Drudge: Sotomayor admitted she only got into college because of Affirmative Action

[~PalmTreeGurl~ 154]

Im moving to Texas to get away from Obama

Texas is still part of the United States. The wish among the terrorist wing of the GOP to undo that hasn't achieved fruition yet.

ok well since getting away from Obama wont work, it will just help me get closer to Colorado so I can go snow skiing again in Crested Butte

[NickD 203]

She's an affirmative action Supreme Court candidate appointed by the affirmative action president.

oh i want to say something about that woman, but i think i will be nice right now bcz it might reflect my feelings about Obama

You're afraid to admit that Obama is your Louuuve God?

lol I think you know my opinion of him by now

So you're moving to Texas to get closer to Bush?

darn right ... lol I cant help the fact that a good bit of my family are conservative/republican like me and happen to live in Texas.

A "conservative/republican" is a contradictory phrase.

[Heracles 417]

Sotomayor once described herself as 'product of affirmative action'... admitted to two Ivy League schools despite scoring lower on standardized tests than many classmates, which she attributed to 'cultural biases... built into testing'...

Developing...

http://www.drudgereport.com/

Typical

[mawilson 2,133]

Bump

[Guderian 0]

Most really clever people don't seek out positions in the public eye.

This one really is dumber than a box of rocks, and a racist, to boot.

[Peikko 1,575]

Most really clever people don't seek out positions in the public eye.

This one really is dumber than a box of rocks, and a racist, to boot.

A well thought out and rational opinion I see. One which greatly lends to your credibility in the dungeon that is VJ OT

[Guderian 0]

Most really clever people don't seek out positions in the public eye.

This one really is dumber than a box of rocks, and a racist, to boot.

A well thought out and rational opinion I see. One which greatly lends to your credibility in the dungeon that is VJ OT

Did I mention that she is ugly, arrogant, and writes poorly, too?

[pedroh 21]

this troll sounds much like zqqt

[Peikko 1,575]

Most really clever people don't seek out positions in the public eye.

This one really is dumber than a box of rocks, and a racist, to boot.

A well thought out and rational opinion I see. One which greatly lends to your credibility in the dungeon that is VJ OT

Did I mention that she is ugly, arrogant, and writes poorly, too?

I don't remember, did you? Doing so is adding to your reputation though. Well done.

[Niels Bohr 72]

I'm surprise that they haven't nominated an Asian to the bench.

Nevermind

Edited June 15, 2009 by Niels Bohr

[Peikko 1,575]

It's about time!

Seriously, this appointment should not be couched in these terms by government or the media. Yes, we need a representative government and judicial system, but to suggest that people are nominated on the basis of their cultural identity as apposed to some overriding merit for the position is just sillyness.

[Ban Hammer 14,569]

I'm surprise that they haven't nominated an Asian to the bench.

Nevermind

why would an asian take a decrease from engineer pay?

Edited June 15, 2009 by charles!

[Guderian 0]

It's about time!

Seriously, this appointment should not be couched in these terms by government or the media. Yes, we need a representative government and judicial system, but to suggest that people are nominated on the basis of their cultural identity as apposed to some overriding merit for the position is just sillyness.

So you agree that gender and ethnicity are not good criteria for selection.

Perhaps, then, the candidate should be evaluated based upon judicial accumen. Perhaps the candidate's previous decisions should be scrutinized for judicial prudence. Perhaps the 67% refusal rate for her decisions on appeal to the current SCOTUS should be cause for alarm.

It is important to understand that the SCOTUS reviews cases appealed from lower courts on basis of their procedural propriety. The SCOTUS does not look at virgin cases, rather looks at the job lower courts have done in adjudicating, on basis of legal process and procedure. Therefore, a SCOTUS appointee should ideally have a perfect track record of cases appealed to SCOTUS, adjudicated as confirmed. Sodomizer has anything but the ideal, being confirmed in only 1 of 3 cases appealed.

Perhaps this lousy track record is the result of judicial incompetence, or perhaps it is the result of judicial activism. In either case, it makes her unsuitable for appointment. She just doesn't have the ability or willingness to do the job as it is defined. Appointing such a loser to the highest court would undermine the right of judicial appeal for decades to come.

Case in point in Sodomizer's judicial history: a recent ruling in which Sodomizer declared that the 2nd Amendment is not incorporated upon the States, severally. Her decision was based upon Cruishank. Trouble with this is, that Cruishank predates the 14th Amendment, which was specifically written to address the State's abuse of civil liberty by selective denial of certain of the inalienable rights written into the 10 Amendments to the Constitution.

So, her decision sets judicial prudence back more than 100 years, allowing for abuse of civil rights that the Congress specifically prohibited by the adoption of the 14th Amendment by Consitutional Convention (75% majority). Her decision flies in the face of case law established since the adoption of the 14th. Her decision either demonstrates her failure to understand legal and judicial principle, or her unwillingness to recognise it.

This case is being appealed to the SCOTUS, and is already unbased by the finding in Heller of 2006 in which Cruishank is described as "outdated and invalid". Will Sodomizer recuse herself from the hearing of the case (assuming that she is appointed)? I doubt it, as she is a liberal judicial activist. In any case, the decision will be overturned by the same majority that handed down Heller.

The result of the shame of an overturned ruling in her own hand? A complete and utter loss of credibility that can only equal FAIL. She will be a lame duck justice.

[mawilson 2,133]

I'm surprise that they haven't nominated an Asian to the bench.

They have

[Ban Hammer 14,569]

I'm surprise that they haven't nominated an Asian to the bench.

They have