Comments on: Sotomayor Promises "Fidelity to the Law"

Supreme Court Nominee Shares Her Personal Life Experiences but Promises Decisions Based on Impartial Justice

[hungry1968-16]

by beaumuff July 13, 2009 2:00 PM PDT
I think Paris Hilton would have been the logical choice.







Paris Hilton would have been a better choice than Harriet Meiers!!

[erb0087]

"From the beginning, the American Philosophical Society attracted some of America's finest minds. Early members included George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Paine, David Rittenhouse, Owen Biddle, Benjamin Rush, James Madison, Michael Hillegas, and John Marshall. The Society also drew philosophers from other nations as members, including Alexander von Humboldt, the Marquis de Lafayette, Baron von Steuben, Tadeusz Kosciuszko, and Yekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova-Dashkova.

...Illustrious names have continually been added to the membership roster, reflecting the society's scope. Charles Darwin, Robert Frost, Louis Pasteur, Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, John James Audubon, Linus Pauling, Margaret Mead, Maria Mitchell, and Thomas Edison became members of the Society. The Society continues to attract names of high renown today, with a current membership list (as of the April 2005 elections) of 920 members, including 772 Resident members (citizens or residents of the United States) and 148 Foreign members representing more than two dozen countries." - Wikipedia

And in 2002 Sonia Sotomayor was elected to membership.

[erb0087]

Sonia Sotomayor was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2002.

The American Philosophical Society was founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin, a wise white male.

[erb0087]

"From the beginning, the American Philosophical Society attracted some of America's finest minds. Early members included George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Paine, David Rittenhouse, Owen Biddle, Benjamin Rush, James Madison, Michael Hillegas, and John Marshall. The Society also drew philosophers from other nations as members, including Alexander von Humboldt, the Marquis de Lafayette, Baron von Steuben, Tadeusz Kosciuszko, and Yekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova-Dashkova.

...Illustrious names have continually been added to the membership roster, reflecting the society's scope. Charles Darwin, Robert Frost, Louis Pasteur, Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, John James Audubon, Linus Pauling, Margaret Mead, Maria Mitchell, and Thomas Edison became members of the Society. The Society continues to attract names of high renown today, with a current membership list (as of the April 2005 elections) of 920 members, including 772 Resident members (citizens or residents of the United States) and 148 Foreign members representing more than two dozen countries." - Wikipedia

And in 2002 Sonia Sotomayor was elected to membership.

[beaumuff]

I think Paris Hilton would have been the logical choice.

[tmittelstaed]

I never thought i'd see Roseanne Barr confirmed to the US Supreme Court.

[culturechang]

Fidelity to which law? Constitutional law or partisan political legislation by one part or another. The problem is that few of them really understand the role as judge. Judges are supposed to protect the people from the govt. That is the check and balance. Few judges realize that.

[drsam8]

Senators Diane Feinstein and Sheldon Whitehouse said it like it is: Republicans shout about what they call the "judicial activism" of the other side. Sen. Whitehouse (Rhode Island) made a most forceful argument for progressive judges, exposing Republican hypocrisy. Democratic Presidents have tended to be overly cautious, even mildly timid. Republican Presidents have acted boldly to install justices with extreme right wing views. They have used the euphemism of "strict constructionists" to secure their wishes. Thus have they installed unabashed rightists such as Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Alito. Democratic appointees to the bench are mildly left of center. The court cannot become a citadel for ordinary citizens, especially minorities (gays, lesbians, ethnics, women, religious groups, atheists, etc) can ultimately retreat if they ignore issues of equity and fundamental justice. That is what is wrong with the current composition of the Supreme Court! Right wing judges routinely trumpet a hard vision of ideological finality. Yet, the law is not mathematics with very predictable results. Rightists, unlike Democrats, deny that they put their own particular gloss, cultural predispositions and philosophic orientation in their interpretation of the constitution. Hamiton was wrong when he asserted in No. 78 of The Federalist that the judiciary has "neither force nor will, but merely judgement." Frankfurther reminded us that "It is the Constitution we are interpreting, not an insurance clause in small type," that "it is inadmissibly a narrow conception to "disregard the gloss which life has written upon them."" Therefore, empathy and life experiences matter. Since the Constitution is not exhaustive, it leaves judges with lots of room to do what they want!

[erb0087]

Sonia Sotomayor is NOT a racist.

That is absurd.

"La Raza" refers to the whole human race, blended together.

And anyway, how could she be an Hispanic racist, with a Norwegian first name like "Sonia" ?

[TheMasses0009]

She's a double-blind rat in a bad experiment.

[erb0087]

Sotomayor Promises "Fidelity to the Law"
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That isn't right.

She shouldn't be showing favoritism to one mutual fund company over the others.

She should put all her Fidelity investments in a blind trust.

[TheMasses0009]

She's a double-blind rat in a bad experiment.

[erb0087]

Lindsey Graham set a good tone of courtesy and civility, despite his differences with Sonia Sotomayor.

He seems like a very good type of Southern Gentleman.

[stuart2020]

They are just pathetic. I don't know how else to describe the republicKKKans.

[South-of-Heaven]

Yeah Stu,
They are the Party that yells Racist this and Racist that on the way to a Cross Burning.

[stuart2020]

They are just pathetic. I don't know how else to describe the republicKKKans.

[ffoulkes-2009]

Stuart,

Why do you hate Conservatives so much? I am a conservative and a Republican. I have never done anything to you, but you call me names all the time. I do believe you need to know an individual before you call the entire group he belongs to names, don't you?

[stuart2020]

Hey! You need a job? FAUX News is hiring biased, racist commentators to help further their agenda at turning America off indefinitely.

[stuart2020]

The arrogance of these neo-conservative fools never ceases to amaze me. The most racists party ever know to mankimnd is now gonna lecture Democrats on racism!

ROTFLMFAOBTAU!!!!!!!

[stuart2020]

The GOP are easy wimps. Cowards. Just big fat racists mouths. That's all they are besides being un-American.

[South-of-Heaven]

Nflaguy , dude your Sheet has a stain on it...

[quapawsix]

If she's promising Fidelity then she has to prosecute Dick Cheney, GW Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and Condalissa Rice for War Crimes against Humanity and Treason against The People of the United States of America.

[South-of-Heaven]

Looks like she is doing really well in defending herself from the GOP.

[stuart2020]

The GOP are easy wimps. Cowards. Just big fat racists mouths. That's all they are besides being un-American.

[credibility2]

Her co-decision against the white and Hispanic firefighters who passed a test, which blacks weren't capable of passing, greatly contradicts this assertion of hers. Fortunately the punitive and racist co-decision was over-turned recently by the Supreme Court. So much for Sotomayor's convenient misrepresentations of the facts.

[stuart2020]

Hey! You need a job? FAUX News is hiring biased, racist commentators to help further their agenda at turning America off indefinitely.

[quapawsix]

Well what did you expect now everyone together MOO because to people like her think us poor DUMB A$$ We the People can't Think for ourselves. And of course see in she' a part of that same old politics that goes on in Washington regardless of which party it is they get the GOLD MINE WE GET THE SHAFT.