Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., was a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee for the past two confirmation hearings for the U.S. Supreme Court, for Chief Justice John Roberts in 2005 and Justice Samuel Alito in 2006. But this time, for the hearing of nominee Sonia Sotomayor (in photo), Kansas is unrepresented on the committee (unless you count Kansas native Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa.). Yet two states have two members each: Wisconsin and Minnesota.
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Minnesota has only one legitimate Senator. Franken is the Senator from “Soros”.
“Chrisfrommactown” moans –
“Minnesota has only one legitimate Senator. Franken is the Senator from “Soros”.”
Who says CONs a bad losers?
They’re perfect losers!
Not to worry….they have Jeff Sessions the Republican leading the critique of Obama’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court.
The same Jeff Sessions who was rejected to an appointment as a U.S. district judge two decades ago over charges of racism.
The same Sessions who has a dismal record on race — including a black former assistant U.S. attorney’s testimony that Sessions once said he “used to think they [the Klan] were OK” until he found out some of them were “pot smokers”.
The same Sessions who dressed down a white lawyer for representing a black man and told him he was a disgrace to his race.
Sessions who has a problem with this nominee because he feels she might have trouble with (drum roll) race……….
Yesterday I heard the name ” Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund” brought up a few time because of the years she served as one of its board members. I think they fall into the same category which is known awkwardly as the “If It Doesn’t Sound like a American White Male Club You’re In Trouble” category. I seem to remember feigned outrage from the GOP over discussions about Roberts being a member of the Federalists when he was up for confirmation.
It should an interesting day watching the Pubs trying to sound like they don’t really hate all Hispanics, just the poor ones.
Happy Heathen ignorantly plays the racism card out of resentment that Sotomayor is actually being asked a few questions at her confirmation hearings.
If asking a latino justice a few simple questions during a confirmation hearing consitutes racism, I wonder what a filibuster against a latino immigrant represents?
Estrada was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. After his parents divorced, he immigrated to the United States to join his mother when he was 17, arriving with a limited command of English.
Unable to block Estrada’s nomination in the Senate Judiciary Committee after the Republican Party took control of the Senate in 2003, Senate Democrats used a filibuster to prevent his nomination from being given a final confirmation vote on the full Senate floor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Estrada
They’re perfect losers!
LOL.
Hey, ChrisfromMacTown,
Get over it.
BTW, Kansas–
Vote for out-of-touch reich-wingers and see your influence wane, just as it should, in Washington.
What a shame that Brownback isn’t there asking the next Supreme Court Justice if she is a “baby killer?”
Brownback would be asking her if she ever attended a gay union ceremony. Cut to the quick.
I’m wondering….
If the soda mare 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.
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Which country are all these wise latina women running ??
Since most latin countries are so rich, educated, productive and powerful….
yeah….
Soda Mare – “With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that’s been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that – there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.”
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…my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates.
Maybe because you are not as smart, just more wise.
I wonder if she thinks there are “cultural biases” built into the constitution.
The “soda mare” – Second Amendment not a fundamental right.
Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor ruled in January 2009 that states do not have to obey the Second Amendment. In Maloney v. Cuomo, Sotomayor signed an opinion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that said the Second Amendment does not protect individuals from having their right to keep and bear arms restricted by state governments.
The opinion said that the Second Amendment only restricted the federal government from infringing on an individual’s right to keep and bear arms. As justification for this position, the opinion cited the 1886 Supreme Court case of Presser v. Illinois. Quoting Presser, the court said, “it is a limitation only upon the power of Congress and the
national government, and not upon that of the state.”
I’m encouraged that our country’s highest court will have another female justice — one who is highly qualified! This is very important to me and most females. Some of those Senators don’t “get it” about females and it shows. We not only recognize this but we vote.
Here is an article with an inter-active feature. Mouse over the figures seated at the table and up pops the identity and a bit of information about members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. I’ve found it helps me to keep ‘the players’ straight as I wasn’t familiar with each of these Senators before the confirmation hearings began.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/judicial/2009-07-13-senate-hearings-sotomayor_N.htm
Watched the questioning for about an hour, she appears to be extremely knowledgeable, deliberate and thoughtful in her answers.
No wonder the cons hate her.
Let’s see, if you want to see how she would be as a Judge it is perfectly logical to not go by her judicial record instead the focus is on something she said? So much for the common sense option of looking at what someone actually does to judge they stances over simply what they say!
Sotomayor has been overturned by the US Supreme Court SIX TIMES.
Sotomayor is NOT QUALIFIED to adjudicate Constitutional issues in the US Supreme Court.