Sonia Sotomayor, the federal judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, has been nominated this morning by President Obama to the Supreme Court. If confirmed, she would become the first Hispanic justice to serve on the high court (she is of Puerto Rican descent).Sotomayor, who was raised by a single mother, rose through Princeton University and Yale Law School and was appointed as a federal justice by President George H.W. Bush and elevated to the appeals court by President Clinton in 1998.
Prior Latin Americanist coverage on Sotomayor here and here.
Conservatives have signalled that they will oppose the nomination, though it appears unlikely that they will be able to gather enough congressional support to effectively impede the confirmation. GW law professor Jonathan Turley considers Sotomayor "the highest-risk nomination Obama could pick."
It's clear that Sotomayor's opinions reflect what conservatives consider judicial activism (she once suggested that the US appeals courts are "where policy is made.") Her status as a Latina woman with an impeccable resume makes her a very strong candidate, and conservatives are likely to start an offensive on her opinions before the public can become enamored with the symbolism her nomination represents. At 54, she would become the second youngest justice on the current court (after Chief Justice John Roberts, less than a year her junior).
Sources: NY Times, CNN, Judicial Network
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Fox News is in a big campaign to discredit Sonia Sotomayor, using the most Idiotic Republican Clowns, that are presented like Great Jurists and Experts. ( interviewed by Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Laura Ingraham, etc ..)
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The Kernel and Nucleus of American Politics is Race and Racism, or in other words Minorities and the Destiny of Minorities. Everything revolves around Minorities, like planets around the sun.
Enter Fox News and you are hypnotized, mesmerized, suggested and hinted, nonstop 24hours/7days :
That Minorities are lazy, that they live on Welfare, that American Values are destroyed by Minorities. That Western Civilization is doomed if Minorities have some Progress. That Minorities and Foreigners are incapable of Civilization ( Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly ), that Mexicans, Latinos, Africans, etc ... are dangerous lepers with syphilis and other venereals.
They do not tell those lies outright but are always suggesting them in the most Hyprocrital way.
Some people like Glenn Beck speak as if they were the owners of "God" and with a very personal relation to "God" .... and I use quotes for "God" because that is not a Good God but an idiot God created by the deranged mind of a child that was raised in a dysfunctional family as Glenn Beck candidly admits. There may be a Good God, but that is not the God of Fox News Hyprocritally promoted by Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Bill O'Reilly, etc ...
Charles Krauthammer and Fred Barnes ( Special Report Show ) are most boring, even if they are not so stupid and idiotic as the other mentioned guys. Unfortunately Charles and Fred use their intelligence and culture to be boring, tiring. With all due respect I call Charles and Fred, the Mummy and the Zombie.
One rare and extraordinary day Juan Williams ( the Black Guy ) spoke up against them and stood up to say that Republicans were degenerating into a White Race Party that did not understand Minorities.
My opinion of Juan Williams changed 180 degrees after that speech. I know that Charles Krauthammer and Fred Barnes are highly respected in American Journalism. But for me they are dead corpses with a lot of cobwebs. I do not dislike them like Glen, or Bill, or Sean, or Laura. But my only use for Charles and Fred is to combat insomnia.
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