Liz Cheney: Sotomayor Quote "Troubling"
Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, joins the ranks of several Republicans, including Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh, who are criticizing Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s quote on ethnicity and judgment. On today's “Washington Unplugged” with host Bob Schieffer, Cheney said she found the quote “troubling.”
In yet another, Schieffer – Cheney interview, the mother of five said, “if you switched around the designations in the quote, you know somebody's career would over.”
The Sotomayor quote in question came from a 2001 speech where the court nominee said, “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”
“I don't think there is place in this country for that kind of a perspective,” Cheney said, noting that President Obama himself advocates against racial preference. “I don't think we should be thinking about how judges reach determinations and reach decisions and making assertions like somebody from one ethnic group is going to be a better judge than someone from another ethnic group.”
Cheney admitted that it is politically probable that judge Sotomayor will be confirmed this summer to replace Justice David Souter on the bench, but she made clear that she will receive tough questioning.
“It is not something that I would have said,” she said. “I am sure that the judge will have to explain it in her confirmation hearings.”
Lately, Ms. Cheney has been an advocate for her father but in the future would she consider running for public office, as some conservatives have suggested?
“I don't have any plans right now but it is something that I think about and maybe one day -- we will see,” Cheney told Schieffer. She has five children and is helping her father write his memoir.
While she and her father may share a political ambition, what they do agree on is that Rush Limbaugh is more in “line” with Republican values than former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
The question was first asked to former Vice President Cheney on "Face the Nation."
“Rush really does line up more with where the Republican Party has traditionally been,” she said.
Watch this interview below as well as a debate on Sotomayor’s confirmation and an interview with the Council of Foreign Relations President Richard Haass:
In yet another, Schieffer – Cheney interview, the mother of five said, “if you switched around the designations in the quote, you know somebody's career would over.”
The Sotomayor quote in question came from a 2001 speech where the court nominee said, “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”
“I don't think there is place in this country for that kind of a perspective,” Cheney said, noting that President Obama himself advocates against racial preference. “I don't think we should be thinking about how judges reach determinations and reach decisions and making assertions like somebody from one ethnic group is going to be a better judge than someone from another ethnic group.”
Cheney admitted that it is politically probable that judge Sotomayor will be confirmed this summer to replace Justice David Souter on the bench, but she made clear that she will receive tough questioning.
“It is not something that I would have said,” she said. “I am sure that the judge will have to explain it in her confirmation hearings.”
Lately, Ms. Cheney has been an advocate for her father but in the future would she consider running for public office, as some conservatives have suggested?
“I don't have any plans right now but it is something that I think about and maybe one day -- we will see,” Cheney told Schieffer. She has five children and is helping her father write his memoir.
While she and her father may share a political ambition, what they do agree on is that Rush Limbaugh is more in “line” with Republican values than former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
The question was first asked to former Vice President Cheney on "Face the Nation."
“Rush really does line up more with where the Republican Party has traditionally been,” she said.
Watch this interview below as well as a debate on Sotomayor’s confirmation and an interview with the Council of Foreign Relations President Richard Haass:
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See all 65 CommentsTo paraphase Shawn "NeoNazi" Hannity, and his "Liberal Translation" machine:
"GOP Translation" - It's OK for a conservative white man to speak about and include his race in judicial decision process but not OK for a Hispanic woman to do the same.
Who is the real racist here???
Republicans amaze me - here you have a women who went to Yale without a famous last name like Bush and made it -
Am i the only one getting totally disgusted with the GOP?
out of over 300 rulings in over eleven years on the circuit court , only eight have been appealed to the supreme court. out of those eight, five have been overturned. not exactly the 80% that you claimed, eh?
seriously--we are paying attention to what cheney's daughter says because....?
According to MediaMatters.org, the Supreme Court typically reverses about 75 percent of circuit court decisions that it chooses to rule upon. So, Sotomayors's 60 percent reversal rate is actually BELOW AVERAGE.
SHE IS NOT AN "ACTIVIST JUDGE" and you repukes are just plain SILLY for claiming she is. No wonder people are leaving the repuke party in droves!
