White House Officials Dismiss Criticisms of Sotomayor, Say She Was Likely Pick from the Beginning

It seems the confirmation process for the new SCOTUS will overwhelm the media focus for the next few months, as NK and Iran continue their nuclear build-up.
When will the American people wake-up and realize they are entering a very dangerous phase of world history with an inexperienced leader at the helm?
Do we rally want a nuclear armed Japan and Saudi Arabia (Pakistani nukes atop chinese SS missiles) in response to NK and Iran?
Do we want a world where NK is selling bomb fuel for money?
Or one where Iran is aiding our enemy with nuclear-know how?

Bush and Cheney Violated The Constitution a Number of times
Cite Torturte
Cite Lying war

It’s my bet she was last on the list. That doesn’t mean she won’t be a good justice. However, Hispanics may have handed Obama the win, so this is payback.

Its time for a black woman on SC.
This strategy is to alienate hispanics from the republican party as they oppose her

“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,” said Judge Sotomayor
Has this been explained by Obama? I would hope you ask about this at the press briefing.

“An official said they largely discussed the law and the president felt that they had a “compatibility” in how they view the role of judges and the law.”
Yikes…we’ve seen firsthand how Obama views the law…It’s something to be interpreted or even disregarded in order to fit his view of the world and to further his ideological objectives.

MNM
this is all you need to know about your boy ‘W’ and his ilk:
In 2003 while lobbying leaders to put together the Coalition of the Willing, President Bush spoke to France’s President Jacques Chirac. Bush wove a story about how the Biblical creatures Gog and Magog were at work in the Middle East and how they must be defeated.
In Genesis and Ezekiel Gog and Magog are forces of the Apocalypse who are prophesied to come out of the north and destroy Israel unless stopped. The Book of Revelation took up the Old Testament prophesy:
Bush believed the time had now come for that battle, telling Chirac:
” This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people’s enemies before a New Age begins”.

Posted by: Non-Revisionist | May 26, 2009 1:52:41 PM
Actually, Thomas Rohmer said it, not Bush. Rohmer was explaining the names to Chirac.
But never you mind that once again you lefties took something totally false and used it to beat up Bush.

“Well, Obama wanted someone who specifically would ignore the law. Sotomayor by her admission allows that her courts make policy rather than respect law.”
Lol. Yeah, that’s it.

This is the originla article:
In Allez savoir, Thomas Römer details: Gog and Magog are two creatures who appear in Genesis, and especially in the most arcane chapters of the Old Testament Book of Ezekiel. An apocalyptic prophecy of a global army giving final battle in Israel.
“This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people’s enemies before a New Age begins,” continues Thomas Römer.
>> You left wingnuts are despicable. Rather then spend 10 seconds verifying the veracity of something, you spread lies so fast that entire search engines are clogged with your garbage.
And none of you is right.

I litigated before Sotomayor, Huminski v. Haverkoch 11/5/04, . Aside from ignoring the facts and applicable law, Sotomayor could not even get the standard of review correct. It was De Novo (cross motions for summary judgment) not reversible error as Sotomayor found. Law school 101 flunk-out. Dangerous jurist. She also blessed prosecutorial acceptance of a bribe in the same case. — scott

She is another example of someone overcoming the challenge of making it while a republican is in office. You’ve got to hand it to her, able to overcome the hardships presented by Reagan to achieve the impossible dream.

“The law is the law.”
Doesn’t the need for the SCOTUS pretty much stand in contradiction to this assertion?

Everybody needs to calm down.
Wasn’t she confirmed by the Senate (Democrats and Republicans) not once but two times?
What’s the problem?

Regardless where on the ideological spectrum one falls, copying and pasting while debating something without making it clear that’s what you’re doing is incredibly lame.

===Do you know who appointed the first woman to SCOTUS?===
Yeah. I also know who opposed Miguel Estrada. Seems Hispanic only matters when you are liberal.

drjohn:”This is pablum created to provide cover to ignore the law.”
She has a long, public, case history. Please cite where she has ignored the law.

Axey:”Yeah. I also know who opposed Miguel Estrada. Seems Hispanic only matters when you are liberal.”
Miguel Estrada? He’d be the far-right Bush nomination to a lower court who was rejected. Meanwhile, 27 other Hispanic, conservative justices appointed by Bush (more than Clinton got seated) sailed through with token or no opposition. For the record, that’d be 96% of Hispanic appointees were dutifully approved.

===Miguel Estrada? He’d be the far-right Bush nomination to a lower court who was rejected.===
While you pretend Sotomayor is “moderate”. She will be confirmed, the consequence of an election. But don’t pretend she is not who she is.

