Jul 16, 2009 8 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Fox News: The lead plaintiff in the New Haven firefighter case central to Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination said Thursday that the federal appellate court judge ruled in his case based on "politics" and "personal feelings" -- and not the law. "Americans have the right to go into our federal courts and have their cases judged based ...
Continue ReadingJul 16, 2009 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The Daily Beast: Even some liberals are frustrated by Sonia Sotomayor’s carefully plotted answers this week. The Daily Beast’s Paul Campos on how she’s denying the truth about our legal system. Four hundred years ago, upon the occasion of his sudden religious conversion, Henry de Bourbon famously remarked that “Paris is well worth a Mass.†Converting from ...
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Continue ReadingJul 16, 2009 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
WAPO: The confirmation hearing of Sonia Sotomayor opened this morning for its fourth -- and perhaps final -- day, with Republicans reprising their criticism of her role in a discrimination case involving Connecticut firefighters that was recently overruled by the Supreme Court. As Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee took turns in a second round ...
Continue ReadingJul 16, 2009 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Is he poised to join the Newt Gingrich Hall of Shame? Newt retracted his charge of racism in her judicial rulings. From Politico: In Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is sounding like a possible supporter. He opened up his comments by saying: "We’ll see what your future holds, but I think it’s ...
Continue ReadingJul 15, 2009 3 Comments ›› Erik Wong
POLITICO: Republicans failed to push Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor off what appears to be her steady stride towards confirmation Wednesday, though in a series of low-key exchanges she did retreat further on some of her controversial past statements. Sotomayor gave ground on comments about the role of physical differences in judging and seemed to pull back ...
Continue ReadingJul 14, 2009 12 Comments ›› Erik Wong
WASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor firmly denied racial bias Tuesday at her Senate confirmation hearing and said an oft-criticized remark about her Hispanic heritage affecting judicial decisions was a rhetorical device gone awry. An attempted play on words "fell flat" in a speech in 2001, Sotomayor told Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., referring to ...
Continue ReadingJul 13, 2009 7 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Watch them call him a "right wing extremist." The Jerusalem Post: Anton Winkler, a spokesman for the Munich Prosecutor, confirmed to The Jerusalem Post on Monday that John Demjanjuk has been formally charged with being an accessory to murder of 27,900 Jews in the Sobibor Nazi extermination camp during World War Two. The zigzagging legal process surrounding ...
Continue ReadingJul 13, 2009 12 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Watching the hearings live on Fox. It is sickeningly PC. Hearings to continue tomorrow. Developing... Video: Dem Casts Chief Justice Roberts As Activist Judge During Sotomayor Hearings WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats praised Sonia Sotomayor as a judicial pioneer, but Republicans questioned her impartiality and President Barack Obama's views as well Monday at confirmation hearings for the nation's ...
Continue ReadingJul 13, 2009 6 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Above quote from Peter Wilson. The Wall Street Journal: WASHINGTON -- A secret Central Intelligence Agency initiative terminated by Director Leon Panetta was an attempt to carry out a 2001 presidential authorization to capture or kill al Qaeda operatives, according to former intelligence officials familiar with the matter. The precise nature of the highly classified effort isn't clear, ...
Continue ReadingJul 13, 2009 18 Comments ›› Erik Wong
ARC: by Tom Bowden On the eve of Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Politico.com was reporting that “Republicans have yet to uncover a smoking gun in Sotomayor’s past, and her confirmation is seen by many as a fait accompli.†This says a lot about the Senate’s inability (on both sides of the aisle) to recognize ...
Continue ReadingJul 10, 2009 14 Comments ›› Erik Wong
CNSNews.com In an interview to be published in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she thought the landmark Roe v. Wade decision on abortion was predicated on the Supreme Court majority's desire to diminish “populations that we don’t want to have too many of.†In the 90-minute interview in Ginsburg’s ...
Continue ReadingJul 7, 2009 6 Comments ›› Erik Wong
WASHINGTON (AP) - Conservatives stepped up their criticism of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday, but it was unclear how far Senate Republicans were willing to go to create bumps in what appears to be a smooth road to confirmation for President Barack Obama's first high-court choice. Even as the Senate's top Republican suggested that ...
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WASHINGTON - The top Republican on the Senate committee that will consider Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination says a Puerto Rican civil rights group's papers could shed light on her judicial approach, particularly her view of racial preferences in hiring. White House Counsel Greg Craig, however, told Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., in a letter that board ...
Continue ReadingJul 2, 2009 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
WASHINGTON (AP) - A top Republican pressed for more information Thursday about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's ties to a Puerto Rican civil rights group he said took extreme positions on race, as the White House argued that the material was irrelevant to the judge's nomination. White House Counsel Greg Craig told Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., ...
Continue ReadingJul 2, 2009 1 Comment ›› Erik Wong
Sonia Sotomayor was not mentioned in this article, despite the fact that the very court that she is nominated for found one of her most prominent recent rulings to be Unconstitutional and racist. Why wasn't she mentioned? To keep her out of it. To shy off the responsibility she took and abused, so that she ...
Continue ReadingJul 1, 2009 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
World Net Daily: The nomination by President Obama of 2nd Circuit Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court is more than alarming to an innocent man who was convicted of murder and spent 16 years in prison before being cleared and released. Jeff Deskovic, whose pursuit of freedom has been chronicled by the New York ...
Continue ReadingJun 30, 2009 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
WASHINGTON - A Puerto Rican legal advocacy group late Tuesday sent a trove of documents from Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's past to the Senate panel considering her nomination. Latino Justice PRLDEF sent the Judiciary Committee more than 350 pages of documents from the 12 years Sotomayor spent on its board, opening what could be an ...
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