Her defenders are trying.
Hey folks,
Are you buying? They REALLY want this idiot confirmed. They are attempting to spin her Racist comment and they are using her "record" to back up their allegations that she is not a Racist. There is a BIG problem with that though.
According to The Wall Street Journal - Sotomayor's Defense on 'Wise Latina' Comment Takes Shape By NAFTALI BENDAVID
WASHINGTON -- When Judge Sonia Sotomayor faces the Senate Judiciary Committee next week, she will finally get to explain before the cameras her comment that a "wise Latina" can often reach a better conclusion than a white man. That response could help determine whether her confirmation is smooth or rocky.
Despite the furor surrounding the remark -- which she made at a law school in 2001, among other occasions -- Judge Sotomayor hasn't been able to address it publicly since her nomination, because nominees typically don't speak out before their hearings.
She could if she wanted to. But she is waiting for the spin.
However, she did discuss it privately when she made the rounds of senators following her nomination. Based on those discussions, she is likely to say that her judicial record shows no hint of the bias or activism that critics see in the remark. She also is expected to defend the importance of diversity on the bench, while perhaps offering a nod to critics by calling her choice of words imperfect.
One BIG example is the Firefighter case that just got overturned.
"I asked her that question...and she was very direct," said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.). "She just said, '[Latina identity] is something that informs my experience, but I'm always going to look to judicial precedent, I'm always going to follow the rule of law.'"
Problem, she has been OVERTURNED 65 percent of the time. Apparently she is on the WRONG side of the "rule of law." 65 percent of the time.
Manuel Miranda, a former aide to Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee who is working against Judge Sotomayor's confirmation, said that "the whole race-bias issue" suggested by the remark will probably be the liveliest part of the hearing. "I think that's explosive, I think that's worthwhile, I think that's entertaining," Mr. Miranda said. "Then it becomes pretty boring."
Judge Sotomayor made the now-famous comment in a speech at the University of California, Berkeley, in which she noted that even great judges like Oliver Wendell Holmes had voted to uphold racial and sex discrimination.
"I would hope that a wise Latina woman, with the richness of her experiences, would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life," she said.
The White House initially argued that, as spokesman Robert Gibbs put it, "She'd say her word choice in 2001 was poor." But it soon emerged that Judge Sotomayor had used similar language on several other occasions.
Because she is a RACIST!
Sen. Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.), a strong supporter of Judge Sotomayor, said she pointed out to him that several sentences later in the same speech, she observed that many white men had issued great opinions, including Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 case outlawing segregation in public schools.
{Laughing} So because she gave "Some White Men" a prop, she is not Racist?
Mr. Schumer made the argument that is likely to be Judge Sotomayor's chief response -- that her 17-year judicial record, including hundreds of rulings, shows no evidence of unfairness or tilting the scales in favor of minority groups, whatever she may have said in speeches.
"Paraphrasing Joe Friday, 'Just look at the record, folks,'" Mr. Schumer said.
Cases that clearly show Racist Bias and 65 percent turnover rate. OK. Let's look at that.
But many Republicans consider the comment biased on its face. Judge Sotomayor has told Republican senators her wording was "inadvertent" and "inartful," but they will press her hard at the hearing for a persuasive disavowal.
"I do think that based on her speeches and writings, that it will be essential that she convincingly assert that she will be impartial," said Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), the Judiciary Committee's top Republican.
Democrats are certain to argue, if Judge Sotomayor doesn't, that conservative Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito cited their Italian-American backgrounds during their own confirmation hearings, to suggest their sensitivity to discrimination and sympathy for immigrants.
"Just based on her record, she is clearly not, as her opponents are saying, an activist," Ms. Gillibrand said. "She is someone who follows precedent, follows the rule of law and is very judicial in temperament."
But that really is NOT what her record shows folks. She is who and what she is. She is NOT the right person for the job. No matter how much they try to spin it.
Peter
Sources:
The Wall Street Journal - Sotomayor's Defense on 'Wise Latina' Comment Takes Shape
NOTE: New Email opntalk@gmail.com
Hey folks,
Are you buying? They REALLY want this idiot confirmed. They are attempting to spin her Racist comment and they are using her "record" to back up their allegations that she is not a Racist. There is a BIG problem with that though.According to The Wall Street Journal - Sotomayor's Defense on 'Wise Latina' Comment Takes Shape By NAFTALI BENDAVID
WASHINGTON -- When Judge Sonia Sotomayor faces the Senate Judiciary Committee next week, she will finally get to explain before the cameras her comment that a "wise Latina" can often reach a better conclusion than a white man. That response could help determine whether her confirmation is smooth or rocky.
Despite the furor surrounding the remark -- which she made at a law school in 2001, among other occasions -- Judge Sotomayor hasn't been able to address it publicly since her nomination, because nominees typically don't speak out before their hearings.
