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05-26-2009, 04:56 PM | #1 |
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What's her record on the 2nd amendment?
Didn't some liberal blogger already make a snarky comment about her diabetes and life expectancy? |
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Well, golly, gee-whiz, what a wonderful advocate of states' rights. Does that apply to all civil liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights? |
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05-27-2009, 12:55 AM | #4 |
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Now we have our first real controversy: is Sotomayor is confirmed, is she the first Hispanic on the court.
One argument says Cardozo was the first Hispanic, as he was of Portugese descent. Some arguments about the definition of "Hispanic": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic Maybe modern day Hispanics don't care for the fact that the first Hispanic member of the Supreme Court was a Jewish white male. Who knows. So now, it is agreed by all, that Sotomayor would be the first "Latina" on SCOTUS. Meanwhile Asian-Americans shake their fists at the sky. |
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Let me go grab my assault rifle right now...
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05-27-2009, 03:42 AM | #6 |
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Axelrod, interviewed today, said that Obama prayed last night about his decision to choose Sotomayor.
I thought that was interesting. I don't think many people here have a problem with Obama praying about his decisions, right? |
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I don't, though I find it interesting the notion of GWB praying about stuff threw the left into a tizzy.
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I have a problem with the whole empathy thing in a supreme court justice. Doesn't that go against the idea of that lady with the blindfold and the scales?
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That line in that speech is going to be a big problem for her. But let's not forget that we have a president who prefers his judicial nominees to base their decisions at least in part on considerations other than the law. He said as much during the campaign, so we can't be too surprised that he's delivering on that promise.
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