As expected, Sonia “Wise Latina” Sotomayor was confirmed yesterday via a 68-31 vote that was split largely along party lines.
I have previously mentioned several issues I see with this nominee; after the confirmation hearings (which I covered live on Twitter), I am even more concerned with her as a Supreme Court Justice. She is a racist, as I stated, and also seems to hold little respect for the Constitution or for explaining her positions. She makes arbitrary rulings and then fails to adequately explain WHY she made the ruling (example, her attack on the 2nd Amendment was obscenely short). I think she is going to be a disaster on the courts; she’ll be a bully to her fellow justices and a menace to lawyers trying to argue cases in front of her. I’ll make this promise to you all: I will be keeping my eye on her. I have a distinct feeling we have not heard the last from this “terror on the bench.”
Obama got what he wanted, though: he’s placed his first radical liberal activist on the SCOTUS.
Now, since there’s nothing more to do with Sotomayor but watch her, we need to focus on the Republicans who voted for her. It’s one thing to vote for a president’s SCOTUS pick if it’s a moderate like Anthony Kennedy…but for so-called “conservatives” to cast a vote for Obama’s sickening leftist pick is basically asking to be thrown out of office. Obviously, they are out of line for doing so and deserve to lose their seats…but interestingly enough, most already are.
Here are the nine and my thoughts/analysis on why they did what they did:
Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.)
Hypocrite and wuss. He hammered her over and over at the hearings, brought up a lot of great points as to why she should NOT be confirmed, and then said it was a “historic moment” and he was not concerned over political ramifications while promptly helping vote her in. Sen. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.)
He’s not up for re-election until 2014. Sen. Christopher Bond (Mo.)
Not running in 2010, retiring. Sen. Susan Collins (Maine)
Democratic sympathizer. Along with Specter and Collins, backstabbed America and voted for porkulus in February. Sen. Olympia Snowe (Maine)
See Collins, Susan. Sen. Richard Lugar (Ind.)
Another Democratic sympathizer. Has a good relationship with Obama, was honorary co-chairman of inauguration. Sen. Mel Martinez (Fla.) Announced retirement, but not an unexpected vote. Sen. Judd Gregg (N.H.)
Shocked on this one and I absolutely cannot explain it. Sen. George Voinovich (Ohio)
Not running in 2010, retiring.
So overall, it looked mostly like GOP Senators wanting to end up “on the right side of history” by not opposing the first Hispanic SCOTUS Justice (even though race “doesn’t matter,” of course) and not caring because they were retiring (or not up for re-election for many years).
The only votes that really surprise me are Gregg and Graham (and BEFORE the hearings, I would have said Graham was a shoe-in to vote for her, but what I can’t fathom now is that he voted for her after mounting one of the sternest assaults AGAINST her).
And now, those who stood firm and voted against this radical:
Sen. Jeff Sessions (Ala.)
Sen. Orrin Hatch (Utah)
Sen. Charles Grassley (Iowa)
Sen. Jon Kyl (Ariz.)
Sen. John Cornyn (Texas)
Sen. Tom Coburn (Okla.)
Sen. John Barrasso (Wyo.)
Sen. Robert Bennett (Utah)
Sen. Sam Brownback (Kan.)
Sen. Richard Burr (N.C.)
Sen. Jim Bunning (Ky.)
Sen. Saxby Chambliss (Ga.)
Sen. Thad Cochran (Miss.)
Sen. Bob Corker (Tenn.)
Sen. Mike Crapo (Idaho)
Sen. Jim DeMint (S.C.)
Sen. John Ensign (Nev.)
Sen. Mike Enzi (Wyo.)
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (Tex.)
Sen. James Inhofe (Okla.)
Sen. Johnny Isakson (Ga.)
Sen. Mike Johanns (Neb.)
Sen. John McCain (Ariz.)
Sen. Mitch McConnell (Ky.)
Sen. James Risch (Idaho)
Sen. Pat Roberts (Kan.)
Sen. Richard Shelby (Ala.)
Sen. John Thune (S.D.)
Sen. David Vitter (La.)
Sen. Roger Wicker (Miss.)
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska)
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a group of white firefighters in Connecticut were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision endorsed by high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.
The 5-4 ruling poses a potential complication to Sotomayor’s nomination, with confirmation hearings set to start in July. Already, supporters and critics of Sotomayor are seizing on the decision in an effort to defend their stance.
In the high-profile, controversial case, white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., argued they were discriminated against when the city tossed out the results of a promotion exam because too few minorities scored high enough on it.