She could if she wanted to. But she is waiting for the spin.
However, she did discuss it privately when she made the rounds of senators following her nomination. Based on those discussions, she is likely to say that her judicial record shows no hint of the bias or activism that critics see in the remark. She also is expected to defend the importance of diversity on the bench, while perhaps offering a nod to critics by calling her choice of words imperfect.
One BIG example is the Firefighter case that just got overturned.
"I asked her that question...and she was very direct," said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.). "She just said, '[Latina identity] is something that informs my experience, but I'm always going to look to judicial precedent, I'm always going to follow the rule of law.'"
Problem, she has been OVERTURNED 65 percent of the time. Apparently she is on the WRONG side of the "rule of law." 65 percent of the time.
Manuel Miranda, a former aide to Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee who is working against Judge Sotomayor's confirmation, said that "the whole race-bias issue" suggested by the remark will probably be the liveliest part of the hearing. "I think that's explosive, I think that's worthwhile, I think that's entertaining," Mr. Miranda said. "Then it becomes pretty boring."
Judge Sotomayor made the now-famous comment in a speech at the University of California, Berkeley, in which she noted that even great judges like Oliver Wendell Holmes had voted to uphold racial and sex discrimination.
"I would hope that a wise Latina woman, with the richness of her experiences, would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life," she said.
The White House initially argued that, as spokesman Robert Gibbs put it, "She'd say her word choice in 2001 was poor." But it soon emerged that Judge Sotomayor had used similar language on several other occasions.
Because she is a RACIST!
Sen. Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.), a strong supporter of Judge Sotomayor, said she pointed out to him that several sentences later in the same speech, she observed that many white men had issued great opinions, including Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 case outlawing segregation in public schools.
{Laughing} So because she gave "Some White Men" a prop, she is not Racist?
Mr. Schumer made the argument that is likely to be Judge Sotomayor's chief response -- that her 17-year judicial record, including hundreds of rulings, shows no evidence of unfairness or tilting the scales in favor of minority groups, whatever she may have said in speeches.
"Paraphrasing Joe Friday, 'Just look at the record, folks,'" Mr. Schumer said.
Cases that clearly show Racist Bias and 65 percent turnover rate. OK. Let's look at that.
But many Republicans consider the comment biased on its face. Judge Sotomayor has told Republican senators her wording was "inadvertent" and "inartful," but they will press her hard at the hearing for a persuasive disavowal.
"I do think that based on her speeches and writings, that it will be essential that she convincingly assert that she will be impartial," said Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), the Judiciary Committee's top Republican.
Democrats are certain to argue, if Judge Sotomayor doesn't, that conservative Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito cited their Italian-American backgrounds during their own confirmation hearings, to suggest their sensitivity to discrimination and sympathy for immigrants.
"Just based on her record, she is clearly not, as her opponents are saying, an activist," Ms. Gillibrand said. "She is someone who follows precedent, follows the rule of law and is very judicial in temperament."
But that really is NOT what her record shows folks. She is who and what she is. She is NOT the right person for the job. No matter how much they try to spin it.
Peter
Sources:
The Wall Street Journal - Sotomayor's Defense on 'Wise Latina' Comment Takes Shape
NOTE: New Email opntalk@gmail.com
2 comments:
It's pretty hard to take your piece seriously when you start out calling a SC nominee an "idiot." You are also misrepresenting her 65% turnover rate. Her turnover rate, and it's specifics, is not unusual for any judge, and you also suggest it is related to bias. News flash: they are all human. Scalia is not influenced by his Catholicism? Please. Sotomayor will be our next SC--get used to it.
Hey Anonymous,
Welcome or Welcome Back to the OPNTalk Blog. Since you were not kind enough to leave a name to differentiate you from any other Anonymous, I do not know.
"It's pretty hard to take your piece seriously when you start out calling a SC nominee an "idiot.""
Sorry, but anyone that allows there Racist views to dictate there decisions contrary to the Rule of Law, and truly believe as she stated before, that Judges Legislation from the bench, is an Idiot. Sorry.
"You are also misrepresenting her 65% turnover rate. Her turnover rate, and it's specifics, is not unusual for any judge,"
Care to point out any other of the SC Justice with a similar record?
"and you also suggest it is related to bias. News flash: they are all human."
Yes, this is why only the best should be appointed to the highest court. She has way to much baggage. She may be more human than human. {Smile}
"Scalia is not influenced by his Catholicism? Please."
Speculation. Any proof of this?
"Sotomayor will be our next SC--get used to it."
Of course she will. The Kooks want her. The President appointed her to further his agendas, and the like minded Loons in the Senate have unlimited power right now. If she is not confirmed, I will be more surprised than you.
Peter
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