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Title: Senate confirms Sotomayor for Supreme Court
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URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_sotomayor_senate/print
Published: Aug 6, 2009
Author: JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS
Post Date: 2009-08-06 15:42:52 by Lysander_Spooner
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Views: 207
Comments: 17
Senate confirms Sotomayor for Supreme Court By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON – The Senate confirmed Sonia Sotomayor Thursday as the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court. The vote was 68-31 for Sotomayor, President Barack Obama's first high court nominee. She becomes the 111th justice and just the third woman to serve. Democrats praised the 55-year-old Sotomayor as a mainstream moderate. But most Republicans voted against her, saying she'd bring personal bias and a liberal agenda to the bench. Senators took the rare step of assembling at their desks on the Senate floor for the historic occasion, rising from their seats to cast their votes. She replaces retiring Justice David Souter, a liberal named by a Republican president, and she is not expected to alter the court's ideological split. Still, Republicans and Democrats were deeply at odds over confirming Sotomayor, and the battle over her nomination highlighted profound philosophical disagreements that will shape future battles over the court's makeup as Obama looks to another likely vacancy — perhaps more than one_ while he's in the White House. The GOP decried Obama's call for "empathy" in a justice, painting Sotomayor as the embodiment of an inappropriate standard that would let a judge bring her personal whims and prejudices to the bench. Her writings and speeches "reflect a belief not just that impartiality is not possible, but that it's not even worth the effort," said Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the minority leader. "In Judge Sotomayor's court, groups that didn't make the cut of preferred groups often found that they ended up on the short end of the empathy standard." Democrats, for their part, hailed the vote as a breakthrough achievement for the country, on par with enactment of civil rights laws. They warned Republicans they risked a backlash from Hispanic voters in the short term and an enduring black mark on their party in history books by opposing Sotomayor's confirmation. "History awaits, and so does an anxious Hispanic community in this country," said Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey, the Senate's lone Hispanic Democrat and the head of his party's campaign arm, just minutes before the vote. "When she places her hand on the Bible and takes the oath of office, the new portrait of the justices of the Supreme Court will clearly reflect who we are as a nation, what we stand for as a fair, just and hopeful people." The Senate chamber was heavy with history as senators cast their votes in turn. Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., 91, the longest-serving senator who has been in frail health following a long hospitalization, was brought in in a wheelchair to vote. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., suffering from brain cancer, was absent. In the final tally, nine Republicans joined majority Democrats and the Senate's two independents to support Sotomayor's confirmation. The Republicans said that they might disagree with some of her rulings, statements or views, but that she was well-qualified to serve on the nation's highest court. "Judge Sotomayor's decisions, while not always the decision I would render, are not outside the legal mainstream and do not indicate an obvious desire to legislate from the bench," said GOP Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio. Like Democrats, many of them called Sotomayor's background inspirational. The daughter of Puerto Rican parents, she was raised in a South Bronx housing project, then educated in the Ivy League before rising to the highest legal echelons.
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#1. To: All (#0)
White males now have a larger target for persecution by this criminal, theiving, murderous gang of thugs that claim to rule us.
What a sad day for the Constitution
"America without her freedoms, is like a body without a soul" - Adam Kokesh
Hopefully nobody else will go before Palin becomes President and we have real conservatives appointed.
Not really, the Constitution of No Authority by Lysander Spooner explains it rather well. Eight Elements of the Spooner-Insight The pretended "U.S. constitution" has been a fraud and a hoax from the outset. It was never signed as a contract in any legal way by anyone. It never bound anyone. It was foisted on a naive, gullible, credulous populace. Therefore, the pretended "United States of America" has been a fraud and a hoax from the outset. It has always been a nothing masquerading as a something. It is pure imagination or make-believe. The pretended "government of the U.S.A." has no legal authority whatsoever. It is a hoax and a fraud in its entirety. All the people claiming to be "presidents," "senators," "representatives," "secretaries," "judges," "genera ls," "ambassadors," etc. of the pretended "U.S.A." are liars and imposters, whether they realize it or not. They are hucksters and hoaxers. The pretended "laws" of the pretended "U.S.A." are in reality no more than absurd noises and scribbles made by liars and imposters. The same applies to all other pretended "states" and "countries" of the world. Their pretended "emperors," "kings," "queens," "prime ministers," etc. have all been liars and imposters all along. Likewise, all their pretended "laws" have in reality been no more than absurd noises and scribbles of liars and imposters. The real rulers all along have been the major money lenders behind the scenes. The pretended "presidents," "senators," "representatives," "secretaries," "judges," "generals," "ambassadors," "emperors," "kings," "queens," "prime ministers," etc. are mostly pawns of the money lenders. In reality the whole world is ruled by secret bands of money lenders, tyrants, robbers, and murderers. Objection: The Founding Fathers were honorable and sincere men with the best of intentions. The U.S. Constitution is a legitimate contract "to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity." Response: The Founding Fathers were mostly lawyers. In their pretended "constitution" they misrepresented themselves as "We the people of the United States." They arbitrarily excluded women and blacks. They knew common law (in use at the time), which requires that for a contract to be valid it needs to be entered into knowingly, voluntarily, and intentionally by all parties. For a written contract to be valid, it must be signed by all parties. The Declaration of Independence was signed as a mutual pledge between the signatories. Comparing the Declaration to the pretended "constitution" may lead you to the conclusion that the latter was a betrayal of the former. Some of the Founding Fathers realized that the "constitution" was a betrayal of liberty, so they formulated the "bill of rights" in an attempt to undo the betrayal. The pretended "bill of rights" became part of the pretended "constitution" nearly three years after the latter was signed. The pretended "constitution" has been a fraud and a hoax from the outset - and an abomination, particularly if compared to the Declaration of Independence Link: http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/tl07.shtml
Palin is a blood sucking, theiving, signatory to mass murder, NEOCON and no good will come of her being in the Dark House. Perhaps we will all be lucky and Obummer will be the last El Presidente.
