Justice Sonia Sotomayor: Fire from a Hot Bench (she is still Obama's best decision)

[usregimechange]

Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
Nominated by Barack Obama on June 1, 2009


Phillips was representing the State of California and arguing that a federal court order mandating the state to reduce its prison population by 40,000 over a two-year period was “extraordinary and unprecedented." He said the state was working to remedy the situation on its own with new construction and that the order would force the release of thousands of prisoners prematurely.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Justice Sonia Sotomayor pounced. Ginsburg pointed out that one case challenging the conditions in the prison had been pending for 20 years. “How much longer do we have to wait?” she said.

Then it was Justice Sotomayor’s turn. She asked Phillips to give her “concrete details” of what California, mired in a fiscal crisis, could do on its own to alleviate the crowding. “Slow down from the rhetoric,” she warned Phillips.

Later she asked him: “When are you going to avoid the needless deaths that were reported in this record? When are you going to avoid or get around people sitting in their feces for days in a dazed state? When are you going to get to a point where you are going to deliver care that is going to be adequate?”

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2010/12/justice-sonia-sotomayor-fire-from-a-hot-bench.html

[Skittles]

1. I like her

[TheWraith]

2. I thought she was a crypto-corporate fascist plant?

After all, that's the shit DUers were saying about her when Obama picked her. :eyes:

[usregimechange]

3. I liked her after I dug into her work, Kagan I was a bit more concerned about but

a bit isn't that much.

[TheWraith]

4. And yet, people will continue recycling the same misinformation and smears. nt

[usregimechange]

5. I think there is quite a bit less of that going on about her today

[Skittles]

10. well, I never said that

[TheWraith]

11. The people who did will never own up to it.

And no one will learn the lesson of that whole story.

[Skittles]

13. dig 'em up and call 'em out

[immoderate]

12. So what to make of this? She didn't find against a corporation.

She upheld a federal ruling against a state government. This doesn't particularly make her progressive.

--imm

[elleng]

6. Note that Scalia told her, "Don't be rhetorical."

Listen, end of clip.

[vixengrl]

8. That is so assholic of him--what she was recapping was

the actual physical conditions of the prisoners, which could be construed as facts to be taken into account, but Scalia just doesn't seem to have patience for anything that implies concerns for human conditions. If the law was ever an ass, a picture of him would be the ideal illustration of that concept.

[elleng]

9. Right, a BIG ass!

[dimbear]

7. Fold this article over several times and use it to slap people who

think there's only one party.

[usregimechange]

14. McCain would have sent up Bybee

[Laelth]

15. She is excellent.

I'd be completely happy with the President if he confined his activities solely to playing basketball and appointing people to the Federal judiciary. Those seem to be the two things he does well.

-Laelth