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Sotomayor's Questionnaire Delivered to Senate
Submitted by anthony on Fri, 2009-06-05 18:08
Report here. Excerpt:
'The White House delivered Judge Sonia Sotomayor's questionnaire to the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday as her nomination to the Supreme Court continued to trigger a larger debate about gender and the judicial process.
And as committee members parse through the 173-pages of documentation, controversy swirls surrounding past comments made by the federal appellate judge relating to gender and ethnicity.
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These newly revealed comments appear as part of a recurring theme in Sotomayor's speech-giving history and only fuel the debatSandra Day O'Connor, the court's first woman justice, didn't believe it did.
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"I can't see, on the issues that we address at the court, that a wise old woman is going to decide a case differently than a wise old man," O'Connor said.
But Sotomayor has specifically said she doesn't agree with O'Connor and that women, because of their experiences, are better.
"Better," Sotomayor said in that same 1994 speech, "will mean a more compassionate and caring conclusion."'
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Political Eunuchs
The very idea that a misandric, racist, prejudiced and bigoted jerk like this woman even being considered a candidate for the US Supreme Court shows just how politically impotent (and STUPID) American men are!
Of course we all know the drill about how if the tables were turned and it was a White male judge candidate with White supremacist racial and misogynistic views on gender he would probably have to leave the country for his own safety.
This is just f*ckin' incredibly unbelievable!
Care and Compassion??? or respect for the Constitution???
Sorry, but regardless of the context I can't see how caring and compassion fit in with deciding whether a law is in conflict with the constitution. The human element would ideally be eliminated altogether, not promoted.
The use of words like caring and compassion by a judge is just a slick attempt to legitimize rulings based on politics rather than a dispassionate interpretation of the law.
Speechless
Quite possibly the biggest and most important issue facing our movement.
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Not to mention the fact...
...that she'd almost certainly be what some Republicans and libertarians refer to as an "activist judge". She's the sort of judge that will live out her natural life trying to set new policy from the bench rather than doing her job, which is interpreting legislation and jurisprudence within the framework of the constitution and bill of rights.
Personally I don't have a problem with judges occasionally making decisions that alter policy and drive new legislation but it should be the exception, not the rule. No branch of the government should be superior to the others.
Like you Arty, I can't see what caring and compassion have to do with resolving a dispute about the tax code, or eminent domain, or gun controls or any other thing. If she wanted to apply compassion and care she should have gone into education or medicine instead of law.
manonthestreet In the end
manonthestreet
In the end the conclusion to all this is that we can not have courts at all, and may be not governments either. There is no solution which fits everybody. So do away with all judges! What's for sure now is that whatever is happening then men are on loosing side.
this is EXACTLY
what you wind up with when you pass folks in college,
and promote them in the work place based on affirmative action.
judge lite.
The Misandrist news media...
The misandrist news media keeps mentioning the issue of racism surrounding her comments, but has never once (that I've heard) actually said her statements are "SEXIST/MISANDRIST," or "AGAINST MEN."
Good Point
I agree.