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Pro-Life Senator to Sotomayor: 'I Apologize'
By Day 3 of Sonia Sotomayor's nomination hearings, pro-life protesters had interrupted the proceedings three times, jumping to their feet and yelling at Sotomayor and senators until the Capitol Police restrained and removed them, still screaming, from the committee room.
Wednesday, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), himself a staunch pro-life advocate, apologized to Sotomayor for the outbursts, telling her he admired her composure and explaining, "Anybody who values life like I do, and is pro-life, recognizes that the way you change minds is not you yell at people. It's you love them and care about their concerns and bring them to a level of understanding, not condemnation."
Coburn then questioned the judge repeatedly about when abortion should be illegal, although the two never seemed to reach a level of understanding. Video of the apology is below.
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Wednesday, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), himself a staunch pro-life advocate, apologized to Sotomayor for the outbursts, telling her he admired her composure and explaining, "Anybody who values life like I do, and is pro-life, recognizes that the way you change minds is not you yell at people. It's you love them and care about their concerns and bring them to a level of understanding, not condemnation."
Coburn then questioned the judge repeatedly about when abortion should be illegal, although the two never seemed to reach a level of understanding. Video of the apology is below.
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Patricia Murphy writes "The Capitolist" column for PoliticsDaily.com. She is the founder of Citizen Jane Politics, a non-partisan website for women... more
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Somber
12:27PM Jul 15th 2009
Respectable for him to do so.
Cynics will always view any response Sotomayor gives in the worst possible light. I trust Obama's choice and will give her the benefit of the doubt. We've certainly done far far worse.
Cynics will always view any response Sotomayor gives in the worst possible light. I trust Obama's choice and will give her the benefit of the doubt. We've certainly done far far worse.
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mayabelle1107
12:28PM Jul 15th 2009
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." - Thomas Jefferson
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(4) pjbl2223
3:25PM Jul 15th 2009
Might be nice to put President Jefferson's comment into its proper time frame. I believe he was talking more about the care Divine Kings provided...not Constitutionally elected Presidents nearly 200 years later.
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(1) lolabull
12:53PM Jul 15th 2009
Well I suppose I can live with Sotomayor's new position as a Supreme Court Justice if I have to, I'll just have to do what I did when Barack Obama became President and what I've virtually almost every day since, I'll just have to continue to lower my expectations is all.
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(4) PAT ENENMOH
3:09PM Jul 15th 2009
You still have expectations after Bush?
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(5) mayabelle1107
3:32PM Jul 15th 2009
No, he was referring to taxation without representation. He was also referring to limited government intervention into the public marketplace. Here's another one from the Honorable Mr. Jefferson, and no he wasn't referring to Divine Kings, he is referring to fiscal responsibility and not being dependent on a government for your existence and happiness......
"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world." - Thomas Jefferson ....... Seems the ex-head of Harvard Law Review has never heard of this Jefferson guy, spent too much time reading Marx and Debs.
"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world." - Thomas Jefferson ....... Seems the ex-head of Harvard Law Review has never heard of this Jefferson guy, spent too much time reading Marx and Debs.
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(1) mercuriojoe
2:35PM Jul 15th 2009
Wht can't she just answer the question? If she were a judge on the bench you can bet she would demand an answer!
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(0) David S.
3:12PM Jul 15th 2009
FYI -- neither John Roberts nor Samuel Alito (both nominated by George W. Bush) answered the question on their view on abortion rights either in their confirmation hearings. And I am betting they were never asked by a Republican Senator, either. In fact, John Roberts called Roe v. Wade "settled law." Sotomayor said the same thing. A judge is not supposed to answer hypothetical cases. Roe v. Wade is the law of the land; if it is challenged, Sotomayor will deal with it then, as will Roberts and Alito and the other six Supreme Court judges.
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(6) shelleyg8r
2:45PM Jul 15th 2009
Why should she answer the question? The personal beliefs of a judge should be irrelevant. If their job is to apply the law to the facts, their personal beliefs are of no concern. It's the same thing that allows me as an attorney to defend a hatemonger who doesn't share my views, because I still believe that every person is entitled to their best defense under our Constitution.
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