Sotomayor OK'ed

[Vulso]

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news...omayor.Senate/

Video in article.
WASHINGTON — Sonia Sotomayor won confirmation Thursday as the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, a history-making Senate vote that capped a summer-long debate heavy with ethnic politics and hints of high court fights to come.
The third woman in court history, she'll be sworn in Saturday as the 111th justice and the first nominated by a Democrat in 15 years.
The Senate vote was 68-31 to confirm Sotomayor, President Barack Obama's first Supreme Court nominee, with Democrats unanimously behind her but most Republicans lining up in a show of opposition both for her and for the president's standards for a justice.
The 55-year-old daughter of Puerto Rican parents was raised in a South Bronx housing project and educated in the Ivy League before rising to the highest legal echelons, spending the past 17 years as a federal judge. She watched the vote on TV at a federal courthouse in New York City, among friends and colleagues.
Republicans argued she'd bring personal bias and a liberal agenda to the bench. But Democrats praised Sotomayor as an extraordinarily qualified mainstream moderate and touted her elevation to the court as a milestone in the nation's journey toward greater equality and a reaffirmation of the American dream.

Does anyone NOT care about this?

[Tiberios]

I don't

[Generaal Van Heutsz]

I don't

You should, *even if you are not american but just a good person because a vile racist now sits in the US supreme court

[Dunecat]

You should, *even if you are not american but just a good person because a vile racist now sits in the US supreme court

Quaint, really.

[Phier]

Great a racist who I doubt has read the constitution. Swell.

[Admiral Piett]

Great a racist who I doubt has read the constitution. Swell.

Do you really think any of the members of Congress have even read the entire Constitution? Very few.

Anyway, this chick pisses me off because of her name. It's annoying.

Sotoy-mayor. Gah, it screws with me. All rise for the honorable Justice Sotojay.. Justice Sotoyomare.. gah...

[Tiberios]

You should, even if you are not american but just a good person because a vile racist now sits in the US supreme court

If she is as bad as some of you say, then yes I think I will have to.

It's just, I don't really know that much of how she is and such.

[Kamos]

No caring here, though it's always seemed more a publicity stunt than anything.

Obama and Congress - "Oh look at how progressive we are!"

[Jexiel]

I'm actually infuriated. I'm Latino/Hispanic (or whatever the hell my moronic people wants to call itself nowadays) and it feels these politidiots are patronizing me with their "1st latina" garbage as if to suggest the demographic could not achieve this in the past. But if you really gotta have your token ethnicity at least make sure is not a discriminatory one (yes, the "wise latina" comment did have discriminatory connotations).

[Hannibal the destroy]

I'm actually infuriated. I'm Latino/Hispanic (or whatever the hell my moronic people wants to call itself nowadays) and it feels these politidiots are patronizing me with their "1st latina" garbage as if to suggest the demographic could not achieve this in the past. But if you really gotta have your token ethnicity at least make sure is not a discriminatory one (yes, the "wise latina" comment did have discriminatory connotations).

QFT

[danzig]

I just wish they would stop calling her the first hispanic justice, she is the first female hispanic justice. Benjamin Cardozo was the first "hispanic" justice even if he rejected "hispanic culture" for jewish ties. Its like me pretending Im not half irish because I identify more with Italian side, Im still half irish regardless.

[Jexiel]

I just wish they would stop calling her the first hispanic justice, she is the first female hispanic justice. Benjamin Cardozo was the first "hispanic" justice even if he rejected "hispanic culture" for jewish ties. Its like me pretending Im not half irish because I identify more with Italian side, Im still half irish regardless.

How about, just another Justice? Why should ethnicity influence judicial reasoning?

[danzig]

Well yeah that would be nice but unfortunately this country doesnt work that way. I eager await for the media to announce the first one legged midget supreme court justice.

[nopasties]

besides her views on affirmative action--I did not hear any good criticism of the woman so good, hopefully she is competent and unbiased for her time in the supreme court

[danzig]

besides her views on affirmative action--I did not hear any good criticism of the woman so good, hopefully she is competent and unbiased for her time in the supreme court

She is nothing special but she isnt horrible or unqualified, her AA views ARE troubling (not to mention stupid on a universal scale) but she'll have no real impact on the court since she is basically replacing a liberal judge. There is nothing special about her that makes the hype about her warranted, she certainly isnt in the same league as Roberts hell not even the same galaxy.

[Jexiel]

She is nothing special but she isnt horrible or unqualified, her AA views ARE troubling (not to mention stupid on a universal scale) but she'll have no real impact on the court since she is basically replacing a liberal judge. There is nothing special about her that makes the hype about her warranted, she certainly isnt in the same league as Roberts hell not even the same galaxy.

All of this plus her veiled discriminatory views.

[ZaPPPa]

I just think it is interesting and concerning that people like McCain think Palin is qualified to be vice-president, but Sotomayor is not qualified to be a supreme court justice.

[Generaal Van Heutsz]

I just think it is interesting and concerning that people like McCain think Palin is qualified to be vice-president, but Sotomayor is not qualified to be a supreme court justice.

The fact that in 4 out of 6 cases she dealt with as an appeals court judge which came before the supreme court her decision was repealed says enough about her incompetence and this doesn't even take into consideration she is a vile racist.*

[Phier]

I just think it is interesting and concerning that people like McCain think Palin is qualified to be vice-president, but Sotomayor is not qualified to be a supreme court justice.

Elected vrs appointed.

I mean there were people who thought a junior senator should be president, who would have thunk it?

[justicar5]

Elected vrs appointed.

I mean there were people who thought a junior senator should be president, who would have thunk it?

I know who would have backed JFK?