Credit Where Credit’s Due
More of this, please – a lot more!
“I don’t know her that well but I think she’s had a distinguished record on the bench and she should be entitled to fair hearings. Not – [it’s] like the senator John Cornyn said it,” he told CNN. “He may vote for it, he may not. But he’s been backing away from these…backing off from those radical statements to describe her, to attribute things to her that may or may not be true.
“And she was called by somebody a racist once. That’s not right. I mean that’s not fair. It doesn’t help the process. You’re out there name-calling. So let them decide who they want to vote for and get on with it.”
Former President George H. W. Bush
Tags: Sotomayor
Repubs would do well to softpedal the criticism of Sotomayor. My sense is that she may come down more to the right of Souter on some key issues, like abortion for example:
http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=3981
http://blogs.wsj.com/capitaljournal/2009/05/26/is-sotomayor-an-abortion-centrist/
Mr. Obama voted against Justice Roberts and Alito, what was his reasoning? Does Sotomayor get a pass?
Every GOP Senator could simply take Obama’s comments about Roberts and Alito and plug in Sotomayor.
I think you should ask the firefighters in Ct about racism. When the Supreme Court overturns her decision her appointment will suffer.
Mike Protack
They give him cheat sheets so he can cut and paste the day’s talking points appropriately. Way to go, Mr. Shallow Bench — for once again adding nothing to the conversation.
I believe that the ‘advice and consent’ function of the Senate is to ensure the nominee has the appropriate level of legal experience, and has no ethical flaws… I don’t believe it is a function of the Senate to perform an ideological litmus test on the nominee. It would stand to reason that a conservative President would nominate a conservative, and a liberal President would nominate a liberal.
In my early working years at the U.S. Department of Justice, I served (in an extremely minor capacity) under then-Solicitor General and soon-to-be acting Attorney General, Robert Bork- a fair and brilliant legal scholar. A former professor of law at Yale and US Circuit Court judge, Bork was ‘Borked’ on purely ideological grounds. I didn’t hear the left complaining.
I have no idea how Sotomayor will perform- but, unless there are glaring deficiencies in her legal resume, or evidence of ethical improprieties, she should be confirmed.