Comments on: Did Sotomayor just get blackballed? http://snarkybytes.com/2009/06/29/did-sotomayor-just-get-blackballed/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:22:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jonah http://snarkybytes.com/2009/06/29/did-sotomayor-just-get-blackballed/#comment-1095 jonah Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:54:52 +0000 http://snarkybytes.com/?p=3843#comment-1095 Tom Goldstein is a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, and lecturer at Stanford and Harvard Law Schools. He is the founder of SCOTUSblog. In sum, in an eleven-year career on the Second Circuit, Judge Sotomayor has participated in roughly 100 panel decisions involving questions of race and has disagreed with her colleagues in those cases (a fair measure of whether she is an outlier) a total of 4 times. Only one case (Gant) in that entire eleven years actually involved the question whether race discrimination may have occurred. (In another case (Pappas) she dissented to favor a white bigot.) She participated in two other panels rejecting district court rulings agreeing with race-based jury-selection claims. Given that record, it seems absurd to say that Judge Sotomayor allows race to infect her decisionmaking. http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2009/06/03/judge-sotomayor-and-race.aspx Tom Goldstein is a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, and lecturer at Stanford and Harvard Law Schools. He is the founder of SCOTUSblog.

In sum, in an eleven-year career on the Second Circuit, Judge Sotomayor has participated in roughly 100 panel decisions involving questions of race and has disagreed with her colleagues in those cases (a fair measure of whether she is an outlier) a total of 4 times. Only one case (Gant) in that entire eleven years actually involved the question whether race discrimination may have occurred. (In another case (Pappas) she dissented to favor a white bigot.) She participated in two other panels rejecting district court rulings agreeing with race-based jury-selection claims. Given that record, it seems absurd to say that Judge Sotomayor allows race to infect her decisionmaking.

http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2009/06/03/judge-sotomayor-and-race.aspx

]]> By: jonah http://snarkybytes.com/2009/06/29/did-sotomayor-just-get-blackballed/#comment-1094 jonah Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:44:25 +0000 http://snarkybytes.com/?p=3843#comment-1094 Wasn't she just one of three judges on the 2d Cir. panel to affirm the lower court decision? The panel voted 3-0, and did so based on existing precedent in the circuit, plus a 78-page lower cour decision. So I'm not sure how she is accused of not "acting correctly." The decision could have gone either way. If she voted the other way, the panel would have been 2-1, with Ricci still losing his appeal. "She said she and the other two judges on the panel unanimously decided the case on the basis of a thorough, 78-page decision by the District Court and on precedent from the second circuit court. " http://newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/07/sotomayor_leahy.php Wasn’t she just one of three judges on the 2d Cir. panel to affirm the lower court decision? The panel voted 3-0, and did so based on existing precedent in the circuit, plus a 78-page lower cour decision. So I’m not sure how she is accused of not “acting correctly.” The decision could have gone either way. If she voted the other way, the panel would have been 2-1, with Ricci still losing his appeal.

“She said she and the other two judges on the panel unanimously decided the case on the basis of a thorough, 78-page decision by the District Court and on precedent from the second circuit court. ” http://newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/07/sotomayor_leahy.php

]]> By: Rabbit http://snarkybytes.com/2009/06/29/did-sotomayor-just-get-blackballed/#comment-1092 Rabbit Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:51:39 +0000 http://snarkybytes.com/?p=3843#comment-1092 When lately have the upper and lower houses of our government paid any mind to the wishes and demands of the represented population? Congress and the Senate want it, they get it. Just wait until November 2, 2010 and see what they get. Regards, Rabbit. When lately have the upper and lower houses of our government paid any mind to the wishes and demands of the represented population?

Congress and the Senate want it, they get it.

Just wait until November 2, 2010 and see what they get.

Regards,
Rabbit.

]]> By: Crotalus http://snarkybytes.com/2009/06/29/did-sotomayor-just-get-blackballed/#comment-1093 Crotalus Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:12:09 +0000 http://snarkybytes.com/?p=3843#comment-1093 I doubt that the Justices will be able to stop her nomination, as we have a Soviet Premier, and a Soviet Congress. I doubt that the Justices will be able to stop her nomination, as we have a Soviet Premier, and a Soviet Congress.

]]> By: Old NFO http://snarkybytes.com/2009/06/29/did-sotomayor-just-get-blackballed/#comment-1091 Old NFO Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:38:14 +0000 http://snarkybytes.com/?p=3843#comment-1091 Probably the opposite... The "spin" is this will have NO impact on her confirmation, since it was a 5-4 and ol Green Teeth Ginsburg gave a "resounding" rebuke from the bench... sigh... Probably the opposite… The “spin” is this will have NO impact on her confirmation, since it was a 5-4 and ol Green Teeth Ginsburg gave a “resounding” rebuke from the bench… sigh…

]]> By: Cemetery's Gun Blob http://snarkybytes.com/2009/06/29/did-sotomayor-just-get-blackballed/#comment-1090 Cemetery's Gun Blob Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:06:31 +0000 http://snarkybytes.com/?p=3843#comment-1090 Who you foolin'? This will fast track her.... Who you foolin’?

This will fast track her….

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