Question of the Day

(Q)  Do you think that Judge Sonia Sotomayor is qualified to sit on the United States Supreme Court ? Please elucidate pro or con .

Comments

[west_rhino]

As qualified as Robert Bork and most of the other SCOTUS nominees that were not confirmed.

[Rain]

As qualified as Alito or many other high court judges that were bumped up. What got me with Alito is he replaced a centrist conservative. Sotomayor is replacing a liberal so it's keeping the balance constant which didn't happen with Alito. No matter what happens with this nominee, there are 5 conservative judges, 4 extremely so.

[Paul]

Don't you just wish it was solely about the law ??

[Rain]

It never will be though, not for the right or the left. These judges all bring with them their viewpoint. They can try to overlook it and see the law purely but we have seen time and again that they do not. A judge who believes abortion is wrong is bound to look for a way to ban it and in reverse.

[Ingineer66]

I think I would be a good supreme court judge. I could rule on the law without bias or prejudice, but that means I would probably not ever get nominated. I wanted to be a lawyer when I first went to college. Didn't happen that way though.

[Ingineer66]

The one thing I would like to see brought up at the hearings is how she is proud to be in a club that does not admit men. If a male candidate was in a club that did not admit women there would be protests all over the place.

[Rain]

You have a political viewpoint also, ingineer and you would find it impacting how you saw those laws. Many have to be interpreted which is why you have a Supreme Court.

She resigned from that club after the nomination-- because there was so much flak. The problem with those clubs is not that they are wrong for men to want to socialize with other men free of the distractions, but so often they led to business deals that kept out minorities and women. If they had been purely social, my bet is they'd have received less bad publicity. Regardless, she got as much hassle over hers as any man would over his.

[west_rhino]

"Don't you just wish it was solely about the law ??"

Paul, I think Lindsey Graham nailed it with his quip that the hearings were politics. Were that it was solely about the law, Senators would have no reason to bloviate as they have over the years.

[Paul]

The lady is qualified. And I came to like her just as Senator Graham said that he has done. However, I still want to hear more of what she has to say...