Mother Jones - Comments for "Supreme Court Kabuki Watch"

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A few cases in point:

"White man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw," - Newt Gingrich, twittering. Unfortunately for her and fortunately for us there are plenty of things that we've even talked about her already. I'm telling you, she appears to be a racist. She said things that are racist in any other context ... You can still be a racist and have all those things in your background. You can be a racist and have all that stuff in your background. Tom Tancredo "Putting the emphasis on the final syllable of Sotomayor is unnatural in English... and insisting on an unnatural pronunciation is something we shouldn't be giving in to." National Review Online's Mark Krikorian "Here you have a racist, you might want to soften that and say a reverse racist..." Rush Limbaugh "Obama seems to have the views of a 21-year-old Hispanic girl -- that is, only by having a black president, an Hispanic justice, a female secretary of State, and Bozo the Clown as vice president will the United States become a true 'vanguard of societal ideas and changes.'" Michael Goldfarb (Weekly Standard) In the months ahead, it will be important for those of us in the U.S. Senate to weigh her qualifications and character as well as her ability to rule fairly without undue influence from her own personal race, gender, or political preferences." Sen. James Inhofe You almost feel sorry for them, they just can't seem to control themselves. Almost. Actually, I get Rush, his job is to stir the soup but the elected dudes, they need to rise above it, at least this time, or speak a little more coded.

Partly Agree...

The "We're Not Them" Industrial Complex of Think Tanks and PACs will happily (both sides) fuel the "controversy" of Obama's selection for as long as they can print out bogus surveys attached to fund raising letters to keep their organizations chugging along. What is more interesting to watch are the angry white men and the GOP, but I repeat myself, as they continue to self destruct. The prudent course of action here is to realize that Obama won Hispanics by 85% and play your hand accordingly. What gain, since her nomination is all but imminent, would they receive for holding hearings full of vitriol and questioning her rise to this opportunity as nothing more than affirmative action and she herself a racist? And though Obama polled poorly with white woman they'll also do themselves no service by repeatedly attacking her on what is essentially trumped up charges. Joan Welsh will be leading the sexism charge at full speed. But they just can't help themselves, can they? It's another assault on the "white man citadel" and every reflexive core of their being says counter attack, Neanderthalish as that strategy maybe. Don't get me wrong, I am all for exposure. I have no legal background and so I think it helpful for me and other legal laymen like me to have her record nitpicked and presented to us, though I prefer to have it presented as 'here is the case, here is how she ruled' without the added this is why you should think it is good or bad thrown in. I'll make that own decision for myself. And yeah, a little background is fine, I don't need to know if she sleeps on a first date but if she, during her days at Princeton, was say a radical Puerto Rican nationalist, it would be nice to know. But what the GOP will do is not attack her judicial record (perhaps because initial reports seem it is quite vanilla and lacks controversy) but her race, her gender, cherry picked sentences, the term empathy (um, which was used by GHWB when nominating Clarence Thomas) and other things that don't play well in the xenophobic, pseudo hyper masculine, Anglocentric, perpetually angry world view which is the current GOP. And so they reduce their existing and potential membership even more (one can already see the Spanish language ad campaigns for 2010 quoting Republican leaders decrying her as an affirmative action recipient in the swing states out West). One more coffin in the nail. So let them howl, in fact, encourage it.

How do poor folks afford

How do poor folks afford Harvard? Scholarships are how they do it. If you come from a family that makes less than $250K a year and are accepted into Harvard you don't pay a thing. As far as other schools many people get scholarships based on their academic merit, but some consideration is given to financial need. Just because you earned scholarships due to hard work in high school doesn't mean you aren't "self-made"

60% of her rulings

60% of her rulings overturned? I can't get the numbers to work out to 60. Is there a new "Limbaugh math" somewhere? In regular math, 3 overturned out of 380 rulings gets you to around 0.8%. Or you could say 3 overturned out of 6 appealed gets you to 50%, but then that would suggest she has a lower rate of being overturned than just about any other sitting judge. (75% is the average.) Or maybe you could just say 3 overturned out of 3 overturned. then you're at 100%! That's a much more solid number, I think you should run with that one.

thank god...

... somebody remembered to bring a six pack of stupid to the party. Apparently, you're completely unfamiliar with the concepts of academic scholarships & student loans. Idiot.

the only characters missing

the only characters missing from your slick, sarcastic and weary screed is the chorus of esoteric cognisanti...soiled bitches like you /60% of her rulings have been overturned

Sonia Sotomayor nomination

dePaul Consiglio Amen.

The legal community seems to

The legal community seems to think highly of her, but when all is said and done, Barack Obama put a sign on the Supreme Court human resources dept. stipulating that WHITE MALES NEED NOT APPLY. Also meseems I smell a buildup of the drive to rig future elections by giving illegal aliens a path to voting Democratic. Part of the pander to Hispanics campaign. One hears so much about Sotomayer and the Obamas pulling themselves up by the bootstraps, but given their background of Harvard, Princeton, Yale, one suspects they come from the pampered affirmative action sector. I don't really know, just a suspicion. How do poor folks afford Harvard? Working in the steel mill? A friend of mine made enough money in high school working in tough industrial jobs that he put himself through U. of I., but I have my doubts that the Obamas and Sotomayer came from this sort of self-made background.

Kabuki

Oh, Kevin, you're such an idealist. "All work and no play...."

couldn't disagree more

Strongly disagree. Many, if not most, Supreme Court decisions have quite significant real-world implications, as Ledbetter should make clear. And here's a fascinating, if disturbing, first-person account of the consequences that Good News Club v. Milford Central School -- for which Clarence Thomas wrote the majority's opinion in 2001 -- had, and continues to have in school districts throughout the country. It forces schools to open their afterschool programs to interested evangelical programs with designs of proselytizing to young & impressionable children. Just because the Court transcripts are laden with obscure legal theories & a bunch of Latin phrases that are generally unfamiliar to those of us who didn't study law doesn't mean this stuff doesn't affect our daily lives. It does.

Of course they were disingenuous

Everybody knows Republicans can't read.

Campaigning

The weeks of campaigning against Sotomayor have had an interesting side effect: Republicans' calls to wait until they've had time to study her record look disingenuous from the get go. It's all been out there for a while.

I disagree Kevin

While it may be tedious, this will be an important contributor to 2010 and 2012 election outcomes, hopefully to the benefit of democrats. I mean look at it ... the Republicans will argue that a woman who was the editor of the Yale Law Review and graduated summa cum laude from Princeton is not qualified .... talk about your white male identity politics! I'm hoping they'll follow Rush like a herd of lemmings. (do lemmings come in herds? or is it packs)

I think she's a great

I think she's a great choice! I hope to see her confirmed really quickly...