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The Sotomayor papers
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has had involvement with the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (now known as LatinoJustice PRLDEF), and the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Jeff Sessions, believes that papers from that organization could reveal Sotomayor’s position on several key issues. The White House, however, claims the papers are irrelevant to Sotomayor’s nomination and has resisted the release of them.
“During her time there, the organization took extreme positions on legal issues ranging from the death penalty to abortion to racial quotas,” said Sessions, calling the White House’s claims of irrelevancy “absurd.”
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What? The White House refuses to let us see her papers? What happened to transparency? I think it means we can all see right through their schemes to hide what they really want. (Conspiracy theorists should be glad Obama won, as his administration plays right into their hands.)
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whats an extreme position on the death penalty?? The penalty is the extreme not the debate.
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The White House, however, claims the papers are irrelevant to Sotomayor’s nomination and has resisted the release of them.
Nothing Sotomayor has ever done or said has any bearing on her nomination.
Sotomayor is listed as a member of the racist National Council of La Raza (i.e. The Race), a group promotes driver’s licenses for illegal aliens, amnesty programs, and no immigration law enforcement by local and state police.
Sotomayor’s famous racist statement about the superiority of Latina women was actually made during a 2001 speech at the University of California’s Berkeley School of Law. The lecture was published the following year in the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal, entitled “Could Mexico retake the southwestern United States?”
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The death penalty is constitutional, always has been. The Founders believed as did those who ratified the Constitution that the death penalty was necessary. No one can be deprived of his life without due process of law.
Murder is extreme, too.
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The White House is becoming more ‘brown shirt’ every day – “Ve Vill tell you Vhat you need to know, vhen to know it and vhat to think about it.”
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But Ivan, surely you don’t mean a comparison with the Nazi brown shirts, ’cause I’m not seeing all that much efficiency in the White House version.
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NJL- but there is a pervasiveness and a ruthlessness by the administration and their surrogates when dealing with those who dare speak out against the “One.” As for their efficiency there is hope they will stay inefficient and maybe the lapdog press will once again become the watchdog press – witness Helen Thomas’ growling at Gibbs.
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Ivan. You must read Jonah Goldberg’s book Liberal Fascism. It is extremely well researched and is a real eye opener about the social progressive movement in America.
You will begin to understand why Obama insists on perpetuating crisis after crisis. Because that is how the soft fascism of progressivism advances, centralizing power in order to “solve” the next crisis and the next one, and so on.
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My newscrawler says the next crisis the our overwhelming debt.You know what that means….
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Oh another case of conservative madness. The Senator is looking for her positions in a membership organization when you have a years of court decisions? It’s not like the judge doesn’t have a paper trail.
Admittedly her stance on abortion is unclear, but then again, this is a judge from the left. So any uncertainty about abortion is the degree she differs from pro-choice orthodoxy — and there actually have been articles reflecting this worry from the left.
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No, what this is is another case of liberal unwillingness to take a hard look at anything or anyone Obama proposes. The liberals have a problem each and every time they are questioned. Maybe Ivan’s more correct about brown shirts than I thought. The very idea that a Supreme Court nominee can’t be cross-examined simply because she is a liberal and should therefore be immune is appalling and any liberal who espouses such a position should be ashamed.
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The papers are relevant, the white house and its occupant are lying yet again. SHAME SHAME on OBAMA and all those who defend him.
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Harris. “Admittedly her stance on abortion is unclear”
You can’t possibly be serious can you?
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The very idea that a Supreme Court nominee can’t be cross-examined simply because she is a liberal and should therefore be immune is appalling . . .
But of course she can be, and seven Republicans will have the opportunity to question her in any manner they see fit. It’s all up to these guys:
Jeff Sessions, Ranking Member, Alabama
Orrin Hatch, Utah
Chuck Grassley, Iowa
Jon Kyl, Arizona
Lindsey Graham, South Carolina
John Cornyn, Texas
Tom Coburn, Oklahoma
Call them. Tell them to release the hounds and spare no quarter. You know how much you want to get even for Bork.
Guess what? I agree with you, NJLAWYER. Liberals should not be spared. Especially liberals. I want you to rip these hearings up.
I can’t wait to see if anyone rushes from the room in tears . . . and if Republicans really believe this nomination is shameful.
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#14 It will be a kangaroo court, since the decision has already been made. Republican questioning will be a circus side show that will be mostly ignored by the media.
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Alito didn’t run away in tears. He never batted an eyelash. Since I know Martha Alito, I’m not finding your mocking her very funny. She loves her husband and knew he didn’t deserve what was happening to him. What the Dems did to him was unfounded, certainly what Kennedy did. Alito followed proper procedure with respect Vanguard.
When another judge left the court because of a particular disease I won’t go into, the Chief Judge reviewed EVERY case he sat on to make sure the defendant/parties got a fair shake.
So, laugh all you want, but there’s something wrong with liberals when they don’t want fundamental fairness in a judge.
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Contrary to #15, I predict the media will re-broadcast every moment of hostile interrogation and every flinch of weakness. The media would like nothing better. Me too. If Republicans think she is a racist, they have a duty to treat her like a racist deserves to be treated. If they think she’s an unjust judge, they need to hang a millstone around her neck and test whether she floats. On the other hand, if Republicans fail to confront Sotomayor with the list of accusations we’ve been hearing, then I hope y’all be just as outraged as me.
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I stumbled across a curious reference yesterday. How far back does Sotomayor’s family go in Puerto Rico?
He [Ponce de Leon] landed at Anasco Bay on Midsummer Day 1506, subjugated within a year the Tiano of the western half of Puerto Rico, and established a fortified capital a short distance up the Anasco, which he named Villa de San Germain. According to Oviedo, this was done without too much fighting because the mother of the local cacique, Aguaybana, a wise old lady, persuaded her son to submit to the inevitable; and the Tiano were quiet for several years. In 1511, however, there occurred a general rising of Puerto Rican natives (probably the fault of one of Ponce’s captains, Cristobal de Sotomayor), and before this rebellion was quenched there was plenty of battling.
The European Discovery of America, The Southern Voyages, Samuel Eliot Morison p 503
I doubt there is any family connection, there were many Spanish emigres from Sotomayor, but the continental United States certainly has no monopoly on oppression.
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Amphipolis – perhaps you should ask your Senator (a Republican?) to subpoena a DNA sample to determine the components of Sotomayor’s genetic pool, whether European, Amerindian, or African. The better to cross-examine her regarding the meaning of Latina and the nature of her wisdom. I suspect you’d find it a satisfying inquiry. Did her people survive the colonial genocide/s? Did they get their name from the encomienda where they worked or did they bring it with them from Spain? Armed with this data, you could correct and instruct her self-identity. It would be an edifying thing for every Latina in America, wise or foolish.
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Alas, the Republican Senator I had is no longer a Republican.
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