a judicious quote
“I’ve only seen the headlines, but I expect all the clowns put on their clown suits this morning and are presently climbing out of their clown car at the studio. I’m thinking liberal, activist, Puerto Rico isn’t even a state and the Bronx isn’t either, law-into-her-own-hands, affirmative action, closeted lesbian, the guy in front of me at Dunkin D’s said she wasn’t too bright. On that last point, it’s well known amongst alums that whereas the Princeton Sam Alito graduated from in 1972 was a bastion of civilized learning, the Princeton Sotomayor graduated summa cum laude from four or five years later was a hippie “learning cooperative” where minorities got a coupon book of “A” grades upon admission to use up as needed, and the concept of truth was rigorously suppressed by the leftist faculty.”
Kieran Healy on President Obama’s pick of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court
At least she’s Catholic, right?Report
Oh Catholics are all just hippies anymore. Ever since that damnable Vatican II.Report
President Obama will nominate Judge Sonia Sotomayor
If confirmed by the Democratic-controlled Senate, Judge Sotomayor, 54, would replace Justice David H. Souter to become the second woman on the court and only the third female justice in the history of the Supreme Court. She also would be the first Hispanic justice to serve on the Supreme Court.
See details of her biography:Judge Sonia Sotomayor-news-onlineReport
Oh come on – this is a straw man. There are substantive critiques of Sotomayor out there.Report
Everything’s a straw man in the end, if you apply it to everyone. Of course there is a substantive critique of Sotomayor out there – there would be of every possible candidate as we live in an utterly imperfect world. I think there is probably a substantive critique available for everyone on the Supreme Court today.
My deal is this – I’m just tired of the nonsense surrounding SCOTUS nominees. I’m tired of the constant, vitriolic battles, from Right and Left, since we all know that at some point – as long as qualifications are intact, which they typically are – ideology will reign supreme. That’s the game.Report
Which, I think, is a reason to oppose ideologically-charged Supreme Court candidates like Sotomayor . . .Report
If she breaks with Ginsberg more often than Souter did (didn’t they vote together more often than Thomas and Scalia???) then we might have something. If she actually read the Constitution once, including the Amendments, we might even have a decent justice this time.
What makes her “ideologically charged”, necessarily?
I mean, my preferred picks are *ALL* ideologically charged. They’re folks who read the Constitution and paid special attention to the Amendments.
What makes her worse than Souter?Report
“At least she’s Catholic, right?”
The charge will likely be that she’s not a good Catholic, as was used by some against Kerry.Report