Obama names supreme judge

Any objections to yet another Catholic on the court?

A USSC justice shoud just be a good ANALYST of the Constitution
and of statutes proceeding therefrom. She shoud filter out her own feelings
from her analysis. Being appointed to the Court is not a license
to do whatever u want with the nation, or with the rights of its citizens.





David

OmSigDAVID wrote:

A USSC justice shoud just be a good ANALYST of the Constitution
and of statutes proceeding therefrom. She shoud filter out her own feelings
from her analysis. Being appointed to the Court is not a license
to do whatever u want with the nation, or with the rights of its citizens.





David

I'm curious David, where in the constitution is the word "citizen"?

yes of course I owe you for the value of your legal advice,
I'm just not sure how to make uot a check for nil.

So far, my only qualm with Sotomayor is that now the NPR hosts have yet another reason to break into a fake Hispanic accent when they say her name. It is sooooooo annoying.

Any objections to yet another Catholic on the court?

Facts combined with logic have a funny way of short circuiting Obamabots.

I love how Obamabots rush in to show their support for a racist, it's all so very whimsical.

shittohead = Obamabot

But amidst the hoopla, now is a good time to remember another lawyer who, had he been held merely to the same standards of Sotomayor, may well have been the first Hispanic justice: Miguel Estrada.

In 2001, President George W. Bush nominated Estrada to the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Yet Estrada’s nomination unleashed a furious Democratic opposition. A staffer to Sen. Dick Durban, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, noted that liberal interest groups saw Estrada as “dangerous”, because he was “Latino and the White House seems to be grooming him for a Supreme Court appointment.” The memo stressed that these groups wanted to “hold Estrada off as long as possible.”

Democrats, many of whom now praise the nomination of Sotomayor, mobilized to deny Estrada even the courtesy of a Senate vote. While one may justify the use of such extreme tactics for a Supreme Court nomination, the Democratic filibuster to avoid voting on his nomination was the first ever used against the nomination of a judge to a circuit court. Despite the efforts of Republicans to force a Senate vote, after seven cloture votes (a Senate process designed to bring debate to an end) and twenty-eight months, Estrada gracefully requested that the president withdraw his nomination. Gleefully, Sen. Kennedy claimed the defeat of Estrada as “a victory for the Constitution” while Democratic Sen. Zell Miller sadly noted that Estrada had “become the latest victim of Washington’s partisan, obstructionist politics.”

While I dont know enough about Obama's pick to comment, I do know that she is NOT the first hispanic to be nominated.

But the last Hispanic nominee was blocked, protested, and stopped by the dems because he was Hispanic.

http://www.newmajority.com/ShowScroll.aspx?ID=273a272f-fbf2-409e-b786-b3f15531ad55

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But amidst the hoopla, now is a good time to remember another lawyer who, had he been held merely to the same standards of Sotomayor, may well have been the first Hispanic justice: Miguel Estrada.

In 2001, President George W. Bush nominated Estrada to the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Yet Estrada’s nomination unleashed a furious Democratic opposition. A staffer to Sen. Dick Durban, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, noted that liberal interest groups saw Estrada as “dangerous”, because he was “Latino and the White House seems to be grooming him for a Supreme Court appointment.” The memo stressed that these groups wanted to “hold Estrada off as long as possible.”

Democrats, many of whom now praise the nomination of Sotomayor, mobilized to deny Estrada even the courtesy of a Senate vote. While one may justify the use of such extreme tactics for a Supreme Court nomination, the Democratic filibuster to avoid voting on his nomination was the first ever used against the nomination of a judge to a circuit court. Despite the efforts of Republicans to force a Senate vote, after seven cloture votes (a Senate process designed to bring debate to an end) and twenty-eight months, Estrada gracefully requested that the president withdraw his nomination. Gleefully, Sen. Kennedy claimed the defeat of Estrada as “a victory for the Constitution” while Democratic Sen. Zell Miller sadly noted that Estrada had “become the latest victim of Washington’s partisan, obstructionist politics.”

I'm sure you all remember him,especially since so many of you opposed him.
So I have to ask, what makes this nominee more qualified?
Is she "more hispanic" then Estrada?