harold Lloyd’s Mother-in-law in HOT WATER.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/kTpCSxjXRurfBgNoDOXphRsrRnRSSgIMDgyXpVH8PNb3IOW7sBMpUrGg6TEzPsZfPrhrbFzhpvB_Y78yMucJ4MIjQbOiLAVl8xfSZneWtRdGOhWk

[bobbo666]

The only reason this sack was appointed was to check boxes. Kinda like Hillary was supposed to have been elected cause it “was her turn”.

[SeekAndFind]

[wbarmy]

comparing a fetus recoiling from pain to the muscle reflex of a brain-dead patient.

My patient and longsuffering wife of 40 years went a little crazy on that remark. She is the mother of our five children and a registered nurse. She KNOWS the difference between fetal pain and a brain-dead patient.

She was not happy with that comparison.

[Deplorable American1776]

She's an expert on brain death!!!

She's is brain dead for years... 🤓

Of course, her party has a brain dead figurehead who's residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

[Deplorable American1776]

She's an expert on brain death!!!

She's is brain dead for years... 🤓

Of course, her party has a brain dead figurehead who's residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

[Deplorable American1776]

I wouldn’t let her judge a dog show... 🤓