Senators Sessions and Graham are taking their cuts at Judge Sotomayor, but I don't think they've landed any punches yet. I love this quote from Sessions, referring to Sotomayor's vote against the white firefighters in the New Haven case:WTF?

The New Haven case is ridiculous, there was no way to win. One way and it is racism against blacks, the other reverse racism against whites. Needless to say, I don't intend on being anywhere close to a fire in New Haven soon...I can't imagine this is boding well for teamwork within the department.

Obama is a prestigous law school graduate himself, and former president of the Harvard law review. While I don't agree with a number of his policies, I have to say I trust his judgement (no pun intended) on a good, fit Supreme Court Justice.

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Zero sum game. A reliable liberal replacing a reliable liberal. RBG's seat is the next likely to open up. Another zero sum appointment looms there. Maybe Anita Hill.

And speaking of the prez's tenure as Editor of the HLR. Try as I did last year, I was unable to find on the web any articles he wrote in the HLR to guage his positions. I couldn't even find any criticisms or commentary on anything he might have written for the Review. (Access to the publication on line is/was by subscription only.) (I had to settle on trying to read Michelle's senior theses at Princeton, which, I admit, I couldn't plow through. What I read left me non-plussed.(sp?))

Nonplussed is a funny word. Is it supposed to be the opposite of plussed?

I was going through some old boxes a while back and came across my college thesis. What a piece of crap, but I got a B plus on it. So, I wouldn't be too tough on young Michelle's writings.

My opinion, which is based on next to nothing, is that Obama is super intelligent, but not the sort of intellectual who would publish notable academic papers. I was never a threat to make law review at my law school, so I don't know how that works. My guess is that your non-subscription access to the HLR only gives the titles to the featured works done by professors and such. The student-written notes are much less prominent.

1. I'm not sure. I'm perplexed by that.

2. Yep. Your'e right. Mine was no great tome either, but it did get me an A iirc. (The Truman/MacArthur Controversy).

What were we talking about? Oh yeah. Here's to a long and healthy tenure for all the Justices, especially Scalia, Thomas, Roberts and Alito.
Intersting sidebar counselor: Sotomayor will be Catholic number 6 on the current court, if anyone cares.

I think the affirmative votes will number in the 70's. She'll breeze in.

I heard someone mention that the other day. That's a remarkable number. I wonder how that happened.

She will be confirmed.
But, did you hear about the criticism by some Professor of Law at Georgetown? He is miffed that she is renouncing her liberalism instead of taking pride in it. In fact he said, that if she beleieves what she says now, she is intellectually unfit and if she is purguring herself, she is morally unfit. This from a "progreessive"

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I saw Campbell Brown interviewing Robert Bork the othe night. I've always thought he was his own worst enemy in his hearings. All he had to do ,imo, was 2 things. First, shave off that silly ass satanic beard. Two, be polite answer the quesitons politely and not get into legal debate with the senators. He stood on his principles and fell on his sword. He regretted to Brown his performance when he had his chance. (ps. he looks old and tired now. I wonder what it's like to become a verb)

Sotomayor's doing what she has to do to avoid controversy and get'er done.
As Bill Clinton famously said "You gotta get elected, baby" In this case, she's gotta be confirmed, baby. Where she goes once on the bench is anyone's guess.
Eisenhower lived to regret appointing Earl Warren. I'm sure Reagan thought Sandra O'Connor would be more conservative than she turned out to be. Souter sure didn't turn out the way Bush 41 thought he would.

Do you remember who it was and where? I too think she's singing a different song in these hearings to avoid controversy and get confirmed. The fact that people from different ethnic and social backgrounds view the world differently and complete impartiality is impossible on most issues is so obvious that to deny it is laughable.

I wasn't aware of the Catholic statistic. I wonder how much that number has been influenced by the abortion question in appointments? Thomas is the only natural lawyer on the court as far as I know so the rest must be Catholic deviants.

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Art History paper. Ah, yes.
I had one of those to do back in the day. So, I schlepp to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, wander around for a while and plop down in front of this by Edouard Manet.
http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart6/archives/2004/12/the_battle_of_t.html

I have no idea what I wrote about, but having recently been discharged from the Navy, I probably BS'ed my way thru 4 or 5 pages with nautical lingo. ((I certainly didn't have a perspective such as that at the link)
Got an A on that as I recall.

Here is a cut/paste: Bold added by me

Will the Real Sonia Sotomayor Please Stand Up?

* Posted July 15th, 2009 at 10.07am in Rule of Law.

The reviews of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s testimony are coming in… and they are not good. The Washington Post’s Eva Rodrigues, who initially supported Sotomayor, wrote: “I’m surprised and disturbed by how many times today Sonia Sotomayor has backed off of or provided less-than-convincing explanations for some of her more controversial speeches about the role of gender and ethnicity in judicial decision-making.”

Commenting on Sotomayor’s testimony yesterday, liberal Georgetown law professor and Critical Legal Studies cofounder Mike Seidman said: “I was completely disgusted by Judge Sotomayor’s testimony today. If she was not perjuring herself, she is intellectually unqualified to be on the Supreme Court. If she was perjuring herself, she is morally unqualified.”

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