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July 14, 2009
Sotomayor Hearing Thread. [JHoward]
CSPAN link. As of 10:25am Eastern, Jeff Sessions is just not letting up as Sotomayor (unsuccessfully, I think) tries to walk back past statements and deeds. In among a definite tinge of condescension and the revisions are, as Malkin notes, lots of wise Latina ritual reassurances. This is theater. 10:30 and Sessions still on this like a dog on a bone… 131 Comments ::: Post a comment »RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI: http://proteinwisdom.com/wp-trackback.php?p=15139 Leave a commentIf you want to leave a feedback to this post or to some other user´s comment, simply fill out the form below. |
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Comment by bigbooner on 7/14 @ 9:04 am #
On the plus side, when she is confirmed we will have two really hot babes on the court.
Comment by SBP on 7/14 @ 9:23 am #
You’re a sick puppy, bigbooner.
Who’s the other one? Please don’t say Ginsburg.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 7/14 @ 9:23 am #
By base do you mean the 80 or more percent of people that think the Ricci case was a freakin travesty?
Comment by SBP on 7/14 @ 9:23 am #
Also 100% of the current Justices, Mr. Pink.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 7/14 @ 9:26 am #
Wouldn’t that make Cleo the “wingnut” in this instance SBP?
Comment by bigbooner on 7/14 @ 9:30 am #
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Comment by SBP on 7/14 @ 9:23 am #
You’re a sick puppy, bigbooner.
Who’s the other one? Please don’t say Ginsburg.
Ginsberg’s a woman?
Comment by DarthRove on 7/14 @ 9:35 am #
I’m guessing ‘cleo is of the “If they’s agin’ it, I’m FER it!!!” school of thought.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 7/14 @ 9:41 am #
“Comment by Semanticleo on 7/14 @ 9:20 am #
‘Wise Latina’ aside, you have zilch on disqualifying this Judge, Howie.”
Other than the fact that she’s a racist, I guess.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 7/14 @ 9:49 am #
Those firefighters in the Ricci case sure recieved alot of empathy from her. Didn’t she pretty much just say “I empathize that you will not recieve your promotions now but I have more empathy toward the races other than yours so your screwed. Oh yeah and I will decide this by fiat and not even adress any of the Constitutional issues that are raised by this case. Have a nice trip home.” How anyone can defend that shit is beyond me.
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 7/14 @ 10:08 am #
you have zilch on disqualifying this Judge, Howie
Yeah, ’cause “having something” is how judges get disqualified from the Supreme Court.
Are you really this stupid?
Comment by gregorbo on 7/14 @ 10:12 am #
Horked from Powerline this morning. In answer to Lahey’s opening remarks regarding Sotomayer’s “wise latina” thing, she said:
“What — the words that I use, I used agreeing with the sentiment that Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was attempting to convey. I understood that sentiment to be what I just spoke about, which is that both men and women were equally capable of being wise and fair judges.”
What she actually said in the speech in which she made the point about her own gender/race-based superiority:
“Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, a possibility I abhor less or discount less than my colleague Judge Cedarbaum, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. Justice O’Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases. I am not so sure Justice O’Connor is the author of that line since Professor Resnik attributes that line to Supreme Court Justice Coyle. I am also not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, as Professor Martha Minnow has noted, there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”
Disqualifying? Well, if you think lying to congress is disqualifying–why, yes. Disengenius? Dishonest? Absolutely.
Comment by B Moe on 7/14 @ 10:14 am #
My lack of a law degree aside, I think I would make a pretty bitching Justice, ‘Cleo.
Comment by alppuccino on 7/14 @ 10:15 am #
Isn’t being a good liar a bonus for a scotus?
Comment by B Moe on 7/14 @ 10:20 am #
That is the problem, al, she isn’t a good liar, she is just a liar.
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/14 @ 10:23 am #
Wow, judge Sotomayors “walkback” of her remarks strain credulity…
I wonder if she took some specialized course to go from a legal realist to a strict constructionist in just a short matter of weeks? Kinda like a Jenny Craig program for ideology…
Or, you know, do you think she’s just playing one on TV?
Nah, not an appointee of the most ethical administration-EVAH!
