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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Lisa on August 06, 2009, 02:41:28 PM
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This is terrible news!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_sotomayor_senate
WASHINGTON – The Senate confirmed Sonia Sotomayor Thursday as the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court. The vote was 68-31 for Sotomayor, President Barack Obama's first high court nominee. She becomes the 111th justice and just the third woman to serve.
Democrats praised the 55-year-old Sotomayor as a mainstream moderate. But most Republicans voted against her, saying she'd bring personal bias and a liberal agenda to the bench.
Senators took the rare step of assembling at their desks on the Senate floor for the historic occasion, rising from their seats to cast their votes.
She replaces retiring Justice David Souter, a liberal named by a Republican president, and she is not expected to alter the court's ideological split.
Still, Republicans and Democrats were deeply at odds over confirming Sotomayor, and the battle over her nomination highlighted profound philosophical disagreements that will shape future battles over the court's makeup as Obama looks to another likely vacancy — perhaps more than one_ while he's in the White House.
The GOP decried Obama's call for "empathy" in a justice, painting Sotomayor as the embodiment of an inappropriate standard that would let a judge bring her personal whims and prejudices to the bench.
Her writings and speeches "reflect a belief not just that impartiality is not possible, but that it's not even worth the effort," said Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the minority leader. "In Judge Sotomayor's court, groups that didn't make the cut of preferred groups often found that they ended up on the short end of the empathy standard."
Democrats, for their part, hailed the vote as a breakthrough achievement for the country, on par with enactment of civil rights laws. They warned Republicans they risked a backlash from Hispanic voters in the short term and an enduring black mark on their party in history books by opposing Sotomayor's confirmation.
"History awaits, and so does an anxious Hispanic community in this country," said Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey, the Senate's lone Hispanic Democrat and the head of his party's campaign arm, just minutes before the vote. "When she places her hand on the Bible and takes the oath of office, the new portrait of the justices of the Supreme Court will clearly reflect who we are as a nation, what we stand for as a fair, just and hopeful people."
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>:( :'( >:(
I am actually surprised that 31 Republicans voted against her, though.
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I agree, Lisa. This is indeed terrible news. Having said that, it was expected news.
Basically, Sonia Sotomayor is a non Muslim version of Barack Hussein Obama.
The worst aspect of this situation is that BHO will likely have the opportunity to nominate more Supreme Court judges. If the worst happens with Obama remaining in the White House beyond January, 2013, most of the Supreme Court could easily be Obama nominees.
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Very bad news for a lot of things, between abortion and gun laws. FOR STARTERS
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Im angry and almost spechless that Sotomayor yemach shemo vezichro got the nomination.
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Forget about Sotomayor! Just look at the experts on CNN and other channel to see what decay US is in! Yeah, don't forget Al Frankel!
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I agree, Lisa. This is indeed terrible news. Having said that, it was expected news.
Basically, Sonia Sotomayor is a non Muslim version of Barack Hussein Obama.
The worst aspect of this situation is that BHO will likely have the opportunity to nominate more Supreme Court judges. If the worst happens with Obama remaining in the White House beyond January, 2013, most of the Supreme Court could easily be Obama nominees.
eb22 says EXACTLY my sentiments!
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Well, obama got his way again. There is no end to this SOB !
Shalom - Dox
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As bad as this is, it is not the absolute end of the world. Souter was every bit as bad.
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>:( :'( >:(
I am actually surprised that 31 Republicans voted against her, though.
Do you hate it that they speak of all Hispanics in general as if all Hispanics support her? I don't think that's right for them to paint all Hispanics with such a broad brush. Many that I have known have been pro-life, and socially conservative in other ways.
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Well, obama got his way again. There is no end to this SOB !
Shalom - Dox
They said that about Hitler, too, you know?
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>:( :'( >:(
I am actually surprised that 31 Republicans voted against her, though.
Do you hate it that they speak of all Hispanics in general as if all Hispanics support her? I don't think that's right for them to paint all Hispanics with such a broad brush. Many that I have known have been pro-life, and socially conservative in other ways.
Also a lot of Hispanics are against illegal immigration as well.
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Do you hate it that they speak of all Hispanics in general as if all Hispanics support her? I don't think that's right for them to paint all Hispanics with such a broad brush. Many that I have known have been pro-life, and socially conservative in other ways.
It doesn't affect me. Hispanics are not nearly as lockstep as negroes (sand or non-sand) are.
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Do you hate it that they speak of all Hispanics in general as if all Hispanics support her? I don't think that's right for them to paint all Hispanics with such a broad brush. Many that I have known have been pro-life, and socially conservative in other ways.
It doesn't affect me. Hispanics are not nearly as lockstep as negroes (sand or non-sand) are.
All types of human beings are much smarter on average than negroes.
I guess I just found it a little offensive that they would speak as if it were some great achievement for Hispanics when not all of them feel that way.
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Eh, it is but I really couldn't care less. I just roll my eyes at everything mainstream these days.
Actually I feel bad for those 2% of blacks that oppose Obama. They get no love or encouragement whatsoever, and if they opened their mouths, they'd probably get dismembered by their fellow apes. (I saw several blacks at the Sarah Palin rally in Carson, CA last October.)
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>:( :'( >:(
I am actually surprised that 31 Republicans voted against her, though.
Do you hate it that they speak of all Hispanics in general as if all Hispanics support her? I don't think that's right for them to paint all Hispanics with such a broad brush. Many that I have known have been pro-life, and socially conservative in other ways.
In a way they were correct in using the broad brush. I was surprised to see that even some Hispanics I know who are very conservative on the issues backed this judge 100% just because she had an Hispanic background. The seat is an even trade liberal for liberal so I am not that concerned over it however the fact that they back her on race and not her policies says a great deal.
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Well, obama got his way again. There is no end to this SOB !
Shalom - Dox
Elizabeth,
I never had any doubt that our inept President would "get his way".
That's what his entire agenda is about.
"GETTING HIS WAY"
The will of the people does not fit in with his ideas for the future of the U.S.A..
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Well, obama got his way again. There is no end to this SOB !
Shalom - Dox
Elizabeth,
I never had any doubt that our inept President would "get his way".
That's what his entire agenda is about.
"GETTING HIS WAY"
The will of the people does not fit in with his ideas for the future of the U.S.A..
I'll say!! Even the worst presidents we had in the past never set up a White House call in center and website to have Americans RAT OUT their neighbors when they speak out against administration policy. This animal in the oval office is a dictator in the making. He is feathering his nest as we speak for a very long stay.
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Sotomayor should be wrapped in a burka and airmailed to Dubai pronto.
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Eh, it is but I really couldn't care less. I just roll my eyes at everything mainstream these days.
Actually I feel bad for those 2% of blacks that oppose Obama. They get no love or encouragement whatsoever, and if they opened their mouths, they'd probably get dismembered by their fellow apes. (I saw several blacks at the Sarah Palin rally in Carson, CA last October.)
Yeah, I agree, they have it especially rough.
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she doesn't belong in the new position she has just got.
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Hey whitey we are screwed