Justice Anthony Kennedy authored the opinion in favor of Frank Ricci and his fellow firefighters who sued the city of New Haven.
“The city’s action in discarding the tests violated (federal law),” the Supreme Court majority wrote Monday, adding that the city’s “race-based rejection of the test results” could not be justified.
This is an amazing stand for civil rights. Her insane argument that you can’t discriminate against white people is just another abhorrent example of her overt racism. I don’t know if ever in the history of the Supreme Court has a sitting set of justices reversed the ruling of a nominee who is slated for confirmation hearings in a couple weeks.
Sotomayor is a racist; there’s no tap dancing around that fact. She believes, as she has stated numerous times, that a “wise latina” would always make better decisions than a “white male.”
I am sick of this crap where people say you can’t be racist if it’s against white people. I’m not a person to run around crying and screaming for special treatment, but this is ridiculous. We’ve been under attack for years by the State, as racial quotas, affirmative action and other ridiculous racial inequality institutions have reinforced the belief that racism is only racism if it is against a minority.
The last thing we need is a Supreme Court justice who believes she’s better than everyone else simply because she’s Puerto Rican. The racism and the race favoritism is just the icing on the cake, of course…the main problem with her is her judicial activism and her insane case decisions.
As Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, continues meeting senators who will be voting on her confirmation, a new Quinnipiac Poll shows a wide majority of Americans dissenting from one of her most talked-about decisions by 3-to-1.
Of more than 3,000 people surveyed, 71% said they disagreed with Sotomayor’s vote in favor of tossing out the results of a New Haven, Conn., firefighter-promotion test because no blacks or Hispanics qualified.
The decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, where Sotomayor is currently a judge, is now under review by the U.S. Supreme Court.
I’m not surprised. The general public is not racist like Sotomayor is. People, in general, do not believe in holding people of different ethnicities to different standards. Denying promotions to white firefighters because black firefighters could not make the cut is ridiculous. I hope the Supreme Court slaps her down; it would be a nasty lump of egg on Obama’s face for the SCOTUS to overturn the decision of a nominee (which I don’t think has ever happened before).
The Obama Administration’s shortlist to replace retiring Justice David Souter is a who’s-who list of radicals and liberal activists. None are worse, however, than Circuit Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
What’s wrong with her? On top of being a radical leftist, she absolutely exemplifies everything that is wrong with judges in today’s society. Instead of being content to perform the Constitutional job of interpreting the law in the context of, well, the Constitution, Sotomayor believes that the court should create policy. Oh yeah. It’s like that.
The court is where policy is made? Oh really? Could have fooled me. Here I was, thinking that the Founders created a country with three different branches of the Federal government that each serve a distinct function. In recent years, of course, these bodies have been merging together into one ugly conglomeration of overly powerful Federal government.
Circuit Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor would face a difficult time getting through the Senate if nominated to the Supreme Court, top Judiciary Committee Sen. Orrin Hatch (Utah) warned Thursday.
Hatch said that statements made by Sotomayor about judges making policy was a cause for concern that could hold up a potential nomination by President Obama.
“She would have, I think, a more difficult time if she was nominated because of statements like that and, of course, she has a whole raft of opinions that I think would have to be scrutinized very carefully,” Hatch said during an appearance on Fox News.
The comments are a warning shot against a nominee who, conventional wisdom has suggested, is a frontrunner to fill the vacancy left by retiring Justice David Souter.
Basically, Obama would pick her for two reasons: first, he wants to continue his pandering to the Hispanic demographic by selecting her. The second, of course, is the more obvious, which is just the simple fact that he wants to slide the court even further left. Remember what he had to say about his pick for SCOTUS?
We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. And that’s the criteria by which I’m going to be selecting my judges.
The heart? The empathy? Are you kidding me? This isn’t a damn counseling session. This is the Supreme Court of the United States America. This is not a body of “empathy” or “heart.” This is a body of law, of order and of Constitutionality. Picking a judge based on these insane “qualifications” is stupid and naive, which really is par for the course with this administration.
Sotomayor thinks it’s funny that people get upset about judges legislating from the bench. I don’t think it’s so funny. The judicial branch was created to balance the other two, not work hand-in-hand with them to pass liberal legislation. They are supposed to interpret issues in the context of the Constitution, not create new laws. As Mark Levin is fond of saying, the Supreme Court has had a significant hand in destroying the fabric of America with judicial activism. Judges are not supposed to legislate, but it makes it much easier to further the agenda of socialism if you have justices who are willing to do just that.