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 7/14 @ 10:37 am #
Getting through SC nominating sessions is easy: Say nothing. It’s all a great big game of “gotcha”. For which I blame Ted Kennedy.
Comment by sdferr on 7/14 @ 10:53 am #
Orrin Hatch asked Sotomayor whether the 2nd amendment wasn’t a fundamental right. S. replied with the odd formulation of fundamental — odd at least to non-lawyer’s ears — that the question of the 2nd amnd’t as fundamental hinged on an explicit incorporation of the 2nd amdn’t under the 14th amdn’t by the Supreme Court over against the States. That’s a nice metaphor of a broken politics, it seems. We mustn’t think beyond the rules of the court now, must we?
Comment by Pablo on 7/14 @ 10:54 am #
What sad, ‘cleo, is that you’re “qualified” to sit on SCOTUS. Fortunately, even Baracky isn’t that stupid.
Comment by Pablo on 7/14 @ 10:56 am #
Did you catch in Leahy’s remarks where he called it ridiculous to criticize the “wise Latina” comment and then deliberately misquoted it?
Comment by Rick on 7/14 @ 11:24 am #
I don’t see any gibberish post from semanticleo, but everyone else seems to. How’d I get so lucky?
Cordially…
Comment by Rick on 7/14 @ 11:31 am #
I love racism as long as it is directed against the correct people.
Comment by David R. Block on 7/14 @ 11:32 am #
Rick, we must be doing something right.
Comment by Rick on 7/14 @ 11:39 am #
I will keep calling you racist as loud as we can for opposing this SC nominee because this is all about sowing up the Hispanic vote. If I and people like me throw around the racism charge enough and portray this nomination as all about her race, whether true or not, then maybe we can lock up the Hispanic vote like we have the AA vote by convincing them that Republicans are all racists. Obama could nominate a retarded transgendered Eskimo and if it would help win Alaska in an election I would wholeheartedly support it.
Cordially…
Comment by gregorbo on 7/14 @ 11:43 am #
Hey! He could nominate Trig Palin!
Comment by geoffb on 7/14 @ 11:44 am #
It is fundamental that you must never accurately quote someone on the left. That is always an “attack”. Leahy was simply giving the “wise Latina” and her words a warm and comforting massage.
Comment by Rick on 7/14 @ 12:19 pm #
Uh-oh. Sock puppet alert. I denounce myse…rather, semanticleo.
Cordially…
Comment by Eben on 7/14 @ 12:21 pm #
It takes about 15 seconds of watching her speak to come to the realization that she’s a mental midget and that when she writes her first opinion from the bench it will sound like children’s literature compared to Roberts or Scalia.
Her picture should be next to the Affirmative Action entry in Wiki.
Comment by syn on 7/14 @ 12:31 pm #
In early 2005 I attended a pro-troop rally in Washington DC, Sen Jeff Sessions showed up to show support; in my book he is a worthy human being.
Not many Americans showed up though, disappointing as that was it was great for those who did attend.
Fast forward to 2009 where Americans are NOW showing up because it’s all about their own personal wallets which are now being effected.
For the last seven fucking years most Americans would not show up to defend out troops who made the ultimate sacrifice so good thing there are the HEH Tea Parties, FINALLY Insta-Americans got off their lazy, apathetic, shiny-happy asses for a change.
Comment by Curmudgeon on 7/14 @ 1:00 pm #
Jeff Sessions for President.
Comment by sdferr on 7/14 @ 1:17 pm #
Randy Barnett (h/t Insty):
Comment by Salt Lick on 7/14 @ 1:33 pm #
…a nominee’s approach to the constitutional protection of liberty.
All your privileges, immunities, and rights are mine.
Comment by maggie katzen on 7/14 @ 1:44 pm #
“which, who cares? cause once I’m on the bench I can make them up as I go along.”
Comment by Joe on 7/14 @ 2:04 pm #
I am glad Jeff is questioning Sotomayor. I hope he does a good job. I hope all GOP senators vote no…but elections matter. So we can expect her to get confirmed…but that’s what happens when Dems get control of the White House and the Senate.
Comment by Barrack Milhouse Obama on 7/14 @ 2:17 pm #
You know the best thing about the Sotomayor hearings? It keeps anybody from noticing this!
