If nothing else, we have to make sure that everyone knows exactly the kind of racist, legislating, incompetent jurists that Obama will continue to nominate.

She said ‘wise Latina woman.’ She’s got the second two covered.

What bothers me is they think she’ll be confirmed by diktat. I hope the GOP Senators on the judiciary committee aren’t the roll-over republican variety. We don’t want her up there for even a fruit fly’s lifetime.

the Judiciary Committee hearings play out. This will tell us much more about our own folks than about the nominee, or the nominator, which we’ve already decided. It could become a teachable moment if the Republicans can summon up some spine in the face of what seems an inevitable confirmation. Already some juicy baggage has been brought to light, and if our Senators can be shrewd in their questioning, she won’t be allowed to wiggle out of her past declarations and decisions. This can be accomplished in a dignified manner on our part, even though the MSM will throw everything including the kitchen sink out of the race-card kitchen at us. It will truly be a spine-testing episode, and if the Republicans do indeed ‘roll over’, well, at least we’ll have it all on tape, for future reference.

After all, he doesn’t care much for the Constitution, either. He had no executive experience and very, very little legislative experience. He has associatons with shady characters like Ayers and Wright. Yet despite all this, he was STILL elected president.

Because he made people FEEL GOOD.
Because he was HISTORIC.
It worked for him and it will work for her, too.

Fears of being called “RACIST!” kept our Republican lawmakers from doing anything about Freddit and Fannie a few years back and look where that got us. They’ve gotten very good at cowering at the very warning of the race card being played so I’m sure she’ll sail right through confirmation.

to Obama in the last election. Continue this line of thinking about at our own peril.

and we’re suppose to ‘tread lightly’?…I can feel my morale getting Sucked out of my body….

First sentence of first headline when I woke up..”The Republican Party risks further alienation from Hispanics by challenging the nomination of Sonia Sotomayer”….Bull hockey!

Republican leadership has rolled over already……they are toothless eunuchs….. F them

All Obama has to do is throw out a ‘Hispanic’ and our leaders fold like lawn Chairs?

I’m getting burned out from all this Stupidity…

You wrote:

“In 5 years as a District Judge and 11 years as a judge on the Second Circuit, she’s had 7 decisions that were reviewed by the Supreme Court. 6 were overturned. The 7th was affirmed, but the court specifically rejected (unanimously) her reasoning.”

From what I’ve been able to discover in the media, she’s written the opinions for roughly 380 cases. Of those, only 7 were accepted for review by the SCOTUS. The other 98% of her opinions were either not appealed to SCOTUS at all (in our litigious society, I’m thinking that an opinion would have to be pretty solid for the losing side to just give up on appeal) or denied a hearing by the SCOTUS (thus summarily upholding the opinion in question).

Even the current case before the SCOTUS, Ricci v. DiStefano, is there because different circuits have ruled differently. Sotomayor’s opinion in that case hewed to existing Circuit-level precedent, which is exactly what they’re supposed to do. It’s before SCOTUS because of the conflicting interpretations in different Circuits; that’s how it’s supposed to work.

When you toss in the fact that (in an average term) the SCOTUS reverses roughly 75% of the decisions of which they hear an appeal, I don’t think that this is a convincing line of argument. I don’t think it can be argued that a 98% upheld/unappealed rate is a bad thing.

“Each day on the bench I learn something new about the judicial process and about being a professional Latina woman in a world that sometimes looks at me with suspicion. I am reminded each day that I render decisions that affect people concretely and that I owe them constant and complete vigilance in checking my assumptions, presumptions and perspectives and ensuring that to the extent that my limited abilities and capabilities permit me, that I reevaluate them and change as circumstances and cases before me requires. I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate.”

That sounds entirely reasonable to me, and puts her previous statements (in the same lecture) in quite the different context.

Seriously, give the entire lecture a serious read.

Thomas Jefferson quote. it was great.

Many bigots are good judges as they repress it in their legal evaluations. “Incompetence” and “intelligence” are nebulous concepts that we shouldn’t touch. Yes, it appears that she often is incompetent in couching her raw unconstitutional opinions in cover language, but what matters most is her decisions, and who wins before her is driven by politics, not law. That is what matters and is what we should emphasize.

Her bigoted statements will speak volumes for themselves and very well could sink her.

according to Bagdad Bob Gibbs,

“White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday that Obama was “very comfortable with her interpretation of the Constitution being similar to that of his.”

We’ve gotten a pretty good look at his interpretation. Scary.

did I just put out some bait or what, how many here actually clicked on the comment just to see where I was going with this. Anytime you need to bring up your heritage tells me you never fully have come to grips with your status as an American. You do not hear me every having to bring up the fact that I am a redheaded-American, and the whole discrimination I have experienced in my life. I am being serious, people treat red heads with utter contempt and what is worse my fellow Americans think I am being paranoid. Oh really, I thought racism only depends on the person who is subjected to it and not proof that the other person was in fact being racist.