sotomayor

    Sessions-led GOP takes historic stand against Sotomayor

    By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  August 6th at 05:28 PM  | 

    Obama’s first Supreme Court Justice confirmed with support of less than 25% of Republican senators The discredited “Hatch” strategy is dead as its founder, Orrin Hatch (R-UT) followed his Ranking Member replacement on the Judiciary Committee, Jeff Sessions (R-AL), pictured, in voting against Sonia Sotomayor despite the “consequences” of the election of a Democratic Party president. Gone are the days when Hatch boasted of super-majority | Read More »

    Sotomayor as Toto-deny-or [updated]

    By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  July 15th at 09:31 AM  | 

    Supreme Court nominee flees from President Obama’s “empathy” standard and her own record Update – Part three is here What if John Roberts had declared in his nomination hearing for Chief Justice of the United States that rather than being an umpire-like judge calling balls and strikes, he intended pitch? Does anyone believe that President George W. Bush wouldn’t have immediately withdrawn the apostate before | Read More »

    A logical exercise on the issue of racism

    By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 1st at 04:14 PM  | 

    It comes as a shock to many black friends of mine when I reveal to them that for at least 25 years, possibly the worst social taboo among whites is to be labeled a racist. To be considered a racist has severe economic, social, personal and political consequences for white folks. As a consequence, it is hard to find whites that utter racist epithets in | Read More »

    Non-Latina justice is no justice at all [updated]

    By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  May 31st at 11:54 AM  | 

    A diabetic with learning disabilities, raised by a single mother in a South Bronx neighborhood, rose to the top of elite Ivy League universities. Lawyer Sotomayor was then given the power to prosecute criminal defendants and, for the past 17 years has wielded the gavel of a trial court judge before judging trial court judges from the second highest court in the land; apparently, if | Read More »