You HAVE JUST GOT TO STOP LISTENING TO RUSH and the other imbecillic "entertainers". Sotomayor has been over-ruled just 5 times in her entire career. That is NOT 80%. You are either an EXTRAVAGENT LIAR, or an imbecile, because you keep repeating the druggie's trashy lies on these boards.
Now, if you had ANY BRAINS AT ALL, you'd check out the real facts. They are: only 1.3% of judge Sotomayor's rulings have EVER been overturned by anybody. But three of her appellate decisions have been overturned by Scalia's ultra-conservative supreme court. The supreme court ONLY hears cases they want to hear. And Scalia likes to stick it to the "liberals" and to the moderates and so he picks cases that he can use to CREATE LAWS that he likes. SO, if you only look at Sotomayor's cases that got appealed to the supreme court, then 60% (3 of 5) were overturned. The 80% you made up doesn't even apply to those few cases.
So, jonesjep, the FACT is: ONE POINT THREE PERCENT OF HER RULINGS HAVE BEEN OVERTURNED. SHE IS NOT AN "ACTIVIST JUDGE" and you are an imbecile for believing that drug addict, Rushed ********.
LMAO!!!
Why weren't you repukes all upset when republican supreme court member, Alito, said virtually the SAME THING?
I'll tell you why:
1. You can only say or think what that drug addict, Rush Limburger, tells you to think and say.
2. You can't find any real reason to object to Sotomayer because:
a) republicans nominated her for her current job
b) republicans approved her for her current job
c) she is very intelligent and very well educated
d) she is more qualified, based on her experience, than ANYONE on the supreme court now, or for the past 70 years!
e) she is really a very moderate "liberal", and the farthest thing possible from an "activist judge" (unlike your hero, Tony Scalia, who twists and turns the law in incredible ways to support whatever his political and religious dogmas demand of him.)
ALSO, as it turns out, if you actually read what Sotomayer said, in its entirety, rather than get your soundbites from the drug king, you'll see that she is ABSOLUTELY NOT A RACIST, and she HAS NEVER RULED ANY CASE BASED ON ANYTHING OTHER THAN HER UNDERSTANDING OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE LAW.
Whine and complain all you want, repukes... it isn't going to do you any good whatsoever. With less than 20% of the country admitting to being republican, and the number dwindling every day, thanks to your propensity for alienating large groups of the population (e.g., all the latinos don't like being called "racists"), you can bet your bottom dollar that the GOP is toast.
GOP: Dead Man Walking!
This woman was selected for 2 reason. She is a radical lib and a hispanic woman. She was not even the most qualified in her district.
we tawk ship where mark twain sat......oh yes,,,I feenishd seconal in the spully bea yesday...
Racial comments and class warfare are the hallmarks of the Democratic party.
Posted by Mixolydian8X11 at 12:11 PM : May 29, 2009
You bet, Fox and the whole Republican cabal of losers, are spending a lot of money to dig up dirt on Obama's pick.
They in turn are fast losing the hispanic vote for 2010, and digging their own grave. They are already on their last legs to the trashcan of history, seems they want to get there by leaps and bounds. Pathetic losers.
What happened, did they run out of men on the street interviews?
Every numbnut has read the full quote by now, and knows that it was in response to Justice Day O' Connor's remark -- not some random outburst. by a woman determined to prove how much better suited she is to judge suffering, injustice and inequality than a white man protected by the color of his skin, his inherent connections, and the size of his bank account...[hmmm, even if she were accurate...it would be 'politically incorrect' to say so, right?;-) ]
Liz Cheney should keep her mouth shut [as she did all of those 8 TROUBLING years during her evil dad's rape and pillage of the American economy with his oil and war agendas.
Liz should just crawl back into bed, and stay under the covers where clearly she does her 'best' and most effective work...procreating.
And CBS, please STOP giving the Cheneys 'airtime' -- so that we can all go back to our jobs....until then we will all be obliged to blog them into oblivion...
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