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I guess what I would see as the fumble is that everyone now knows the Repubs are just reciting a list of pre-written points instead of actually thinking about what they say. Yes, it happens all the time, but you don't want to admit it!
No doubt one of the talking points will be that 60% of Sotomayor's rulings have been overturned by the Supreme Court.
Doesn't sound like a particularly good record if you ask me. The GOP should attack that kind of record with fervor.
I am against Sotomayor being appointed because she has talked and ruled as a racist and she has done other things that make me fearful about her as a Justice.
I think that we may all find that the cases the Supreme Court take up are largely appellate cases so they came from appellate courts. The Supreme Court has a tendency to overturn about 7f5% of those cases because they took them because they saw them as wrongfully handled below. Now that makes any appellate judge likely to have about the same kind of record she has. I don't like it but it is true.
No doubt one of the talking points will be that 60% of Sotomayor's rulings have been overturned by the Supreme Court.
Doesn't sound like a particularly good record if you ask me. The GOP should attack that kind of record with fervor.
The report I saw said that six of her rulings had been heard by the supreme court and five had been overturned. That is 83%.
I don't know what kind of game Obama is playing, but it has nothing to do with getting this lady on the supreme court. It is just the Obama politics as usual. Does anyone else get the idea he thinks he is still running for president?
". . . out of the 380-odd opinions she penned while on the Second Circuit, the Supreme Court chose to review only six. The Supreme Court normally only chooses cases (about 1-2%) that they want to overturn. Of those six selected, Sotomayor was reversed on only three."
Here's a headline from a conservative newspaper that I find hilarious:
But having said that, Wolf, this is a powerful message, a powerful message of hope and opportunity of hope through this appointment, just like there's a powerful message sent when an African-American is elected president or an African-American or Hispanic is appointed as attorney general of the United States. It's a powerful message that a president listens to, and this president obviously did."
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Agreed. Pretty smart actually to have everyone on the same page and communicating a common message.
