Funny, she doesn't look like Roger Taney. She's Puerto Rican. She's from the Bronx. Lord have mercy, how on earth can this "affirmative action baby" (I'm sure that's part of the talking points) be more qualified than Harriet Miers, or Alito '72...or Clarence? hahaha. I'm 100% certain both Sandra O'Connor (see Sandy's view on GOP wingnuts here) and Ruth B. Ginsberg are proud. Congratulations, mami. I bet you even Scalia will enjoy the mufungo you'll make for your clerks...
That's Sonia at Princeton, Class of '76 (black ain't the only thing that don't crack). Princeton in the nation's service. That's what we're about. 
Ask Michelle.
Ask Michelle.Trivia question, 100 Nat Turner Bonus points: Sonia was apppointed to the federal bench by a REPUBLICAN president. Can you name him, and thus answer why this is a minefield destined to split the wingnuts even further from moderate GOPers?
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Kudos to you Princetonians!
I heard she won the Pyne Prize, which isn't subject to affirmative action (tehehehe) and means she's a bit smarter than all of the Samuel Alito types and other whiteboys who put her down?
Im not sure why they are so frightened of her. But then again they think Barack gave up his personal life and put his family at risk just to destroy the USA. (double tehehehehe).
I'm debating whether to go on a MSM news hiatus while folks' heads explode behind this...
& LOL @: "black ain't the only thing that don't crack"!
Ha! The blogsphere is worse but at least they are upfront about being crazy. The MSM uses their tactics but asserts that they are professionals and thus better!!
"Sotomayor was nominated on November 27, 1991, by President George H. W. Bush to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York vacated by John M. Walker, Jr. She became the youngest judge in the Southern District[15] and the first Hispanic federal judge anywhere in New York State."
W.'s daddy? Oooooopsie. I guess Limbaugh and the morons in the GOP messed up the background check...
Remember the Souter came on the High Bench under the auspices of GHWBush too. He was thought to be conservative and turned out he was middle of the road!!!
Things change...
Done developed a crush on Solomayor...
That's the kind of crap that happens with compassionate conservatives like the a Bush in charge. Gotta please diversity, gotta destroy Rome now.
She looks like a light skinned sista to me...was Arthur Stromburg, black or puerto rican or both!
Anon6:54am: Ya know? Maybe that's why I like her. She looks like my late Mommie.
Interesting trivia question, but it doesn't mean what you apparently think it means.
She was appointed by GHWB as part of a deal. The blue slip policy whereby a Senator can veto appointments in his home state had resulted in seven vacant district court seats in New York. This was enough to cause problems.
Al D'Amato, Patrick Moynihan, and George Bush forged a compromise agreement to split the seats. Moynihan was allowed to put forth several names of which two would be nominated, in exchange for not objecting to the nominations of the other five.
It does perhaps mean that she's not especially radical, but she was definitely Moynihan's choice for the circuit court. Bush would not have appointed her otherwise, and it's deceptive to pretend so.
John Thacker: blah blah blah
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This might make your head explode John Thacker, but here's something addressing the other Sotomayor derangement syndrome.
Remember all the b.s. about "empathy?" Well what's so bad about her saying this: "But when I look at those cases, I have to say to myself, and I do say to myself, "You know, this could be your grandfather, this could be your grandmother. They were not citizens at one time, and they were people who came to this country.
When I have cases involving children, I can't help but think of my own children and think about my children being treated in the way that children may be treated in the case that's before me.
And that goes down the line. When I get a case about discrimination, I have to think about people in my own family who suffered discrimination because of their ethnic background or because of religion or because of gender. And I do take that into account. When I have a case involving someone who's been subjected to discrimination because of disability, I have to think of people who I've known and admire very greatly who've had disabilities, and I've watched them struggle to overcome the barriers that society puts up often just because it doesn't think of what it's doing -- the barriers that it puts up to them.
So those are some of the experiences that have shaped me as a person."
This would drive the intelligensia of Sessions and the other C students crazy, but--
Nat should have made this a trivia question. The clue should be "immigrant." Sotomayor's Puerto Rican. Technically that's a part of the USof A. So she wasn't the source of this quote.
Can you name the person? It wasn't Sandra Day O'Connor, who, as Nat explained, vomits at this b.s. the right wing's perpetrating.
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