Leahy is an idiot, does not deserve the honor of being addressed as Senator. I listened to his pathetic speech before the hearing. He vainly was attempting to gloss over Sotomayors obvious history of bias as a federal judge which was a sham in the first place. Sotomayor no more deserves to be on the Supreme Court of this land than I do. Send the woman packing, this whole procedure is a farce !!!
Sotomayor will 'be a justice for all' - unless you're white, a white sympatizer or a mixture of anything white.... Justice and prejudice for 'some'...
This whole issue needs to be re-examined...
We expect a righteous judge to judge according to the law. God also must rule according to His law, or He would be an unjust judge.
Judge Sotomayor, first nominated by President Bush Sr. has show great respect for the Constitution. Her rulings on Constitutional matters has been right with the constitution. I have to believe her record. She does have right to freedom of speech ?
the great majority of the members of congress represent the banks and corporations....which are primarily controlled by a small "religious" group..
Souter was also nominated by a Republican - and was a 30 year mistake. They do not need another one like Sotomayor. They need to not even let her name be officially brought up before the Judiciary Committee as the Democrats did with Miguel Estrada.
These people are always split. So it's nothing new, maybe they should vote themselves other raise? That usally eases things abit. Randy
I never could figure out why it is always along party lines. If something is right or wrong, there are only two ways to go and your party should not have anything to do with it. If it does, you are just plain stupid and you all are just followers and not many leaders. Join the Jaycees and you will get leadership training.. Voice your opinion and not just because your "Party" thinks that way. What do you really think. If Peloske is just plain stupid, do you want to follow in her footsteps, just because. Come on Congress, do something that is really meaningful.
the Democrats up for re-election better contemplate a Filibuster because a yes will be a GOP attack ad lumping them with an "Activist" Judge that is outcome based and NOT LITERAL US Constitution based. Ask yourself why Liberals cover up and don't man up to be proud of SotoMayor's positions 1) Anti-Death Penalty 2) Anti-Gun 3) Affirmative Discrimination 4) La Raza RACIST 5) Pro- Abortion 6) Eminent Domain taking Personal Property 7) Incompetent 8) International Law Trumps the U.S.A. Constitution 9) Promises Judicial Policy aka judicial activism 10) Pro Teachers Union 11) NO on English Language Amendment 12) OK for Teaching in Spanish 13) NO School Vouchers all typical SotoMayor the embodiment of the Liberal Socialist Democrat an extremist elitist Sexist Racist agenda.
Love to see the trailer trash angry white rednecks calling Sonya a racist
No wonder no body believes you
The most experience nominee in 100 years and the GOP Senators are folding like cheap suits
Gallup
7/10-12/09; 1,018 adults, 3% margin of error
Mode: Live telephone interviews
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National
Would you like to see the Senate vote in favor of Sotomayor serving on the Supreme Court, or not?
53% Vote in favor
33% Vote not in favor
Is this the SAME Mathewjw who claimed that conservative Dems were plotting a filibuster
Chased off another thread for making it all up
The People rest Judge Sotomayor
Competence returns to America!
"The progression of my life has been uniquely American. My parents left Puerto Rico during World War II. I grew up in modest circumstances in a Bronx housing project. My father, a factory worker with a third grade education, passed away when I was nine years old.
On her own, my mother raised my brother and me. She taught us that the key to success in America is a good education. And she set the example, studying alongside my brother and me at our kitchen table so that she could become a registered nurse. We worked hard. I poured myself into my studies at Cardinal Spellman High School, earning scholarships to Princeton University and then Yale Law School, while my brother went to medical school. Our achievements are due to the values that we learned as children, and they have continued to guide my life's endeavors. I try to pass on this legacy by serving as a mentor and friend to my many godchildren and students of all backgrounds.
Over the past three decades, I have seen our judicial system from a number of different perspectives - as a big-city prosecutor, a corporate litigator, a trial judge and an appellate judge. My first job after law school was as an assistant District Attorney in New York. There, I saw children exploited and abused. I felt the suffering of victims' families torn apart by a loved one's needless death. And I learned the tough job law enforcement has protecting the public safety. In my next legal job, I focused on commercial, instead of criminal, matters. I litigated issues on behalf of national and international businesses and advised them on matters ranging from contracts to trademarks.
My career as an advocate ended--and my career as a judge began--when I was appointed by President George H.W. Bush to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York"
No wonder the red-state educationally deprived, in bred poor white trash hate her so
Don't y'all have some cross burnings to go 2
How about a JOB!
Radicals and liberals are NEVER "HUMBLED"
She is saying what she thinksshe needs to say to get approval.
She is in no matter what, so Republicans just need to say NO and go about there business.
If you love racist la raza centered( I know) latina boneheads, you'll
LOVE Sotomeyer. Hey blacks, she hates you too. Drink the koolaid,
cut off your own nose to spite "whitey".
Farnsworth is right on. Does anyone really believe that Sotomayor will "show her true colors" (such as her racist comment about white men)? NO. She will say what the senators want to hear, regardless of whether or not it's the truth, everyone will smile at each other and thank themselves endlessly for this wonderful confirmation hearing, and she's in. THEN, when she's on the bench, her radical, racist, angry, and derisive nature will kick in.
I am not against breaking the glass ceiling for Hispanics on the Supreme Court. I just feel that there has to be more than one qualified candidate that is Hispanic and female out there. Why should we be forced to elect a woman who due to the richness of her background and experience as a wise Latino woman might act out of bias in cases that come before her? That would be like electing an inexperienced first term Senator to be President simple because he was good looking, black, and doing so would make history. I feel we should vote on character, record, and facts, not on hopes, hypothetical’s and making history.
Send your comments to the white house. I just sent a note addressed to Obama that he was full of himself & needs a brain enema. I asked him to step down and to stop tearing America apart. That it will take several lifetimes to correct all the he has done in just six months. I also said that Americans died for his family & mine to have FREEDOM from government tyranny.
Send emails to the white house. It's easy & they do get read.
blacks have all black negro colleges but whites can't have all white colleges. sotomayor and obama are racists. What i find funny about the democrats is they see obama is failing yet a select few of them are sticking by his side. blacks make up 11 percent of americas population yet they make up 65% of americas total prison population. blacks should get no rights until there crime rate drops. Its funny these democrats support blacks if they do crime but these white democrats hate it when other whites do crime. They are traitors to there country to there white race and most of all to themselves. mexicans come in to our country illegally and get free education free rides and wellfare. no wonder our economy sucks. I am soo glad to see obamas polls dropping. I am glad i am not the only one anymore who realizes he is a socialist.
white people lets take back our country the blacks mexicans have made our country s*** we are the majority not them. they can do their crime and bum off the government somewhere else.
The sick dance continues. How do you like watching the destruction of the country you love? Did any of the political views that these dirtbags spout do anything to make America continue to be the great nation she was proud to be?The third world is upon us,and we are allowing these savages to turn America into the crap-holes they claim to have fled. Sad isnt it?
Only the father.. I used to be a democrat and yes i voted for Obama but never again will i vote for a democrat they are nothing but hypocrites and communist.
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