Feedie at Southern Appeal gives his take on the Sotomayor nomination to the Supreme Court.
My take on the appointment? She’s the best of the worst. Judge Sotomayor will almost certainly be a reliably liberal vote on the hot-button social issues, but she’s not going to play a leading role in shaping the jurisprudence of the Court (like Judge Diane Wood almost certainly would have done). She’s a political pick, plain and simple. I think the GOP would be wise not to waste too much political capital (assuming it has any left) on opposing this appointment. Judge Sotomayor will be confirmed, and strongly opposing her will only further alienate Hispanic voters. This is not to say that I don’t think we should expose her for the penumbra lover and radical that she is. Indeed, I am all for it. But the bottom line for me is that the folks waiting on President Obama’s on-deck circle are far, far worse. Think of it like a professional wrestling match: Let’s get in a few blows, and then let Obama have his pick. There are hills to die on, and this seat isn’t one of them (especially given the dems’ fillibuster-proof advantage in the Senate).
She was raised Catholic and so far there is no information on whether she still practices her faith. With the information available so far I think Feddie is right, it could have been worse. But when it comes to the child in the womb one vote upholding abortion on demand is the same as another. Considering what seems to be her judicial philosophy it certainly appears to be one that would hold up the legal fiction of Roe v. Wade. Unlike Republicans, Democrats have been great at picking nominees who don’t “grow in office.” Here’s praying she will be a disappointment for the enemy of the child in the womb.
Update: “Judge Sotomayor was raised as a Catholic and attends church for family celebrations and other important events.” [source]
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For the record, “raised Catholic” and “attends church for IMPORTANT events” is code-speak for NOT CATHOLIC.
“Important events”? Like weekly Mass?
Change for the future!
How To STOP Sotomayor:
http://heyitsjustablogman.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-to-stop-sotomayor.html
And this is how Obama will make his mark. Forget the Supreme court…just think of all the federal judges he will appoint. And the brilliance of picking a hispanic woman. He is savvy. He knows what he is doing, and it is wonderful to watch.
Sitting on the Supreme Court is important. Those judges have the power to overturn Roe v. Wade. To take a cavalier attitude about her being the best of the worst is awful reasoning. Have our standards become that low. We should expect the best of the best.
I disagree with this. We are always “not wasting political capital” in opposing things we should oppose; but so far, I haven’t seen where all this political capital we are supposedly saving is doing us any good. On the contrary, I think we fritter away our political capital by not fighting when we should; and we should fight more often than we think. We have gotten into the bad habit of refusing to die on ANY hill. All we ever do is concede defeat, and it’s getting old.
I don’t see why the Republicans don’t adopt the same policy toward Democrat nominees that they have toward ours: fight and stonewall them at every turn. They deserve to be fought and stonewalled, every one of them.
Further alienate hispanics?
George Bush was a leader in placing Hispanics in high ranking government posts. The liberals worked furiously to destroy them.
John McCain, the architect of amnesty, ran as the Republican candidate and promised amnesty.
If these 2 men can not capture the hispanic vote, may we should recognize that pandering is not the way to win votes?
Oppose Sotomayor all the way. ‘Bork’ her. She is simply unqualified to be on the Supreme Court. Make this a clear debate on 3 issues
1) Abortion
2) Gay Marriage
3) Eminent Domain
4) Racist discrimination against whites
Those are what she stands for. That does not represent America or the Constitution.
“Raised Catholic” and “attends church for IMPORTANT events” is precisely the kind of Catholics that Obama likes and fills his royal court with, now he can add them to the Supreme Court, too.
They are the Catholics that overwhelmingly voted for this myth in sheep’s clothing.
interesting source
“Feedie”?
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I’m pretty certain confirmation is a foregone conclusion, but I do want the Republicans to make a lot of noise about the rank hypocrisy of the Democrats screaming “racism!” simply for wanting to vet The One’s judicial nominations when the Democrats subjected Bush judicial nominee Miguel Estrada to the most overtly and despicably racist treatment any judicial appointee has ever received in American jurisprudence, all because, as one Democrat put it, his conservative worldview meant he was “not Hispanic enough” to warrant support.
Sotomayor deserves to have her record held up to the light and scrutinized, though I’m not convinced the Republicans in the Senate have the moral courage to expose that record, or the hypocritical double-standard Democrats employ in the judicial confirmation process.
I do know one thing: Obama’s obsession with appointing heterodox “Catholics” for government posts is beyond annoying. I don’t understand why Catholics who should know better continue to give him the benefit of the doubt when it comes to his attitude towards Catholics.