Originally Posted By Mr X BAD move, Mr. President! Should have saved her for the 3rd or 4th pick when people weren't paying so much attention I have a bad feeling her nomination will get held up. I really do. Perhaps blocked.
Originally Posted By DAR Honestly I know nothing about any of these people beforehand with the exception of Reinquist but that was because he was from Milwaukee.
Originally Posted By Sport Goofy << I have a bad feeling her nomination will get held up. I really do. Perhaps blocked. >> Nah. The opposition doesn't have the votes.
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones Hell yeah, a Hispanic activist left-wing judge. This is going to be fun. I'm reading up on her decisions and I think I want to marry her.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox <<I have a bad feeling her nomination will get held up. I really do. Perhaps blocked.>> She's a good choice and Obama should nominate her. There's no point holding left-of-center nominees in the wings for a "more appropriate" time that most likely will never materialize. Anyone and everyone nominated by Obama who isn't rabid anti-abortion will be held up and most likely blocked by the conservatives. You can count on that.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Sotomayor was originally appointed by Bush I, and promoted by Clinton. She can't be that out of the mainstream. Sure, she's pro-choice, but the Republicans couldn't have expected anything else (nor would they get anything else if she's rejected). They'll need to find better cause than she's pro-choice and/or liberal on such-and-such to block her. She's entitled to be both those things, and Obama is entitled to appoint such a judge, just as Bush was entitled to appoint conservatives. To hold her up, it all depends on how difficult they want to make things.
Originally Posted By EighthDwarf Maybe I'm too cynical, but it seems to me that Obama (and others) nominating Sotomayor is akin to McCain nominating Palin. While merit may be involved (admittedly more so in Sotomayor's case than Palin's), that isn't necessarily the driving force behind the nomination. In my opinion of course.
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones "While merit may be involved (admittedly more so in Sotomayor's case than Palin's), that isn't necessarily the driving force behind the nomination." Affirmative action nomination?
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Originally Posted By SpokkerJones "Why not get a judge that is... yes.. a good judge who is not a radical who had been overturned in the supreme Court 5 out of 6 times." Are you surprised that the decisions of a Hispanic woman would be overturned by a court with seven men, six of them white?
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones She comes from a different background with different views and will mix it up in the court. A Hispanic woman was pretty much predicted by many pundits I've listened to and I think it's about time.
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Originally Posted By EighthDwarf <<"While merit may be involved (admittedly more so in Sotomayor's case than Palin's), that isn't necessarily the driving force behind the nomination." Affirmative action nomination?>> Not at all. Obama knows that the Hispanics are a rapidly growing political base - come next election, he wants the opportunity to say that he was the first person to successfully nominate a Hispanic supreme court justice. It could help him win some Hispanic votes without spending the $20 Million he spent in '08 for the votes. I'm not saying it's not smart, just very political.
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones "She was overturned because her decisions were flawed and not well thought out. She simply is not a good judge. Her race and gender should not matter, what matters is her abilty to understand the law, which she obviously does not." She's a loose cannon, decimating a court system we all hold so dear...
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <She sucks and Obama is trying to go left as fast as he can because he knows the normal Americans he suckered into voting for him are not scared to death of what they now have in the White House. Obama knows he will be a one term socialist so he better do all the damage he can as fast as he can.> Oh, Lordy, it IS Beau.
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Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt "Hell yeah, a Hispanic activist left-wing judge. This is going to be fun. I'm reading up on her decisions and I think I want to marry her." LOL.
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones I don't agree with even half of her opinions, but she's going to really mix it up and I think her perspective on the court is long overdue.
Originally Posted By JohnS1 "Obama knows that the Hispanics are a rapidly growing political base - come next election, he wants the opportunity to say that he was the first person to successfully nominate a Hispanic supreme court justice." Bush would have been the first - but the democrats blocked his nomination. Hispanics aren't ever supposed to be conservative, apparently.
