Sotomayer confirmed 68-31
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I disagree. All presidents, R or D, should be afforded broad discretion in their appointments. Absent incompetency, ethical lapses, or a clear lack of qualification, all nominees should be confirmed. IMHO, she met none of the standards to vote against her. She may not have been my choice, but she was Obama's choice, and I'm fine with that.
Yeah, that liberal judge appointed by a Republican..
If anything, that shows that common sense legal theory has a liberal bias.
It shows GOP presidents don't have a litmus test. Plenty of liberal judges have been GOP appointees. I can't remember the last time a Dem president picked a conservative justice.
Wrong on both counts. Bush SC appointee replaced by Bush Federal Court appointee. Liberals nowhere to be seen.
In facts, arguably the most 'liberal' Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Ginsberg, was the *Republicans'* choice for Bill Clinton that they'd accept, instead of a liberal Justice.
This issue of 'liberal' vs 'conservative' imo is really stupid. The real question should be, "Are they qualified and can they execute the job of the supreme court". Period. FWIW, it isn't just the conservatives saying it, we saw the same thing with the democrats
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Nice idealism, but the situation is that there is a large, ideological movement of radicals in the country, under the banner of the Federalist Society, and it changes things.
The court has long had various 'biases', but this is a large ideology-driven movement that has to be dealt with for what it is, because it predicts many votes.
There's a reason why so many decisions today are 5-4, with the same, predictable 5 and 4.
The words 'conservative' and 'liberal' are not too useful for discussing that, though.
Good Senators that saw that she is clearly a racists. The only racist is anybody that voted for her as that means they agree with her racists views.
I knew there were only a couple idiots who would bring up the 31 who didnt vote for her were racists. Senseamp was on the list right behind Jokus.
The 31 were atrocious - they voted against a highly qualified candidate who I'm not crazy about politically, but recognize is well-qualified.
It appears to me that these 31 were doing nothing but playing politics, by trying to manufacture one more 'cause' they 'stood against Obama on'.
I doubt they were racist much. The kind of people we're talking about are more about crass power and money than about something like racism.
They'll pander to the Hispanics, they'll pander to the racists, they'll pander to the anti-racists, it's not about any of the issues as much as the politics, it seems.
Similarly, the parrots here who repeat the talking about about her one speech comment are confronted with the facts of her voting record and not one I've seen answers them.
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