In his weekly radio and internet address, President Obama calls on Congress to move quickly to confirm Judge Sonia Sotomayor as Supreme Court justice. The president reminds us of Sotomayor's rise from humble roots and praises her long legal career, saying, "There has not been a nominee in several generations who has brought the depth of judicial experience to this job that she offers."
Even as she has reached the heights of her profession, she has never forgotten where she began. She has faced down barriers, overcome difficult odds, and lived the American dream. As a Justice of the Supreme Court, she will bring not only the experience acquired over the course of a brilliant legal career, but the wisdom accumulated over the course of an extraordinary journey – a journey defined by hard work, fierce intelligence, and the enduring faith that, in America, all things are possible.
Obama also has a message for those on the right working overtime to try and smear Sotomayor:
There are, of course, some in Washington who are attempting to draw old battle lines and playing the usual political games, pulling a few comments out of context to paint a distorted picture of Judge Sotomayor's record. But I am confident that these efforts will fail; because Judge Sotomayor's seventeen-year record on the bench – hundreds of judicial decisions that every American can read for him or herself – speak far louder than any attack; her record makes clear that she is fair, unbiased, and dedicated to the rule of law. As a fellow judge on her court, appointed by Ronald Reagan, said recently, "I don't think I'd go as far as to classify her in one camp or another. I think she just deserves the classification of outstanding judge."
They make a big deal of her life experiences. That didn't matter for Miguel Estrada. Or for Clarence Thomas for that matter. E-mail your senator NO TO SOTOMAYOR.
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Chico
4:58PM May 30th 2009
latinos, e-mail your senators.
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victorlazlo58
2:25PM May 30th 2009
Headline should have read "Obama PIMPS Sotomayor".
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Chico
4:21PM May 30th 2009
Obama got elected, and he can a point any body he chooses. There is nothing you can do about victer but run your mouth.
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Chico
4:40PM May 30th 2009
Please, do not be bitter victor. Obama clearly won and can a point anybody he chooses. There is nothing you can do about it but run your mouth. Latinos will have justice. It is a proud day.
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victorlazlo58
7:04PM May 30th 2009
Whats the matter Chico, your welfare check and food stamps not enough this month to feed your 6 little illiterate urchins? "Latinos will have justice" my ass. You want justice, why didn't you keep your dumbass in Mexico where you belong? Oh, it's because there IS no justice in Mexico, or jobs, or working sewers, or breathable air, or a clean water supply, or, well, hell, I could go on all day. My buddies chihuahua dog named Chico is smarter than you, and he's got dog Alzheimers. She's a racist, leftist bitch, and so are you, when you're in your usual environment that is, prison.
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lolabull
2:47PM May 30th 2009
So it's only the right that's "playing political games as usual" huh? So I suppose I'm to believe then that there's nothing politcal about Obama's SC nominee then? Yeah right, and I'ma da Pope too.
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josephzman63
2:59PM May 30th 2009
Sixty percent of her "judgements" are overturned! How qualified can she be if more than half of her decisions are overturned?!?
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Pundit
8:29PM May 30th 2009
Are You RW Bozos Smarter Than a Yale Law Grad?
Of the thousands of writen opinions, just 5 were forwarded for SCOTUS review. SCOTUSBLOG, "Since joining the Second Circuit in 1998, Sotomayor has authored over 150 opinions, addressing a wide range of issues, in civil cases".
Even if we do not count the opinions she has authored in criminal, rather than civil, cases, that means the Supreme Court's reversal rate is not 60 percent, but at most 2 percent -- 3 cases out of 150
A) Obviously not! as it took you longer than a nanosecond to post the above... meanwhile 2/3 of Hispanics already voted for Pres. Obama with more on the way!
The demographics of the country are now the least favorable for Republicans that they’ve ever been.
According to the Census Bureau minorities will make up a majority of the U.S. population by 2050.
This is a problem as the Republican party has made use of race politics to disenfranchise African Americans and used anti-immigration rhetoric alienated Hispanic voters.
By its failure to reach minorities with a comprehensive message according to the latest polls:
The Republican Party is now 88% white and has a party identification of only 13% Solid Core with 7% Not very likely Republican Voters, the lowest in over a quarter century.
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Kgreene
9:24PM May 30th 2009
Little Chrissy thinks he's a journalist? I can quote or paraphrase a speech also. Thanks for the waste of time. Why don't you ask the fire fighters of New Haven, Conn what they think of DeSotomayer.
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WADE....
3:24PM May 30th 2009
Obama Touts Sotomayor's Experience?
I think the closet-muslim left out a few things.....?
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jparchery02
4:12PM May 30th 2009
so the pimp chairman obama is fluffing up his whore to make her look good to all his democrat johns , hey chairman obama ....fvck you and the camel you rode in on
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Truth
4:26PM May 30th 2009
By referring to the "usual political games" is Obama talking about his own behaviour when he was a Senator and tried to block the nominations of Roberts and Alito, even though he acknowledged that they were well qualified? Obama is trying desperately to accomplish several things:
1) pander to Hispanic voters who have noticed the paucity of hispanic appointees in his admin.
2)appoint a radical marxist, racist judge that matches his own views.
