Daniel_Cheung
06-01-2009, 12:16 AM
Obama picks Sotomayor for Supreme Court
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D98DU1KG0&show_article=1
U.S. President Barack Obama tapped U.S. Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court on Tuesday, officials said, making her the first Hispanic in history picked to wear the robes of a justice.
If confirmed by the Senate, Sotomayor, 54, would succeed retiring Justice David Souter. Two officials described Obama's decision on condition of anonymity because no formal announcement had been made. ...
Brian McLaren: On Racism
http://blog.sojo.net/2009/05/29/on-racism/
Many in the Republican Party and some noteworthy Christian leaders have come together to call Judge Sotomayor a racist. This rhetoric compounds with other recent statements ? support for torture, opposition to hate speech legislation (note: not opposition to hate speech, but to legislation restricting hate speech), ongoing denial of environmental crisis and climate change, and so on....
AP: Obama picks Sotomayor for Supreme Court
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2009/05/ap_obama_picks.html
President Obama will choose U.S. Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court today, according to an AP report.
Sotomayor (SUHN'-ya soh-toh-my-YOR') will take retiring Justice David Souter's place if she is approved by the Senate. She would be the first Hispanic and third woman to serve on the Supreme Court....
The Sotomayor Decision Pro-Life Groups Like
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2009/05/the_sotomayor_d.html
Shortly after President George W. Bush reinstituted the Mexico City Policy (which bars government funds to groups that support or perform abortion), the Center for Reproductive Law & Policy sued.
The pro-choice group's argument was that the Mexico City Policy unconstitutionally violated rights of speech (since it couldn't "actively promote" abortion) and association (it couldn't work with abortion rights advocacy groups overseas) as well as the constitution's Equal Protection Clause (it wasn't on "equal footing" with prolife groups in competing for funds)....
The Sotomayor Decision Pro-Life Groups Aren't Sure About
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2009/05/the_sotomayor_d_1.html
In 1989, members of Amnesty America entered an abortion clinic in West Hartford, Connecticut, chained themselves together, and blocked the entrance. When police arrived, the protesters used passive resistance to continue their protest (among their techniques: covering their hands in maple syrup to make handcuffs less useful).
The police dragged the protesters out anyway, and Amnesty America members sued, saying several of them suffered lasting physical damage from the police officers' actions (among the claims: an officer rammed a protester's head into a wall)....
The Offhand Comment Pro-Life Groups Don't Like
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2009/05/the_offhand_com.html
Expect to see a lot less discussion of Sotomayor's two abortion-related decisions than interpretation of this quote, said in an ambiguously humorous context:...
Pro-Life Group Consensus on Sotomayor: 'Activist'
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2009/05/prolife_group_c.html
More reactions to Obama's Supreme Court nominee continue to come in from pro-life groups. So far all include a reference to Sotomayor's "where policy is made" comment, and none include a reference to her decisions related to abortion.
Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law & Justice calls the Sotomayor nomination "a very aggressive decision that will trigger a national debate on the issue of judicial activism."...
Focus on the Family Action on Sotomayor
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2009/05/focus_on_the_fa_3.html
Focus's political arm released a statement attributed to Judicial Analyst Bruce Hausknecht. As with other pro-life groups, the statement doesn't talk about Judge Sotomayor's legal decisions but rather focuses on the 2001 Berkeley speech and the 2005 Duke panel....
Abortion Rights Backers Get Reassurances on Nominee
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/28/AR2009052803937.html
The White House scrambled yesterday to assuage worries from liberal groups about Judge Sonia Sotomayor's scant record on abortion rights, delivering strong but vague assurances that the Supreme Court nominee agrees with President Obama's belief in constitutional protections for a woman's right to the procedure. ...
The Much More Interesting Line from Judge Sotomayor's Berkeley La Raza Law Journal article
http://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2009/05/the-much-more-interesting-line-from-judge-sotomayors-berkeley-la-raza-law-journal-article.html
Earlier today, Jess Bravin, the Wall Street Journal Supreme Court reporter, asked me to look at the piece, which I did, and it seems to me the line that is getting most of the attention from easily excitable white male conservatives--"I 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"--is actually not nearly the most striking line in this short (and rather thin) article. In context, it's quite clearly a play on a line attributed to Justice O'Connor, and it is followed by references to notorious decisions involving sex and race discrimination by Holmes and Cardozo, in which, of course, female or minority judges would have surely done better....
