The Washington Post asked several folks (including two conspirators) to opine briefly on what we should expect from Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s first term on the Supreme Court. The results are here.
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Connecticut Lawyer says:
What to expect? A reliable liberal vote. Well written but not brilliant opinions. A little showing off at oral argument.
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October 5, 2009, 8:46 amChrisTS says:
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The people who spoke to the Post seem to differ.
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October 5, 2009, 9:05 amSteve says:
Mr. Adler — where do you think Sotomayor will fit on the political spectrum of the court?
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October 5, 2009, 9:41 amRedman says:
I predict ... Sotomayorgasms!
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October 5, 2009, 10:01 am24AheadDotCom says:
I predict she’ll do what the groups she used to belong to (such as this one) want in cases that are of interest to them. And, that will be the first time that many people realize just how badly they were scr3wed by those who in effect rolled over after her nomination.
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October 5, 2009, 12:48 pmRPT says:
24.com:
Can you identify any particular cases on which La Raza has a presumed interest? For example, which result would they want on Citizens United? And how would that result be different such that many people will then realize how they were not protected by the GOP in voting for her confirmation?
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October 5, 2009, 3:29 pmMenzworld says:
Congratuation liberals, you have your 1st Female Latina Racist in the high court. She will serve well for you.
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October 5, 2009, 3:42 pm24AheadDotCom says:
“RPT” is the latest name by the same old sockpuppet; maybe one day this site could look through its server logs and see if they spot anything interesting. They wouldn’t even have to identify people, just indicate whether people from certain cities or organizations are leaving interesting comments.
As for its comment, here’s the type of case that SoniaS’s buddies would be very interested in: http://www.americanpatrol.com/REFERENCE/SCHEY-Peter-Reference.html
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October 5, 2009, 4:27 pm24AheadDotCom says:
As for Menzworld’s comment, it took two to tango: the Dems to nominate her, and the supposed BHO opponents to put up an incredibly weak opposition (aside, of course, for those who simply caved right after she was announced).
Don’t just blame the Dems, also blame the leaders of the supposed opposition to BHO.
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October 5, 2009, 4:29 pmChrisTS says:
Setting aside the ‘we have decided she is awful’ vote, here is one comment from the linked WaPo article:
BRADFORD A. BERENSON
Associate counsel to President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2003; partner at Sidley Austin LLP; clerked for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy
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October 5, 2009, 5:14 pmRPT says:
What is a “sockpuppet’?
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October 5, 2009, 5:21 pmMenzworld says:
24HeadDotCom, the Dems are a majority now and there wasn’t enough “BHO Opposition” to speak of because of it. They did however put up a week opposition. Sotomayor... Oh sorry, Honerable Sotomayor had three politcally correct things going for her. 1. Her gender: Female, 2. Her race: Puerto Rican — Hispanic and so-called minority, and 3: She’s a Liberal Democrat, in that order.
I believe the GOP had burned to many bridges because the Iraq and Afghan wars, the wire tapping, their interagation techniques and ... Etc that they didn’t have much to stand and thus had to give in to anybody that fit the Dems pick. They let it slide because she’s was the lesser of all evils.
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October 5, 2009, 5:48 pm24AheadDotCom says:
The Dems had the votes, but if BHO opponents had brought up the group I linked above they could have lowered her approval so low that she would have either withdrawn or at least been forced to denounce that group. Both would have been a good thing, but the leaders of the supposed opposition to BHO were (and still are) too incompetent to get them.
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October 5, 2009, 6:32 pmMenzworld says:
If they are incompetent, it is because they are scared of opposition from Women’s Lib and Minority groups and let the fear cloud their perceptions and altimately, their lack of resolve. If a male were to make the same gender and race based comment that she did, he would have not even been nominated, let alone appointed. It’s the double standards of our time. Government sponsored discrimination and blind eye racism.
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October 5, 2009, 10:51 pmConnecticut Lawyer says:
Based on her first day at oral argument, I would say that so far, I’m one for three. We’ll have to wait for some opinions to be handed down to see how my other predictions fare.
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October 6, 2009, 7:55 amSteynian 387 « Free Canuckistan! says:
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ChrisTS says:
menzworld:
You keep overlooking the analysis of those who have actually reviewed her record. She is hardly a ‘liberal’ as a judge.
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October 6, 2009, 3:34 pmChrisTS says:
I think it refers to someone who goes about blogs posting comments under the guise of being someone else, someone with no particular dog in a fight. That sort of thing.
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October 6, 2009, 3:36 pmMenzworld says:
ChrisTS, is that all you could say?
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October 9, 2009, 8:20 pm