3)force Republicans to oppose a Hispanic, thereby alienating the Hispanic vote.
4)satisfy the demands of his puppetmaster, George Soros, who supports the ultra racist, Marxist La Raza, which Sotomayor is a member of.
5)hurry her nomination through before the Supreme Court rules next month on the New Haven firefighter reverse discrimination case that she famously ruled against, and has been criticized for by her LIBERAL JUDICIAL PEERS.
As Damon Root points out in Reason, her record is quite worrisome not just for bias, but also for competence: Last month, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Ricci v. Destefano, which centered on charges of reverse discrimination at the New Haven, Connecticut fire department. In 2003 the department administered a test to fill 15 captain and lieutenant vacancies, but when the results came in, no African Americans made the cut (14 whites and one Hispanic earned the top scores). In response to local pressure, the city then refused to certify the results and decided instead to leave the positions open until a suitable new test was developed. This prompted a lawsuit from a group of white firefighters who had been denied promotion, including lead plaintiff Frank Ricci, a 34-year-old dyslexic who says he spent months preparing for the now-voided test by listening to audiotape study guides as he drove to work. Ricci’s suit was initially thrown out at the district court level, prompting an appeal to the Second Circuit. At that point Sotomayor joined in an unsigned opinion embracing the district court’s analysis without offering any analysis of its own. This prompted fellow Second Circuit Judge Jose Cabranes—a liberal Democrat appointed by President Bill Clinton—to issue a stern rebuke. “The opinion contains no reference whatsoever to the constitutional claims at the core of this case,” Cabranes wrote. “This perfunctory disposition rests uneasily with the weighty issues presented by this appeal.” It’s an important point. Ricci gets at the very heart of the debate over whether the Constitution should be interpreted as a colorblind document. As the liberal legal commenter Emily Bazelon noted at Slate, “If Sotomayor and her colleagues were trying to shield the case from Supreme Court review, her punt had the opposite effect. It drew Cabranes’ ire, and he hung a big red flag on the case, which the Supreme Court grabbed.” Given that the Court is likely to side with Ricci and his fellow plaintiffs, Sotomayor’s silent endorsement of New Haven’s reverse discrimination is certain to come back to haunt her during her confirmation hearings.
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WADE....
4:35PM May 30th 2009
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! sounds familiar In his weekly radio and internet address, President Obama calls on Congress to move quickly~~~~~ Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!
Looks like he trying to PUSH HER ASS THROUGH LIKE THE STIMULUS.....
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mayabelle1107
4:52PM May 30th 2009
Government owned industry and banking. Forced regulatory controls on open markets, investments and personal wealth. Massive increase in government employees (the only sector of the workforce Gaining employment). Appointments of Czars and Czarinas in positions created to monitor American citizens for the common good. $4,000,000,000,000 budget in an economic recession. Installation of activist judges to The Supreme Court who, in her own words, admitted that appeals courts make policy (she is now a member of the largest appeals court on planet Earth)..... Call it what you will, but it's a hell of a lot closer to Bolshevic policy than the one Thomas Jefferson had in mind.
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Chico
5:09PM May 30th 2009
There is nothing you can do about it. Judge Sotomayor will be a CJ. Obama is for the Latinos in the country.
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victorlazlo58
7:08PM May 30th 2009
Obama is for any idiot that will vote for his communist ass policies, you stupid wetback. Swim back home, only this time, please drown.
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victorlazlo58
7:46PM May 30th 2009
Chupa mi verga, cabroncito. Pendejo. Tarangtado. Gago. Idioto. Puto. Chinga tu madre tambien.
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WADE....
8:35PM May 30th 2009
Sonia Sotomayor just like DAVID DUKE, ROBERT BYRD, UNCLE MENTOR REV. WRIGHT and HUSSEIN OBAMA HIMSELF.....
Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court SENORITA Radical Activist: Strong ties to (La Raza), the Latino answer to the KKK...... Our New Supreme Court appointee and SELF-PROFESSED ADVOCATE of La Raza APPROVES of the REFORMATION of the United States, the creation of a separate Chicano country, and widespread ethnic cleansing.
President Obama’s appointment of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court is blatantly racist. Even members of the Hispanic community AGREE.
Empathize This ......
Sen. Jon Kyl said to filibuster Obama's ass if he tries to follow through on his pledge to nominate someone who takes into account human suffering and employs EMPATHY from the bench. He's planning to block Obama's Far left-loonie commie pick that falls outside his definition of the mainstream.
Republican Senators are said to jeopardize their seats if they vote to support an ANTI-GUN RADICAL ACTIVIST for the Supreme Court. And thats how it should be, they work for us....IF THEY DON'T DO WHAT'S EXPECTED OF THEM THEY RISK STANDING IN THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE...........
'Sotomayor does not believe that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applies to individuals.'
Short video...........very powerful, Suzanna Gratia-Hupp stuns lawmakers at the very end.
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Raging Rollin
5:59PM May 30th 2009
Obama:
Let him flush us down the toilet We’ll be swimming with the mullet We’ll all be bottom-feeders When he’s done; He calls it redistribution But it ain’t in the constitution Think Pelosi and Reid Have got him on the run.