{"id":5096,"date":"2009-07-15T15:33:52","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T20:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5096"},"modified":"2009-07-15T15:33:52","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T20:33:52","slug":"shes-lying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5096","title":{"rendered":"She’s Lying"},"content":{"rendered":"

…and she’s pretty good at it too.<\/p>\n

I spent a fair amount of time watching video excerpts of the Sotomayor hearings last night.<\/p>\n

Initially, her cool, calculated and over-enunciated responses disarmed me and left me thinking if we have to live with a SCOTUS appointee borne of Comrade Obama’s rule of the administrative branch any way, I can live with this.<\/p>\n

…and then I slapped myself.<\/p>\n

She’s good<\/em>…or her coach <\/em>is.<\/p>\n

Sotomayor: “No, sir. As I’ve indicated<\/a>, my record shows that at no point or time have I ever permitted my personal views or sympathies to influence an outcome of a case. In every case where I have identified a sympathy, I have articulated it and explained to the litigant why the law requires a different result. … I do not permit my sympathies, personal views, or prejudices to influence the outcome of my cases.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Her repeated assertions that forging policy remains the domain of Congress flies in the face of…<\/p>\n

“Court of appeals is where policy is made<\/a>\u2026and I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I found her responses in sharp contradiction with the record she ironically kept referring to and moreover with her own widely-publicized statements of the past.<\/p>\n

Judge Sonia Sotomayor said President Barack Obama didn\u2019t ask her about abortion before her U.S. Supreme Court nomination, as she renewed her promise to lawmakers that she would interpret the law impartially.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cI was asked no questions by anyone including the president about my views on any specific legal issue,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

True or not, this is really immaterial. He didn’t have to. Her record and public statements are well documented.\u00a0She is likely a token appointee. Furthermore, vetting has not been a strength of the Obama administration.<\/p>\n

She is by no means un<\/em>qualified – but is she suitable<\/em>? Did President Obama select the best candidate at hand, or the best “Wise Latina?”<\/p>\n

I’d like to hear what our crew of commenters think of Sotomayor and her confirmation hearings.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Do you think it’s a waste of time (she’s going to be confirmed any way)?<\/li>\n
  2. Do you believe her assertions these past couple of days or is she just reading from a prepared inventory of talking points?<\/li>\n
  3. Does she really <\/em>disagree with the president who said “[in] 95 percent of the cases, the law will give you the answer, and the last 5 percent legal process will not lead you to the rule of decision. The critical ingredient in those cases is supplied by what is in the judge’s heart.? Eighty percent of judging is the law”<\/em>?<\/li>\n
  4. Does her judgment of the New Haven, Connecticut firefighters race-bias lawsuit, subsequently overturned,\u00a0unwind her repeated “look at my record” plea?<\/li>\n
  5. How would the court (or your life) be impacted by the addition of Sotomayor, judging by her record and not her testimony?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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