That rea-world-experience was a good part of what Thurgood Marshall brought to the Court, and it is needed now desperately.

When a SCOTUS male justice can say, in the hearing of a case of a school strip-searching a pubescent girl, that such a thing is no big deal, no worse than changing clothes in gym class (paraphrasing, too worked up to search up a link), you know real-world and real-woman experience is sorely needed.

The current justices have very little practical, representing people-clients (as opposed to corporate) experience, and many of their decisions make that painfully obvious, failing to recognize that their ivory-tower theory is not borne out in the ‘real world.”
I don’t care if she isn’t brilliant (but you don’t graduate at the top of your class because you were a “quota admittee”) if she can bring that experience and convey it to the tower-dwellers.
So far, I’m for her.
(disclosure-although born more-or-less-a-WASP-or a hillbilly, take your pick, for 22 years I’ve been a part of a Hispanic family, Mexican-American in this case. Possibly a slight bias on my part. *g*)

so many times she just mucks up the works, and i have a feeling this was one of them.

(i am not a fan, and don’t know how in the hell she got to the head of the line..have always wondered. i think she’s dumber than a rock boehner.)

she used trite/generic/doublespeak phrases to describe sotomayer. maybe she’s throwing the ‘chum’ ….

it’s possible.

she could handle that.

maybe that’s her role, i never thought of it that way….a chum thrower.

(posted this in the next thread by mistake, so, it’s a double-long one)

thad bingel
she’s not a bipartidan choice.

other guy–moderate, at least 70 votes. brilliant legal mind. another home run decision. someone who will gather bipartisan support.

thad–not moderate, more liberal that was on the short list, conventional pick. left of chenter pres, liberal leaning judge….

moderator–hispanics fastest voter group/

other guy–superb judge superb background

the best in country?/

other guy–political issues, real solid basis for opposing her, robers was brilliant, here it’s very similar..with impeccable credentials, latino, added plus, woman as well, repub need really god reason to go agiant her

rebubs don’t have #s/

thad–really rough to stop nomination…judicial philosophies to interpret not empathy (of what you want law to be) …….laying ground work for future battles in this presidency.

ok, done. same keywords by all….brilliant, incredible story-so what, liberal schools, temperament-ie woman, woman, latina, tried the ‘is she the best in the land’ thing, woman, latina, emotional-oh, that was simply implied, compelling personal story….one brought up ginsberg and scalito’s friendship as an example of diametrically opposed people being aok with each other. dunno, i think they haven’t dropped the ‘fliers’ from the airplanes yet.

rove is on now….
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dmac May 26th, 2009 at 8:42 am
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forgot one–white men…..ha.

rove–
‘difficult colleague’

roadblock, on the other hand, judicial committee rules require that 10 votes in affirm to send to the floor, one from the minority…..will repubs say she is unworthy to be a sc justice….obama voted against roberts and alito…voted to filibuster alito..

comment to schumer’s comments–prejudging, easy for obama to vote against two of the most accomplished judges, footage of her at duke-we make law and policy, berkely-white men judges. we’re gonna have all kinds of interesting things that will play out…(i bet)
someone who is controversial, a chance to appoint a woman and a latino, sensitive to criticisms, never going to be stronger as he is today.

fini.