American Bar Association Praises Sotomayor

Unanimously Tabs Supreme Court Pick As "Well Qualified"; Highest Rating From Lawyer Group

(CBS/ AP)  The American Bar Association says Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is well qualified to serve on the high court.

The ABA committee that reviewed her qualifications came out with that unanimous rating of the federal appeals court judge. That finding is in a letter to White House lawyer Greg Craig that was released Tuesday.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to begin hearings on the nomination next week. Sotomayor is President Barack Obama's choice to replace retired Justice David Souter.

"You typically don’t get promoted though the federal courts unless you are indeed well qualified," CBS News chief legal analyst Andrew Cohen says.

"The Bush White House, remember, famously discarded the ABA recommendation system for federal judges but the Obama Administration has embraced the tradition and clearly officials are delighted that their Supreme Court nominee got very good grades. This only helps her chances of getting confirmed," Cohen adds.

The last time the ABA reviewed Sotomayor's qualifications, a majority on ABA panel rated her as well-qualified, but it was not unanimous.

[toldyouso29]

Praise of any sort from the ABA is suspicious unto itself. Does anyone know any lawyer or judge or court system that is not rife with lies, corruption and deceit? To get their praise means she could play the game--decent people would 'shudder' if they really knew what those games entailed and who all they hurt.

[ralpherus]

americanbar association (deliberately left out the space, so as not to confuse folks with my thinking they are actually AMERICANS) is a bunch of slimy greedy selfish evil pigs who love to twist the law and obfuscate things to their own skulduggerous advantage. They are the reason we have not had tort reform, and so medical bills are through the roof and in orbit. They are the reason we have cheap slime thieving fascist traitor murder pig democrats in control of the government, even though we are overwhelmingly by numbers CONSERVATIVE. Are you an American,or a democrat?

[gravyboat4000]

Ah yes, one of the brainwashed. You, most likely, have a ceramic bust of an eagle draped in the American flag in your living room. Right? Because ONLY you can be a REAL American, own the flag, the eagle, the military, and right. Right?

Goose stepping lemming.

[ralpherus]

Let's forget racist baiting stuff- there are those on both sides...because, human nature is human nature, and some folks find reasons in their heart for many things, good, bad, and unexplainable... What I want to read from someone, is their naming ONE PROBLEM our country has, that is not directly caused by democrats. Any creative writers out there care to try?

[nanc12]

Iraq

[gravyboat4000]

The economy

[frjim45]

I perceive that the ABA recommendation is discountable because of their record. We have a Eurosocialist President whose view of America
closely mirrors what the ABA has showhn to be theirs,and I think they
could be relied upon to support anyone Mr. Obama nominated. So, let's
leave that aside and go forward from there.

Judge Sotomayor can't be unintelligent, because she graduated law
school and serves on the Federal Bench. Her gifts may be limited,
but to accuse her of a lack of intelligence is like calling the
slowest player in the NFL "slow." You have to be fast simply to be there, even if you're the slowest guy on the team.

Her Honor is apparently a decent person with an active conscience, who
wants to use her power to help those she thinks "oppressed." This is
noble, but it isn't what judicial power is for. In fact, it is an
abuse of judicial power.

A judge's job is to apply existing law, not to write new law. Judge
Sotomayor seems to see her job not as an instrumentality of an
impoartial jnustice sysem but as a socioactive tool; and her power as
residing in herself, not as being derived from the basic law of the land.

Judges are accountable to no-one, and are in office for life. We
need servants of the law, not people who view themselves as its masters, if the system is not to break down.

Judge Sotomayor, not because of a lack of intelligence or sensitivity
but because of her demonstrated concept of how the office of judge
should be used, would be a force for the deterioration of the
Supreme Court of the United States.

Our country is in the worst condition has ever been in. We need
Supreme Curt justices who are sound, solid, and view themselves as
being under the law, not over it.

[joe1022joe]

From a political standpoint, The American Bar Association is a left wing institution. Of course it praises Sotomayor. The goal of the ABA is to install a left dominance on the US Supreme Court.

By the way, the ABA does not represent all attorneys, not even half of them. A good many of the ABA's members are not left wing, but belong to it only to use its resources in their law practices. But there is no doubt, the majority of the members of the ABA are left wing liberals.

[hungry1968-16]

What a crackpot comment.


"I don't like their UNANIMOUS RECOMMENDATION about Sotomayor, so I'm going to try and demonize them, by calling them a liberal, left wing organization."

I'm sure we'll all read later where Limabugh or O'Reilly said the exact same thing on their radio shows.

[gunownerdan]

Don't forget the SPLC. They also seem to be extremely left wing.

[hungry1968-16]

by ZedX-14Pilot July 7, 2009 10:48 AM PDT
Obviously 'nanc12', you, like all the other people who like to use racism, have no idea what the true meaning of the term is. That one line in my comment may be prejudice, but it sure isn't racist.







Laughable!!!

"I'm not racist, but my comments are."




ROFL!!!!

[jab232]

OK. Watch the GOP go after her. I watch all those old white men--Sessions, Graham and even party leaders like Limbaugh and Gingrich--go after her, and I am reminded again of how narrow the Republican Party is. Few minorities, few moderates and few women in real power. Even the Bar Association endorses her, but (on this issue and many others) the GOP doesn't know how to do anything but attack.

[specialty8]

This is just another great appointment by Obama and his good judgement. Geithner,better known as tax crook Turbo Timmy and the other four that resigned.

[ZedX-14Pilot]

This idiot has NO place in our highest court. This nomination is a joke. The very fact that all of the news outlets, prior to her nomination, were reporting that a MAN would have no shot at getting the appointment only goes to prove NOT ONLY reverse discrimination, but that chosing a candidate for their accomplishments is completely thrown out the window these days. She is just ANOTHER glowing example of why affirmative action doesn't, and never will work. After hearing and reading about some of this b***hes rulings over the last month or so, prepare to see blatently one sided decisions from this idiot. SHE IS RACIST, for all those who are claiming she isn't. And that is coming from a hispanic person. She is trash, and has no place in our courts. Her decisions WREAK of feminism. She is the texbook definition of of why women shouldn't be appointed to positions of power in this country. Her career, at least the one that the media have shown us, is a joke. We are better than this America. Another tragic episode in American history if she is confirmed.

[nanc12]

"She is the texbook definition of of why women shouldn't be appointed to positions of power in this country."
Wow - and you're calling HER a racist. Pot, meet kettle.

[ZedX-14Pilot]

Obviously 'nanc12', you, like all the other people who like to use racism, have no idea what the true meaning of the term is. That one line in my comment may be prejudice, but it sure isn't racist.

[omordha]

Affirmed racist belonging to a group which has expressed goals of the dismantling anAffirmed racist belonging to a group (La Raca: ?The Race?) with expressed goals of the dismantling and therefore destruction of the United States of America. She also believes in ?Economic Justice?, NOT justice for all. Obama and the extremist left are such a massive disaster for this country. We simply will not survive.

[nanc12]

Perhaps you'd like to edit your comment so that it contains at least one legible sentence.

[hungry1968-16]

You're probably one of those brainwashed Limbaugricans that believe that Islamic want to enslave us under their religion too, aren't you?