Tag Archive for ‘Sotomayor’

Why No Evangelical Justice?

When Republicans were warned not to give Sonia Sotomayor the drubbing Democrats gave Robert Bork and Sam Alito—lest they be perceived as sexist and racist by women and Hispanics—the threat was credible, for it underscored a new reality in American politics.

How to Handle Sonia

Republicans have been given fair warning.

Should GOP senators treat Sonia Sotomayor as contemptuously as Democrats treated Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito, they should expect Hispanic hostility for a generation.

The chutzpah of this Beltway crowd does not cease to amaze.

Payback Time In Washington?

The Sotomayor ruckus, with its senatorial and media back-and-forths about judicial power and racism, is one indicator that Americans like and trust each other less, if possible, than they have since maybe 1861.

Still a stronger indicator is the storm boiling over whether, and how hard, to go after Bush administration officials—former Vice President Cheney among them—over what they did to defeat terrorists.

Miss Affirmative Action, 2009

What are the grounds for rejecting Sonia Sotomayor?

No one has brought forth the slightest evidence she has the intellectual candlepower to sit on the Roberts court. By her own admission, Sotomayor is an “affirmative action baby.”

Sotomayor and the Last of the WASPS

If Judge Sonia Sotomayor is confirmed, the U.S. Supreme Court will consist of six Catholics, two Jews and precisely one white Anglo-Saxon Protestant in the form of Justice John Paul Stevens, who is 89 years old and boasts of two important WASP insignia: inherited wealth and a bow tie.

A Quota Queen for the Court

If the U.S. Senate rejects race-based justice, Sonia Sotomayor will never sit on the Supreme Court.

Obama’s Idea of Justice

When you think about it, Sonia Sotomayor is the perfect pick for the Supreme Court—in Barack Obama’s America.