Atta girl, Sonya!
Comment by Joe on 7/14 @ 2:23 pm #
Miquel Estrata, wise jurist. Not wise Latino jurist. Mention that on the record Jeff to your Dem colleges.
Comment by KingShamus on 7/14 @ 2:34 pm #
31.Comment by Salt Lick on 7/14 @ 1:33 pm #
…a nominee’s approach to the constitutional protection of liberty.
All your privileges, immunities, and rights are mine.
—————————–
All your Constitutions are belong to us
Comment by Pablo on 7/14 @ 2:37 pm #
Glenn Beck is going off on Goldman Sachs today. Should be an interesting show. But that’s not the only thing that’s being stuffed under Sonia.
Nice work, Urkel.
Comment by OCBill on 7/14 @ 2:42 pm #
I hope Jeff will comment on how those defending Sotomayor’s defense of her “wise Latina” remarks seem to be relying on the importance of her INTENT as opposed to the plain meaning of her words.
Comment by Joe on 7/14 @ 2:55 pm #
Al Franken, the idiot liberal.
Comment by peter jackson on 7/14 @ 3:11 pm #
Yeah, she’ll probably be confirmed, but these hearings suggest that she’ll be known as the stupidest Justice on the Court. The Republicans’ strategy seems to be to do to her what Couric did to Palin.
Comment by LTC John on 7/14 @ 3:14 pm #
I only got a “B” in Con Law – but even I know that Sotomayor got the incorporation doctrine backwards…oy.
Comment by Salt Lick on 7/14 @ 3:18 pm #
those defending Sotomayor’s defense of her “wise Latina” remarks seem to be relying on the importance of her INTENT as opposed to the plain meaning of her words.
I can change their minds.
“I would hope that a wise Caucasian man with the richness of his experiences would, more often than not, reach a better conclusion than a Hispanic woman who hasn’t lived that life.”
See, magic.
Comment by sdferr on 7/14 @ 3:25 pm #
I don’t for a minute believe that Sotomayor is at all stupid in the ordinary sense of the term.
She is unwise though, most especially to the extent that she chooses to waffle — if not outright lie — about the intent of her speech to the La Raza legal audience (and others). It may be inconvenient, for the moment, to stand up for her former philosophical principles, but she will look cowardly and dishonest in the long run should she find it more comfortable to return to them sometime down the road. Or in the alternative, should she choose to abandon her former belief permanently now, she will have demonstrated the unwisdom of taking those principles up in the first instance.
Either way, she can’t recover an offered benefit of the doubt very easily.
Comment by Pablo on 7/14 @ 3:29 pm #
Maverick’s poodle Lindsay had the highlight of his career today. Good dog.
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/14 @ 3:36 pm #
You know, this whole spectacle reminds me of, “the meaning of is, is”, redux…
I never thought I’d see that song-and-dance again in my life…
I agree with sdferr, this damages her credibility…
Comment by dicentra on 7/14 @ 3:45 pm #
I would like all you Caucasian lefties and liberals to consider the following:
Imagine that you’re involved in a lawsuit: plaintiff or defendant — doesn’t matter.
Now imagine that the judge is a white man or woman who has gone on record as saying that s/he is of necessity more empathetic to white people, being a white person him/herself.
Do you want that judge to be favorable to you just because you’re white? Would that make your stomach turn?
If it would, fine: you can keep your lefty/liberal creds and I’ll be happy to share the planet with you.
If not, get the HELL off my front porch, you sick, totalitarian freak.
Comment by gus on 7/14 @ 3:47 pm #
If only Joe the Plumber was a U.S.Senator.
Sotomayor has had 10 cases in her career before the SCOTUS. 8 have been reveresed, 1 vacated, 1 affirmed.
A fucking Geico cavemen on CRACK flipping a coin could be a better jurist than that.
9 of 10 reversed or vacated.
Wow, we’ve got a dimwitted racist hack in line to be Justice without any recourse for 30 years.
HOPE AND CHANGE!!!
Comment by dicentra on 7/14 @ 3:51 pm #
Also consider the following:
If Sotomayor were running for office in the legislative or executive branches — senator, mayor, governor, whatever — and she told a crowd of assembled Latinos that she could better represent their interests because she’s also Latina, then that would be absolutely appropriate, because that’s what you want in an elected official: someone who gets what you’re about.
