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www.law.cornell.edu/supct/author.php?thomas

From Cornell's Law School - the Supreme Court collection

"Writings by Justice Thomas" including opinions & concurrences

I was in no way being racist or sexest nor implying that is the reason she was chosen. That is not and never should be the reason she was picked. She was chosen on merit alone. My intent was to express the fact that finally a quailfied person is considered no matter what their sex or race is. We all know that it has not always been that way. In fact the majority of men in this country would have wanted a white male in the position no matter how many women were more quailified. It is finally getting like the old cigarette commercials for women. "You've come a long way baby" and I could not be happier.

OMG, lovesit, you are as bad as i was with stcardinalfan
GAS is gasoline, LOL

i hope this is not a dumb question, when something is brought before the SC, doesn't it come down to their interpretation of the law?? isn't that why they sometimes disagree?

online.wsj.com/article/SB124338457658756731.html

Great Wall Street Journal article:

In a speech published in the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal in 2002, Judge Sotomayor offered her own interpretation of this jurisprudence. "Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases," she declared. "I am . . . not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, . . . there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."

We quote at such length because, even more than her opinions, these words are a guide to Ms. Sotomayor's likely behavior on the High Court. She is a judge steeped in the legal school of identity politics. This is not the same as taking justifiable pride in being the first Puerto Rican-American nominated to the Court, as both she and the President did yesterday. Her personal and family stories are admirable. Italian-Americans also swelled at the achievement of Justice Antonin Scalia, as Jewish-Americans did at the nomination of Benjamin Cardozo.

But these men saw themselves as judges first and ethnic representatives second. Judge Sotomayor's belief is that a "Latina woman" is by definition a superior judge to a "white male" because she has had more "richness" in her struggle. The danger inherent in this judicial view is that the law isn't what the Constitution says but whatever the judge in the "richness" of her experience comes to believe it should be.
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i remember watching those hearings with anita hill, fell on the ice, had a broken leg and had nothing else to do, it was riveting, she was very credible, i don't think anyone could make up what she had to say, way too many details and to have to testify on national TV, who would want to do that to themselves? i NEVER thought for a minute he wouldn't get confirmed, people get away with crimes all the time, can you say OJ or robert blake?

G. Gordon Liddy: Let's Hope That The Key Conferences Aren't When She's Menstruating'

Posted: 29 May 2009 03:07 PM PDT

He calls her a racist too. Keep it up guys.

LIDDY: Let’s hope that the key conferences aren’t when she’s menstruating or something or just before she’s going to menstruate. That would really be bad....

beautiful

For those who care I would like to share some of the info attained by me from the Democrat National Committee:

patricia --

President Obama hit a home run with his nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court -- and not just because she's the "woman who saved baseball" by ending the strike in 1995, nor simply because she would be the first Latina ever to serve on the high court.

It was a home run because in her three-decade career as a prosecutor, judge, private litigator and law professor, she has time and again earned bipartisan praise as one of America's finest legal minds. And it was the right choice because Judge Sotomayor -- herself born and raised in a South Bronx housing project -- has summed up the American dream in her own incredible story and never once forgotten how the law affects our daily lives.

Now her historic nomination goes to the Senate. I know that process well, and I can tell you that the debate of the coming weeks and months will be shaped by the public response in the next few hours and days. It's critical that the Senate and the public clearly see where the American people stand.

Experience: She would start with more federal judicial experience than any new Justice in a century.

Brilliance: She’s studied and taught at America’s top universities, and is widely regarded as one of our nation’s finest legal minds.

Perseverance: Born and raised in a South Bronx public housing project, Judge Sotomayor has broken barriers all her life, honing a common-sense understanding of how the law affects our daily lives.

VERY impressive....