Republicans didn't have the balls to 'Bork' the pig-faced whore, to hell with the Senate.
_________________________________________________________________________ Was there really ever a doubt that this would happen?
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." ~ William Colby, Director, CIA 1973–1976 The purpose of the legal system is to protect the elites from the wrath of those they plunder.- Elliott Jackalope
Evidently the Republican Party decided it doesn't need any Hispanic votes in the coming elections.
she'll pull another palin half way through should she get so lucky as to be installed by the CFR. then there is the problem of the CFR never allowing a real conservative on the approved list of candidates and or nominees. so here is your dilemma fifty yard line or padlock or happy fun ball or whatever name your shit for brains self is going by; if madam mukluk is a real conservative the CFR wont allow her on the list of approved candidates, if she makes the list of approved candidates she is a POS CFR controlled lackey and unworthy of anyone's vote. don't look for her to run as a third party candidate as that requires something far outside her quitter work ethic.
The best gun to have, is the gun you have, when you need a gun.
No, but the MFers had to put on their little show for the sheeple then jerk the football away at the last second...again. Ooooooo, so close Uhhhmerkkins, but you lose! Again. What the bottom line is, is that if it's bad for the citizens & the country, it's a done deal. If it's good, well, dream on suckpoops.
Republican/Democrat aren't choices or ideologies or governing philosophies; they're just two especially odious centurions, rolling the bones at Calvary for a dead man's clothes.
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Damn that's a cynical thing to say. Well done. Send your answers to old pink...charlesfort
In 2007, the FBI reported on concern about white supremacists recruiting soldiers, saying "hundreds" of neo-Nazis were in the active military. But in April, a Department of Homeland Security report on extremism that reiterated much the same point was widely criticized by veterans groups and some conservative politicians as being unpatriotic, leading the Justice Department to retract the DHS report. Critics acknowledge that extremism in the Army is a touchy political subject. Yes. What we stand for. Equal skin color distribution for all.
yep. you nailed it.
Another way to put it is government, in particular the US, is bad for the people. It is interesting, in reference to the US Constitution, that the "We the people" line was in reality mostly a bunch of lying, theiving Philadelphia lawyers, or do I repeat myself, and not in reality the people of America, who had little to say or do with the writing of The Constitution.
#2. To: Lysander_Spooner (#0)
another excellent reason to BLOAT
#3. To: Lod (#2)
#4. To: Lysander_Spooner (#0)
#5. To: Flintlock (#3)
What a sad day for the Constitution
#6. To: longnose gar (#4)
#7. To: Lysander_Spooner (#0)
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#8. To: Lysander_Spooner (#0)
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#10. To: longnose gar (#4)
#11. To: Hayek Fan, christine, Lod, Jethro Tull, All (#8)
Was there really ever a doubt that this would happen?
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#12. To: Esso (#11)
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#13. To: Lysander_Spooner (#0)
#14. To: Esso (#11)
What the bottom line is, is that if it's bad for the citizens & the country, it's a done deal. If it's good, well, dream on suckpoops.
#15. To: Lysander_Spooner (#0)
"When she places her hand on the Bible and takes the oath of office, the new portrait of the justices of the Supreme Court will clearly reflect who we are as a nation, what we stand for as a fair, just and hopeful people."
#16. To: Esso (#11)
What the bottom line is, is that if it's bad for the citizens & the country, it's a done deal. If it's good, well, dream on suckpoops
#17. To: christine (#16)
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