But in the judicial branch, it’s anathema.
I have not been satisfied with the answers she’s given. She knows exactly what she’s NOT supposed to say, she knows that the questions are formulated to extract that information, and she’s doing a clumsy tap-dance around the “bad answers” that also happen to be true.
Look, if you want to dedicate your life to radical causes, go right ahead. It’s still a free country. But don’t go hiding those radical views later on, ya coward. If your causes aren’t palatable to the general public, so be it.
But I guess it’s more important to subvert the system from within. Play the moderate to get into office, then let ‘er rip with the radical stuff.
We’ll all thank her later, I guess, the way we were supposed to thank our parents for making us wear those dumb, painful, ugly braces during our teen years.
Comment by sdferr on 7/14 @ 4:01 pm #
The Didden case may constitute yet another Sotomayor 2nd circuit decision on the way to the SC for review gus. Here’s an amici brief filed on petition for cert. from I. Somin, V. Dihn, R. Epstein and N. AGHA. This case would push back against an expansion of Kelo type takings allowed the Village of Port Chester, Ct. and their agent, Greg Wasser.
Comment by sdferr on 7/14 @ 4:01 pm #
oops, sorry, link (pdf).
Comment by dicentra on 7/14 @ 4:07 pm #
Ace makes a simple intentionalism argument against the absurd claims of one of his more moronic morons.
Comment by Danger on 7/14 @ 4:10 pm #
http://www.fredthompsonshow.com/blog?action=viewBlog&blogID=24615550077602796
Teh Freds take on the confirmation hearings.
Fred 08 can I hear an amen from the choir?
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 7/14 @ 4:10 pm #
Actually, it’s the moron whose using intentionalism as a defense. He’s failing.
Comment by Danger on 7/14 @ 4:12 pm #
Oops, should have been Fred 2012.
(Well know that I think about it, it should have been 08 as well;)
Comment by gus on 7/14 @ 4:25 pm #
Good post Dicentra. Opie the big eared dimwits radical associations, thoughts and words were out there. His books, his entire lifes story, his associations tell us what a Marxist loser, emotionally disturbed, angry loser this guy is. But when he ran for national office, he pretended to be something else and the media complied with him. Joe the Plumber unmasked him but the public didn’t care. Sotomayor is no different.
Comment by SDN on 7/14 @ 4:31 pm #
Danger, a Fred/Palin ticket is one I’d sell body parts to support.
Comment by meya on 7/14 @ 4:36 pm #
“Danger, a Fred/Palin ticket is one I’d sell body parts to support.”
Palin/Fred
Comment by SDN on 7/14 @ 4:41 pm #
Either one is equally good for me.
Comment by Joe on 7/14 @ 5:01 pm #
Al “ACORN” Franken is on the judiary committe, which shows unserious the dems are..
Comment by Semanticleo on 7/14 @ 5:05 pm #
“I think I would make a pretty bitching Justice, ‘Cleo.”
Your lack of precision in yer grammar is emblematic of yer opinion of yerself.
I believe the expression is bitchin’, not bitching. Unless yer lack of precision spills over into yer intentionalism.
Comment by Christopher Taylor on 7/14 @ 5:05 pm #
Isn’t lying under oath a crime?
Comment by SBP on 7/14 @ 5:10 pm #
Not if you’re a Democrat, Christopher. See Clinton, William Jefferson.
Comment by B Moe on 7/14 @ 5:13 pm #
Maybe not, but she sounded retarded on the radio today.
Phoney.
Comment by maggie katzen on 7/14 @ 5:15 pm #
ha ha , no, she wasn’t lying. you just didn’t understand what she meant, which totally won’t happen once she’s a Supreme Court justice.
Comment by Spam Heap on 7/14 @ 5:22 pm #
Jesus.
Souter, who took away our property rights, is to be replaced by a race warrior.
I need guns. Lots of guns.
Comment by Semanticleo on 7/14 @ 5:23 pm #
‘Phoney’, eh?
Ouch……..