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D98DU1KG0&show_article=1
U.S. President Barack Obama tapped U.S. Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court on Tuesday, officials said, making her the first Hispanic in history picked to wear the robes of a justice.
If confirmed by the Senate, Sotomayor, 54, would succeed retiring Justice David Souter. Two officials described Obama's decision on condition of anonymity because no formal announcement had been made. ...
Brian McLaren: On Racism
http://blog.sojo.net/2009/05/29/on-racism/
Many in the Republican Party and some noteworthy Christian leaders have come together to call Judge Sotomayor a racist. This rhetoric compounds with other recent statements ? support for torture, opposition to hate speech legislation (note: not opposition to hate speech, but to legislation restricting hate speech), ongoing denial of environmental crisis and climate change, and so on....
AP: Obama picks Sotomayor for Supreme Court
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2009/05/ap_obama_picks.html
President Obama will choose U.S. Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court today, according to an AP report.
Sotomayor (SUHN'-ya soh-toh-my-YOR') will take retiring Justice David Souter's place if she is approved by the Senate. She would be the first Hispanic and third woman to serve on the Supreme Court....
The Sotomayor Decision Pro-Life Groups Like
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2009/05/the_sotomayor_d.html
Shortly after President George W. Bush reinstituted the Mexico City Policy (which bars government funds to groups that support or perform abortion), the Center for Reproductive Law & Policy sued.
The pro-choice group's argument was that the Mexico City Policy unconstitutionally violated rights of speech (since it couldn't "actively promote" abortion) and association (it couldn't work with abortion rights advocacy groups overseas) as well as the constitution's Equal Protection Clause (it wasn't on "equal footing" with prolife groups in competing for funds)....
The Sotomayor Decision Pro-Life Groups Aren't Sure About
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2009/05/the_sotomayor_d_1.html
In 1989, members of Amnesty America entered an abortion clinic in West Hartford, Connecticut, chained themselves together, and blocked the entrance. When police arrived, the protesters used passive resistance to continue their protest (among their techniques: covering their hands in maple syrup to make handcuffs less useful).
The police dragged the protesters out anyway, and Amnesty America members sued, saying several of them suffered lasting physical damage from the police officers' actions (among the claims: an officer rammed a protester's head into a wall)....
The Offhand Comment Pro-Life Groups Don't Like
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2009/05/the_offhand_com.html
Expect to see a lot less discussion of Sotomayor's two abortion-related decisions than interpretation of this quote, said in an ambiguously humorous context:...
Pro-Life Group Consensus on Sotomayor: 'Activist'
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2009/05/prolife_group_c.html
More reactions to Obama's Supreme Court nominee continue to come in from pro-life groups. So far all include a reference to Sotomayor's "where policy is made" comment, and none include a reference to her decisions related to abortion.
Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law & Justice calls the Sotomayor nomination "a very aggressive decision that will trigger a national debate on the issue of judicial activism."...
Focus on the Family Action on Sotomayor
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2009/05/focus_on_the_fa_3.html
Focus's political arm released a statement attributed to Judicial Analyst Bruce Hausknecht. As with other pro-life groups, the statement doesn't talk about Judge Sotomayor's legal decisions but rather focuses on the 2001 Berkeley speech and the 2005 Duke panel....
Abortion Rights Backers Get Reassurances on Nominee
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/28/AR2009052803937.html
The White House scrambled yesterday to assuage worries from liberal groups about Judge Sonia Sotomayor's scant record on abortion rights, delivering strong but vague assurances that the Supreme Court nominee agrees with President Obama's belief in constitutional protections for a woman's right to the procedure. ...
The Much More Interesting Line from Judge Sotomayor's Berkeley La Raza Law Journal article
http://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2009/05/the-much-more-interesting-line-from-judge-sotomayors-berkeley-la-raza-law-journal-article.html
Earlier today, Jess Bravin, the Wall Street Journal Supreme Court reporter, asked me to look at the piece, which I did, and it seems to me the line that is getting most of the attention from easily excitable white male conservatives--"I 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"--is actually not nearly the most striking line in this short (and rather thin) article. In context, it's quite clearly a play on a line attributed to Justice O'Connor, and it is followed by references to notorious decisions involving sex and race discrimination by Holmes and Cardozo, in which, of course, female or minority judges would have surely done better....