The U.S. Supreme Court

her left hook

Making left turns when the stoplight turns from yellow to red.

i'm not the biggest Toobin fan but that Roberts article last week in the NYer was scary shit

Sonia Sotomayor?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 9 November 2006 10:24 (2 years ago)

the Roberts article was nothing new - all that stuff was pretty evident at the time of his confirmation, and was in any event made so not long after he took the bench

Agreed.

absolutely. it was just good to be reminded of how scary the guy is

the GOP will be dicks, to be sure, but she'll be a relatively easy confirmation

"after the 2010 midterms he won't approach a veto-proof majority again."

He actually probably will, the Rs are defending many more open Senate seats than the Ds.

o wait

gabbneb (gabbneb) wrote this on thread Bush's nominee to replace O'Connor is Harriet Miers on board I Love Everything on Oct 10, 2005

Kerry or Gore probably would have nominated Sonia Sotomayer or Jose Cabranes. Though maybe they're too Northeastern.

http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/the-dynamic-of-the-nomination-of-sonia-sotomayor/

The second claim – and this one will be front and center – will be the classic resort to ideology: that Judge Sotomayor is a liberal ideologue and “judicial activist.” (Put to the side the emptiness of the labels – i.e., that one person’s principle (e.g., a decision invalidating state laws authorizing punitive damages) is another’s “activism.”) There is no question that Sonia Sotomayor would be on the left of this Supreme Court, just not the radical left. Our surveys of her opinions put her in essentially the same ideological position as Justice Souter. In the ideological cases where her rulings have been reviewed by the Supreme Court (for example, Malesko and the pending Ricci case), her views have aligned with the left of the current Court.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090526/ap_on_go_su_co/us_obama_supreme_court

Sotomayor is a self-described "Newyorkrican"

uh, ur spellin it rong

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/05/26/sotomayer_talking_points.html

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/05/26/gop_senators_who_voted_against_sotomayer_in_1998.html

(includes Sessions, McConnell and McCain)

If that's how she describes herself, then it's not spelled wrong.

Obama is at his sparkling best at this formal announcement, by the way.

*pop* *fizz*

If that's how she describes herself, then it's not spelled wrong.

it's a matter of pronunciation

is it spelling or pronouncation

pick one and tell us o wise sage of the interwebs

let's all acknowledge gabbknob predicted exactly nothing.

howeve, i called this at a Noise FAP 3 weeks ago

the motion for acknowledgement is granted

well it's not pronounciation. maybe she does say newyorkrican, apparently a few people do:

Results 1 - 10 of about 357,000 for nuyorican
Results 1 - 10 of about 3,380 for newyorkrican

but I'm guessing there's a pretty good chance that whoever wrote the article has either never heard the word before or figures it has to be translated for the audience

lol at morbs

gabbneb is an originalist when it comes to pronunciation. Show some empathy!

the nets seem to have decided that her last name is pronounced "soto-my-air," which i'm guessing is what happens when you start to pronounce her name like golda meir and then pull halfway back

next fall: SNL sketch where she sings "A Boy Like That" to Ruth Ginsburg

no one on SNL is 1/2 as funny as Ginsburg's hubby

in Spanish you slightly roll the last "r," and it's definitely a long "o."

"In stunning news, President Obama picked himself for the Supreme Court. "Some say that I'm trying to do too much while in office. To them, I just want to say that I can walk and chew gum at the same time." President George W. Bush, while disappointed with the choice of an "activist judge", said that he was impressed with President Obama's "taking my unitary executive view to a whole new level"."

What do you suppose are the odds that he will, in fact, be appointed to the SCOTUS someday?

150:1 against

Will take those odds.

Hmmm
05.26.09 -- 9:49AM
By Josh Marshall

The Politico says that Republicans are in the difficult position of perhaps needing to hold their fire because of the political dangers of attacking a "Latina single mother."

But the Post says Sotomayor, who was married briefly when she was younger, has no children. And as far as we can tell, they're right: she has no children.

Interesting point from NPR this AM - assuming she is confirmed, she will make 6 Catholics on the Supreme Court. 6!!!

and leave us with 1 Jew

How many lizard people?

let the vetting of the vetters begin

also, the re-vetting of the vetted

it's all vetty vetty intertsing

Interesting point from NPR this AM - assuming she is confirmed, she will make 6 Catholics on the Supreme Court. 6!!!

our centuries-long plan is finally coming to fruition

i'm looking forward to the GOP torpedoing their remaining chances with hispanics in '10

How many lizard people?

http://www.picvault.info/images/77784_ScaliaLizard.jpg

http://www.catholic.com/images/Image17.gif

i mean, what are the chances that someone in the conservative media orbit might say something kind of offensive about hispanics in the next few weeks? just hear me out, it could happen

xps lol wut

I'd rather opposition to her nomination didn't pivot on GOP reluctance to attack a Hispanic woman, says this Hispanic.

honestly I'd think the 6 Catholics idea could get some traction amongst the bible-toting massive, there's still loads of anti-Catholic sentiment in the base

as a Hispanic I hope that we will be lucky enough to hear GOP "real talk" on what they think of Hispanics, but I suspect we won't get much of this from "official" sources.

Ready for GOP "real talk" on Newyorkricans vs. Nuyoricans

well, the GOP loves Cubans, if that's consolation.

I'd rather opposition to her nomination didn't pivot on GOP reluctance to attack a Hispanic woman, says this Hispanic.

― Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, May 26, 2009 10:44 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

ha well lets all hope today's nu and improved GOP feels no reluctance on this point!!