Comment by Semanticleo on 7/14 @ 5:25 pm #
“I need guns. Lots of guns.”
At least one for each tentacle……
Comment by B Moe on 7/14 @ 5:41 pm #
Yer own fault.
Comment by B Moe on 7/14 @ 5:42 pm #
Based on what I have heard I would have a real hard time calling Sotomayor a warrior.
Comment by B Moe on 7/14 @ 5:43 pm #
More like a used race-card salesman.
Comment by Christopher Taylor on 7/14 @ 6:51 pm #
She doesn’t strike me as stupid, she strikes me as quite ordinary, unexceptional, and out of her depth. That’s fine… for a law clerk, maybe even a lower level judge. But the Supreme Court?
Comment by dicentra on 7/14 @ 6:58 pm #
“I think I would make a pretty bitching Justice, ‘Cleo.”
I believe the expression is bitchin’, not bitching.
Unless the intent was to say that as a Justice, he’d bitch and moan all day long. In which case it was spot-on.
Comment by B Moe on 7/14 @ 7:19 pm #
Exactly so, dicentra. And I would be pretty doing it.
Comment by easyliving1 on 7/14 @ 7:26 pm #
Not watching baseball tonight? Did you know it was the all star game? Did you know Barry Obama showed up for an hour.
Well, President Obama is there now, and it has seemed like an hour.
Fox.
What would you think were it NBC hosting the all stars and having Barry, err, President Obama, around for the whole fucking game.
Comment by easyliving1 on 7/14 @ 7:26 pm #
Patriotic Barry!
Comment by easyliving1 on 7/14 @ 7:27 pm #
at least 7:20 until 7:25 mst
Comment by N. O'Brain on 7/14 @ 7:47 pm #
“Your lack of precision in yer grammar is emblematic of yer opinion of yerself.”
Oh, the irony it BURNS it BURNS!!!!!11!!!11
Comment by Christopher Taylor on 7/14 @ 7:50 pm #
I watched the Legends and Celebrities Softball game last night, that is always the best part of the festivities
Comment by JD on 7/14 @ 7:55 pm #
Easy – Teh One throws like a poofter. So not manly.
Comment by B Moe on 7/14 @ 8:12 pm #
Facepalm.
Comment by easyliving1 on 7/14 @ 8:13 pm #
Patriotic music. Patriotic backgroung. Patriotic coments.
Priceless.
Comment by easyliving1 on 7/14 @ 8:14 pm #
So that’s one d instead of g, and an extra m.
Comment by easyliving1 on 7/14 @ 8:15 pm #
Millions of people who give a shit about politics saw Barry tonight. A nice, jovial fellow indeed.
Comment by JD on 7/14 @ 8:22 pm #
A nice jovial fellow that throws like a flaming poofter.
Comment by Pablo on 7/14 @ 9:35 pm #
Malia would have thrown a strike, I’m guessing. Michelle would have knocked Pujols out.
Comment by LTC John on 7/14 @ 9:38 pm #
BTW – all and sundry should know that JD is still far too generous a host…and hf is as pleasant a fellow as can be.
Comment by geoffb on 7/14 @ 9:42 pm #
I second that LTC John.
Comment by geoffb on 7/14 @ 9:43 pm #
Youtube of Obama’s pitch.
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/14 @ 9:49 pm #
I’m glad to hear that a good time was had by all in Chi-town last night.
Comment by JD on 7/14 @ 10:25 pm #
Bob – I will be out your way later this year, assuming the Yankees make the playoffs.
Comment by psycho... on 7/14 @ 10:55 pm #
I assume there’s a reason they didn’t show where the ball went. Home plate isn’t outside camera coverage. Looked like a three-bouncer toward the dugout, at least in the uncut Kubrickian eternity of that steadicam fisheye shot of his ass. (WTF?)
I do like how cart-driving guy is all shitty with him. Trembling, sweaty hate for the President (whichever asshole it is) is the height of patriotism. Almost.
Comment by serr8d on 7/15 @ 4:57 am #
That might explain this response to Sen. Kyl…
That stinks of a mild deodorant sprayed on a skunk, and belies everything she’s said previously, and refutes Obama.
