The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday approved the nomination of federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor to become the nation’s first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, setting up a final confirmation vote by the Senate.
The committee’s 13-6 vote was mostly on partisan lines, with one Republican joining the panel’s Democrats in sending the nomination to the full Senate.
At least five Republican senators have announced their intention to support Sotomayor, making confirmation by the Democratic-controlled Senate a virtual certainty.
The committee voted Tuesday morning to send Sotomayor’s nomination to the full Senate, where she’s expected to be confirmed easily next week.
(Source: CNN / Fox News)
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Correction: Binyamin Cordoza was the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice; he was Jewish.
Sotomayor is a dishonest character who will legislate her selfish, self-centered, spoiled view of the world. Her entire tack during her questioning was to give answers dispelling worries about her.
At every opportunity, her answers pushed the idea that every position she embraced and every decision she made was based on a law that was already solidly established by someone else. If that was the case, then she should have been replaced by a computer.
So, #1, legislating from the bench is ok so long as you agree with the outcome? A judge is meant to apply and interpret existing law, not create it; so yes, every decision she makes *should* be based on some established legal precedent, be it prior caselaw or legislation.
As to the answers she gave, she gave what every single nominee does–the non-controversial answers that get one confirmed.
She is clearly an improvement over Souter. She is no more liberal than he is on most issues, and has a better record of support for religious minorities (hint: we are a religious minority), and also is more strongly pro-police and anti-criminal (hint: we are much more likely to be victims than criminals, so this is good for us).
#4, thank you for acknowledging the point about the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice. For the record, I heard it many times and thought it was common knowledge.
But, after listening to the confirmation hearings and how she answered specific quotes she had made in the past, I still hold that she used her legal training to create a tack on those quotes that may have made sense, but I dont believe it was the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Legal people are trained to create arguments and responses that are tightly woven, but not the truth.