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Just as she's charged to do from the bench without her expressed bias and obvious proclivity for pre-selection!
Oops! Different standards for different "flavors" of people, right? That's OK?
Show us any judgment she's made from the bench in her entire 17 year career there, that in any way whatsoever expresses "bias and obvious proclivity for pre-selection" (whatever the hell that means).
Just one.
A single, solitary ruling.
You have thousands to pick from, so there must be ONE that you can cite if your allegations are true.
Surely the Senate Judiciary Committee must've found one during this vetting process, no?
barring the insipid 'wise latina' comment that she made on multiple occasions, i would have to admit that she's well qualified for the position. too bad that wasn't a good enough reason for obama to vote in favor of roberts in 2005...
barring the insipid 'wise latina' comment that she made on multiple occasions, i would have to admit that she's well qualified for the position. too bad that wasn't a good enough reason for obama to vote in favor of roberts in 2005...
Roberts claimed to be a "wise Latina" too? Wow. I never knew that.
All of you are missing the most important factor here. The NRA grades politicians and had come out against Sotomayor (in my opinion on no evidence). It is a major political force as to fundraising and rally troops against a candidate. I'm a hunter and a gun owner and I am anti-NRA.
So, the other senators knew Sotomayor would be seated, they were just worried about how they would look to the NRA. The proportion of Hispanics in Utah and Texas is much higher than that in SC so I think some senators fear the NRA more than they fear the Latino vote.
In the end he gets it. The only Republican in the Senate Judiciary Committee to approve Sonia Sotomayor for SCJ....
To paraphrase he basically said that this is not about partisan politics, but whether Sotomayor is qualified to be on the bench of the supreme court, to which he gives an unequivocal 'yes'......
THIS is what the question is when we are going through the vetting process for a Supreme Court Justice.... We don't look at whether we agree with their politics or rulings, but whether the justice has a habit of unsound rulings and legislating from the bench.
I respect Graham for getting this right and I hope politicians from BOTH sides of the aisle can learn something from this...
I agree with you wholeheartedly. I'm angry with sens cornyn and hutchison for using this as a chip to curry favor with their redneck voting base.
Pandering for votes from the minorities is not an act of courage. Of course, perhaps he really believes that a "wise latina" is smarter than him given ihs lack of pigmentation.
just what did sen graham have to gain from this? SC does not have a large Hisp population, and don't even try to equate the black vote with the Hisp vote. It's not the same people, duh. He did a brave thing. there are a lot more conservative voting racist whites in SC than anything else.
No. Roberts is not a racist but he was very qualified.
I agree. He was very qualified to be a racist.
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