Heh. ‘
beshelies‘.Comment by serr8d on 7/15 @ 5:02 am #
From the earlier AZCentral link…
Jeff G could knock this one out of the park. An author, shifting intentionalisms…a new literary rubric?
Comment by Rusty on 7/15 @ 5:07 am #
#67
67.Comment by Semanticleo on 7/14 @ 5:25 pm #
“I need guns. Lots of guns.”
At least one for each tentacle……
Go ahead. See if you can be even more juvenile.
Do you also fantisize about marching us conservative untermenchen to the gas chambers?
Comment by serr8d on 7/15 @ 5:38 am #
Anybody in Pittsburgh? We needs a plant. Preferably one with tentacles.
Comment by SDN on 7/15 @ 5:43 am #
Now, Rusty, you know she could be more juvenile; banned-boi is the gold standard there.
Comment by Rick on 7/15 @ 6:11 am #
Is it still considered a sockpuppet if you are more accurately portraying the intentions of the original author?
Kill whitey.
Cordially…
Comment by serr8d on 7/15 @ 6:13 am #
Nirthers win one? WTF?
It’s a setup. They’ll hurt the kid somehow. Whynot Minot?
Comment by Silver Whistle on 7/15 @ 6:13 am #
Maybe I’ve missed some of the confirmation hearings, but I’ve yet to hear anyone asking Judge Sotomayor about the Constitution. The Second Amendment was briefly touched on, and her response was on the order of “I have a relative in the NRA and some friends who hunt”. I think much more could be gleaned from the good Judge in this area, and her view that the Bill of Rights does not protect states citizens’ right to keep and bear arms.
Comment by serr8d on 7/15 @ 6:22 am #
What every American needs to understand is that the 2nd has absolutely nothing to do with hunting. Anyone who uses the word ‘hunting’ in a conversation about the 2nd is clueless and needs disregarding.
Comment by geoffb on 7/15 @ 6:28 am #
Depends on what exactly you are hunting. Hunting to preserve freedom is part of it. Hunting four legged and winged creatures not so much.
Comment by Pablo on 7/15 @ 6:37 am #
Freezin’s the reason.
Comment by Pablo on 7/15 @ 6:41 am #
I’m guessing they decided to keep Maj. Cook stateside for a thorough examination.
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 7/15 @ 6:42 am #
At least one for each tentacle……
I’m not even sure what that’s supposed to mean. Is Cleo calling someone a hydra? Is that supposed to be funny?
Comment by guinsPen on 7/15 @ 7:07 am #
We’re Octopussy?
Comment by alppuccino on 7/15 @ 7:17 am #
“You claim to be an expert on the Constitution Ms. Sotomayor. When asked, should a candidate for POTUS, or a sitting POTUS produce proof of eligibility through natural citizenship?”
Comment by SDN on 7/15 @ 7:26 am #
I think Semanticleo is trying for a Cthulhu reference.
O kettle, thou art black! – Pot
Comment by Joe on 7/15 @ 7:35 am #
Miquel Estrada. Wise
LatinoAmerican and Judge. Trashed by the left. Where was the Latino outrage then?That said, sixty votes (plus a few weak Republicans) means she is going to be confirmed. Still, we should expose Judge Sotomayor and Barack Obama for what they are.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 7/15 @ 7:36 am #
“I think Semanticleo is trying for a Cthulhu reference.”
Oh, R’lyeh?
Comment by Joe on 7/15 @ 7:38 am #
Funny.
Comment by claudita1on1 on 7/15 @ 8:19 am #
Oh men……. its so dam sick 2 see this on TV all so political can they just look @ woman records n 4 GOD sake just stick 2 that.
Comment by Silver Whistle on 7/15 @ 8:24 am #
Claudita,
You’re not hitting on anyone here, are you? Because this isn’t a dating exchange.
Comment by geoffb on 7/15 @ 8:45 am #
Claudita has a Nishi textural essence.
Comment by Silver Whistle on 7/15 @ 9:33 am #
Who would possibly suspect that US Senate proceedings would be …"all so political" …
I tell you I am shocked, SHOCKED! to hear that.
Comment by Pablo on 7/15 @ 9:38 am #
Yeah, why interview her for a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land? Just look at her record. I suggest going with the “What percentage of your decisions review by SCOTUS have been overturned?” metric. And then Baracky can nominate a wise negress, like Janice Rogers Brown.
