Could someone please tell me what's so bad about Sotomayor?

[cali]

What concerns you about her?

[devilgrrl]

1. Not concerned here.

eom

[walldude]

2. Me either...

Actually I did some reading on her last night and came away liking her more than I did when I started...

[Greyhound]

3. ?

I assume this is a response to something...
:shrug:

[cali]

8. I'm a little perplexed about all the complaining going on there about

Obama replacing Stevens.

[Greyhound]

12. OIC, thanks.

For once I really have no opinion on the issue. It's too early to start this fight.

[SPedigrees]

4. You're asking the wrong crowd. Ask the teabaggers and the party of no.

No complaints about Justice Sotomayor here.

[Cleita]

5. I'm fine with her.

As a matter of fact, I'm fine with any Supreme who knows his/her duties as a Justice and leaves politics out of it.

[FBaggins]

6. I have a tough time

consistently spelling her name correctly.

Can't think of anything else. Has someone complained?

[joeybee12]

7. I pronounce it wrong...damn her!!! n/t

[grantcart]

9. I am concerned that her personality and force of logic will have such

that Kennedy will have be moved to become a permanent member of the liberal coalition and that this results in Justice Scalia having multiple spontaneous intracranial hemmorage bursts that cause the dural mater to explode in blood and sepage from his nose, eye sockets, ears just as his face goes into a goulish contortion and his neck muscles lose control causing his head to slam down on the pen he was holding impaling on his right eye causing a further explosion of blood to spurt out into the chamber while the 7th grade civics class of Thomas Jefferson Junior High School under the direction of teacher Mrs. Simonson was visiting, traumatizing them for life thus ending the academic interest and career of one Billy Richardson who was destined to become Dr. William Richardson who in 2031 was going to announce the genetic brakethrough that was going to cure cancer.

Think of the children.

It could happen.

[ellenfl]

10. gross! eom

[cliffordu]

25. I can only pray to jaysus.

[Saturday]

11. I'm pretty sure she was the swing vote on

allowing corporations to be people. Correct me if I'm wrong anyone. That's a concern.

[cali]

13. you are completely wrong.

[tkmorris]

14. Nope. Kennedy.

[joeybee12]

17. You're wrong...and from her questioning when the case was heard...

...she was obviously very set against the Gang of Five's decision.

[blondeatlast]

22. I'm pretty (wait, no--COMPLETELY) sure you are wrong. nt

[HipChick]

15. What's really bad about her..

is that she reminds me that I should have studied harder in school..:spank: I might have got to where I was going in life a bit faster..

[Bitwit1234]

16. What the radicals see

is only the fact that she "was appointed by Obama"...that and that only.

[Omaha Steve]

18. Naw

Some speech she gave proved she is a racist against whites. She said rich whites can't understand poor in this country. I've herd it many times. But I hear a lot of nonsense from the right.

I think she is doing a wonderful job.

[Brickbat]

19. Nothing, so far.

[Overseas]

20. GOP appointed ultra-right justices we want to balance out. She is moderate.

I am glad she is on the court. She is brilliant and seems very fair, and I can imagine her becoming more liberal over time since she has that damn empathy the Republicans hate so much.

But the GOP has appointed some really extreme right wing judicial activists including Scalia, Alito and Roberts (people pretended he wasn't 100% pro-corporate because he looked all smiley and spoke calmly I guess) so we really need a very liberal justice to balance them out.

[cali]

21. We need a thoughtful Justice with a lot of intellectual fire power

who will vote with Sotomayor, Ginsberg and Breyer. And please point out where Sotomayor is too moderate.

[Overseas]

23. I'm not seeking an argument. Sotomayor was chosen because she is a thoughtful justice as you said.

I'm just explaining that if we are seeking a balanced court then we need a super liberal to balance out the super right wingers on there.

Sotomayor was chosen because she was a moderate. I don't want to look up all the discussion from back then right now. But she was selected because she couldn't be called a wild liberal. She fit the profile you described.

I'm just tired of Democrats taking the high road and choosing moderate people when the GOP has stacked the court with extremists like Scalia, Alito and smiley Roberts.

[cali]

24. Sotomayor is a liberal. There were plenty of indicators that this was so.

She's as liberal as Ginsberg, more liberal than Breyer.

[SPedigrees]

26. What is needed is to replace the RW extremists with moderates.

I'd love to see the court stacked with extremist liberals, but that aint gonna happen.

Does anyone have ages for the conservative justices? Replacing but one of them would shift the balance of power.