Sonia Sotomayer

[Bob]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/us/politics/27court.html?hp Obama Selects Sotomayor for Court


By PETER BAKER and JEFF ZELENY
Published: May 26, 2009

WASHINGTON ? President Obama has decided to nominate the federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, choosing a daughter of Puerto Rican parents raised in Bronx public housing projects to become the nation?s first Hispanic justice, officials said Tuesday.

 

[Bob]

listen to the sounds of teeth grinding

 

[6thGen]

The only interesting thing is that Obama isn't spending political capital on this. A few on the left think of her as their Miers. I thought he was going to go with Kagan or Koh, and I don't think it's wise for him to save them for Stevens since I don't believe his approval ratings will improve between now and then. This isn't going to be very interesting.

 

[TooFarTampa]

The only interesting thing is that Obama isn't spending political capital on this. A few on the left think of her as their Miers. I thought he was going to go with Kagan or Koh, and I don't think it's wise for him to save them for Stevens since I don't believe his approval ratings will improve between now and then. This isn't going to be very interesting.

I read a TNR piece that was not very flattering but it didn't really resonate with me.

Personally, I am interested in having some uninteresting news for a couple of weeks. You? Besides, 6thgen, you know you will have the opportunity later to get worked up over another court pick.

 

[Jdarg]

I read a TNR piece that was not very flattering but it didn't really resonate with me.

Personally, I am interested in having some uninteresting news for a couple of weeks. You? Besides, 6thgen, you know you will have the opportunity later to get worked up over another court pick.

Not that it matters, but Elizabeth Hasselbeck didn't get her knickers all twisted over the Sotomayer pick. (I have the View as my background for cleaning the house today.)

 

[goofer]

Great choice , President Obama. What an incredible personal story and personal journey. She and Obama are soul mates. I don't understand your comment about Meirs and the left, 6th Gen. Meirs was clearly unqualified and an embarassmentas as a supreme court pick.

 

[Lynnie]

I like Sotomayor.

 

[kkddbb]

Empathy?

The President mentioned "Empathy" as a deciding factory. Are you kidding me? Since when does empathy decide the rule of law? Typical modern liberalism and as a recovering lib myself this is all too visible these days. Its not your crudentials that matter anymore, its your color, your race and if you grew up an alleged victim of american enterprise. A Supreme Justice is to make decisions based on the constitution and legislative law-period. Not because they have sympathy for the defendant or because perhaps the justice comes from the same background. She may have great crudentials and frankly Ive only been able to find out a small amount about her. But, the process in which the President appoints officials is cleary not based on crudentials or the ability to perform on the basis of written law. The kids (obama admin) have taken over the school (white house) and we will continue to see this kind of stuff. Would anyone fill a job position this way, of course not. Do I need to get into other appointee's by the President? The President certainly isnt teaching the nation by example with these appointee's thats for sure. And the circus continues......

 

[6thGen]

Great choice , President Obama. What an incredible personal story and personal journey. She and Obama are soul mates. I don't understand your comment about Meirs and the left, 6th Gen. Meirs was clearly unqualified and an embarassmentas as a supreme court pick.

With the Meirs reference I meant it is a letdown to many on the left who expected someone more persuasive to balance Scalia, like Koh. There were also knocks on her intelligence by some on the left. I honestly could not care less about her personal story or personal journey when it comes to qualification on the Court. I'm sure her memoires will be swell though.

 

[scooterbug44]

I find nothing wrong w/ citing "empathy" as an additional qualification. Having a soul and regard for other people is a plus IMO.

If it was the ONLY qualification, then I would quibble, but I don't think someone who spent more than a decade as a Constitutional Law Professor is taking a Supreme Court appointment lightly.