Comment by JD on 7/15 @ 9:41 am #
Thank you for making us all dummerer, claudita.
Comment by Silver Whistle on 7/15 @ 9:43 am #
look @ woman records
Pablo, I think Claudita means musical releases, you know, how many top 10 hits, number of weeks on Billboard top 100, that kind of thing. On account of the Supremes.
Comment by Silver Whistle on 7/15 @ 10:09 am #
I just heard the good Judge deny that the 2nd Amendment is a fundamental individual right. If any of the members of the Judiciary Committee would care to explore this line of inquiry, I think the populace would be very grateful.
Comment by sdferr on 7/15 @ 10:18 am #
Randy Barnett posts a poem by Gershon Hepner on interpretation. Nice suggestion, really.
Comment by geoffb on 7/15 @ 10:27 am #
Sounds familiar.
Comment by Silver Whistle on 7/15 @ 10:29 am #
Good catch, sdferr.
Of course, inquiring into clauses not cases would require senators to know something about the original meaning of the Constitution. It would interesting to hear what Sen. Al Franken thinks about such matters, but no more so than any other member of the Judiciary Committee. Such a hearing would not only be entertaining, it would be informative and educational. After all, it would be about the meaning of the Constitution, which is to say it would be about something.
Ouch. And I think Volokh heard the same clip I did.
Comment by JD on 7/15 @ 10:43 am #
Fuck the 2nd Amendment !!!!
Comment by Pablo on 7/15 @ 10:45 am #
I liked the part where she really couldn’t say whether Senator Coburn, as an American citizen, has a right to self defense. Too abstract a question, you see. Knowing that this stupid bint is about to take a seat on SCOTUS restores my faith in this great nation. Anything is possible, kids!
Comment by geoffb on 7/15 @ 11:00 am #
John Kerry, jealous that Franken may take his prime-time Senator idiocy title takes a pre-emptive shot at a favorite left target.
Comment by Silver Whistle on 7/15 @ 11:10 am #
I have heard a great deal from the punditocracy on how damaging to Republicanos would be a public flaying of Sotomayor – apparently Hispanics are waiting with bated breath to see how (mis)treated Her Honor is. I can’t believe her gutting of the 2nd Amendment is going to do her any favours either with Hispanics or pro-gun Dems. This would have been a better club, in my view, than the “wise Latina” with which to beat her about the head.
Comment by B Moe on 7/15 @ 2:45 pm #
If she won’t stick to her own record why should we?
Comment by JD on 7/15 @ 3:28 pm #
Geoffb – Sen. Longface (did you know that he was in VietNam?) is apparently trying to prove that he is a bigger douchenozzle than we once believed him to be.
Comment by SDN on 7/15 @ 3:44 pm #
N.O’Brain, if you click on the link Great Lord Cthulhu is well supplied with tentacles, and naturally we his favored minions must strive to be like him in all…..
Never Mind.
Comment by geoffb on 7/15 @ 6:49 pm #
International Feed has more normal shot of Obama’s pitch.
Comment by Danger on 7/16 @ 6:34 pm #
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2009/07/a-wise-latina-will-add-spice-to-the-menudo-of-justice.html
Iowahawk brings teh funny topical and timely as usual
Comment by tony0506@yahoo.com on 7/19 @ 3:25 pm #
I know this has nothing to do with the post… NE ways, Obama is a socialist. The only way socialism can ever succeed is if it kills poor, black and hispanic babies. That is why abortion needs to continue to be legal. So that the socialist government of Obama won’t have to support the poor with welfare and other government aid. Imagine this, if our taxes had to support millions upon millions of poor black and hispanic people – the government would go bankrupt… Everyone wants to live longer and people want to do this at all costs – even killing babies. Genocide of the poor and the weak – that’s the Obama story. He’s the Black Hero… Why do liberals and socialists talk about population control and yet want all these drugs and health care privilages for everyone to live longer? Talk about irony. If you liberals and socialists want to control population, then be the first to die! Why fund health care? Maybe it’s because of your selfishness and carelessness for your fellow man??? LOL! How ironic!