Do you just make this stuff up out of thin air?
“On a related matter, Cuban-Americans, one of the most reliable parts of the GOP base, are shifting their views on relations with Castro’s Cuba. A poll of Cuban-Americans taken in mid-April, just days after President Obama loosened restrictions on family visits and monetary payments to relatives in Cuba, showed 64% favored the policy change to 27% who opposed it. The poll was taken by Bendixen & Associates (D). The survey also showed that 67% of respondents gave Obama a favorable rating to 20% who did not.” (SPR)
Posted by: Padma | May 26, 2009 2:04:19 PM
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The survey said 64 percent of respondents favor Obama’s directive to lift all restrictions on remittances and visits by Cuban Americans to family in Cuba. Twenty-seven percent of respondents said they were opposed to the measure.
The telephone survey of 400 Cuban-American adults in Florida, New Jersey and other states was conducted in Spanish and English on April 15-16, days after Obama announced his administration would relax sanctions against Havana. The margin of error is plus or minus 5 percentage points.
You will see that the survey you cite, aside from polling a statistically insignificant number, polled from more states than just florida.
You have no data on florida only cubans.
You have no data on the other questions in the poll and did that impact the overall result.
floridians are far more passionate about the issue than those who have moved out of the community.
Where is the data on the florida community, undiluted as was clearly intended in this poll.

Miguel Estrada? He’d be the far-right Bush nomination to a lower court who was rejected. Meanwhile, 27 other Hispanic, conservative justices appointed by Bush (more than Clinton got seated) sailed through with token or no opposition. For the record, that’d be 96% of Hispanic appointees were dutifully approved.
Posted by: jhw539 | May 26, 2009 2:31:04 PM
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What a crock of spin.
Estrada was nominated to the US District Court of Appeals, immediately below the Supreme Court.
The fear back then (for the dems) is this was going to be the first move for Estrada, the second being a nomination to the supreme court when an opening existed. It was said then that the dems would never let a republican nominate the first hispanic to the supreme court.
Of course no one would go on record saying that, but that is typical dem identity politics.
The dems never let his nomination out of committee so he could get to a vote.
There were no claims of his being so far right as to be untenable.
They simply exercised their rabid control, as they do now.

MNM:”Of course no one would go on record saying that, but that is typical dem identity politics.”
Ah yes, your incredible mind reading ability can vouch I suppose.
“There were no claims of his being so far right as to be untenable.”
Really? What do you consider a claim? He had no judicial experience at all, so there were no claims about his past judicial work. There were accusations made and a bitter fight over the refusal by the Administration to release any of the memos he wrote while he was at the Solicitor General’s office (such memos had been made available for past confirmations).
“They simply exercised their rabid control, as they do now.”
It should be noted that they were the minority in 2005. Again, they approved 27 of Bush’s Hispanic judges without problem.

This woman in her own words has said that judges “make policy”- of course her nomination is very troubling to anyone with 1/2 a brain. She is another far-left zealot who believes that “evil America” needs a major overhaul.
She is a reverse racist who has demonstrated her ridiculous beliefs repeatedly, via her decisions from the bench.
Obama and the rest of the liberal loons hate America and the sooner the ignorant masses realize that the better off this country will be.

=== 6 of which also included Republican majorities in the House and Senate.===
You sure about that?

jhw
No, I was referring the woman’s ridiculous reverse racist comments like this….
“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,”
or
“Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences,” she said, for jurists who are women and nonwhite, “our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.”
She is part of the nutty liberal crowd who is OBSESSED with race. Without liberals, race would almost never be an issue.
Liberals are the only ones who believe in giving grants, jobs, pay raises, college admissions, ect based SOLELY on one’s skin color.

White House dismisses criticism.
You could stop right there.. all we have heard is that if you disagree with the White House.. you have racial or nutcase motives…

..Everybodies family lives in Florida..
can you come and pick them up and take them home with you..

Oh, and for the record Dave said:
“She is a reverse racist who has demonstrated her ridiculous beliefs repeatedly, via her decisions from the bench.”
Before helpfully pointing out that he was just making up that bit about ‘via her decisions’ from (very) thin air.

Why don’t the voters get to choose the Supreme Court Justices? Like, have a special election or something.

I am African-American and live in Miami , Fl. Hispanics are here in droves and I have been in Miami 40 years. Many are racist here and do not associate with Blacks. The Cubans are the worst. Obama should have appointed someone that was fair and did not give racist statements. Many latinos here think they are better than other minorities and Sotomayer already has said some satement thatshe is racist on the “white side also”. I don’t trust her and Obama should have picked someone else that was not racist. Too bad Obama but I am not with you on this one. This sounds like Political Planning for 2012. No thanks.

Another Obama mistake. He’s a runaway train.

Meridia clinic toronto.

Meridia.