Comments on: Justice Sotomayor Takes Oath

By: pitchforksntorches

pitchforksntorches — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:50:24 +0000

Just for the record, the country is screwed.

By: Patterico

Patterico — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:02:51 +0000

I agree with Beldar on everything — except the idea of voting for her in a close vote. If her confirmation had truly been in doubt, you’d have to look at why. If the reason was that she exhibited a characteristic that Republicans don’t want in a Justice, it would be safe to assume thar Obama would have had to nominate someone with even less of that characteristic. And we could have ended up with a better Justice for our side. (Dems scored hugely when they got Kennedy instead of Bork, e.g. — because Bork supposedly showed too much scary ideological rigidity, so they had to get someone weaker in that characteristic).

By: Frank Drackman

Frank Drackman — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 06:24:53 +0000

Bad News is David Souter just signed up at LA Fitness…

By: Mitch

Mitch — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 06:14:10 +0000

Sotomediocre is a towering mediocrity. Someone dig up Roman Hruska and have him make a speech.

Better (or, “less bad”) Sotomediocre, than a SMART liberal who can write well.

By: Beldar

Beldar — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 03:03:29 +0000

Conservatives and foes of judicial activism have dodged a bullet with this nomination and confirmation, and Obama and the Dems have forfeited a tremendous opportunity. I predict that when she retires she’ll be remembered as the first Latina on the Court, and for virtually nothing else — exactly as her predecessor will be remembered as a prominent late 20th Century example of bad vetting by the POTUS who selected him, and for virtually nothing else. All in all, given that the Democrats hold the White House, I’m not dissatisfied by this result. (Given that her confirmation was assured, if I were a GOP senator I’d have cast a protest vote against her for dissembling — specifically, pretending to actually hold the same views about judging as Chief Justice Roberts — during her confirmation hearings. If her nomination had been in doubt, however, I would have cast an extremely cynical vote for her.)

By: About her former group

About her former group — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:49:17 +0000

While some of your leaders spoke out against her and her former group, it’s not exactly like they got a lot of help from your other leaders, now is it? Instead, most of your leaders stood by or in some cases supported her. I’m not going to bother searching at this site, but can anyone direct me to a post at HotAir pointing out that she was a member of a group that gave an award to someone who’d proposed genocide? Anything about that at Instapundit? Didn’t your leaders basically just roll right over?

And, aren’t you going to be paying the price for what they did for decades to come?

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By: redc1c4

redc1c4 — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:24:43 +0000

what a great day for AmeriKKKa!

now, not only do we have an openly racist President, we have a Supreme Court Justice who is both racist and sexist.

i’m *so* proud of my country….see how far we’ve come?

By: Official Internet Data Office

Official Internet Data Office — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:16:04 +0000

One oath in English and one in Spanish?

By: DRJ

DRJ — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:09:17 +0000

Apparently so, although he still had to do it twice. It seems a Supreme Court Justice has to take two oaths so it wasn’t a do-over this time.

By: kaf

kaf — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:50:41 +0000

Did Roberts do better this time than with the O?