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It won't be as exciting as Long Dong Silver and Judge Clarence Thomas, but should still make for fine summer entertainment until football starts.
I have little doubt she'll be confirmed.
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It won't be as exciting as Long Dong Silver and Judge Clarence Thomas, but should still make for fine summer entertainment until football starts.

The football session has already begun here!

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And they agreed the case was handled inappropriately. That is fact.

But there is a mystery in Sotomayor's recent history: a brief, unsigned opinion in the difficult race case now before the Supreme Court, Ricci v. DeStefano. Sotomayor punted when Ricci came before her, to such a degree that she raised more questions than she answered.

In an unusual short and unsigned opinion, a panel of three judges, including Sotomayor, adopted the district court judge's ruling without adding their own analysis. As Judge Jose Cabranes put it, in protesting this ruling later in the appeals process, "Indeed, the opinion contains no reference whatsoever to the constitutional claims at the core of this case. … This perfunctory disposition rests uneasily with the weighty issues presented by this appeal."

If Sotomayor and her colleagues were trying to shield the case from Supreme Court review, her punt had the opposite effect.

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That would be Judge Jose Cabranes, a Clinton appointee. And it's nice that Ms. Sotomayor didn't want to legislate from the bench. But one still has to follow proper procedure, and those involved in the case still deserved an opinion/answer as to why they were rejected. She should have handled it professionally, instead of like amateur-hour. The Supreme Court of the United States ins't a place for such amateurs.

It is actually quite common for an appellate court to affirm a lower court without adding anything, in effect adopting the lower court's reasoning.

  • Free speech: "You can say what you want, but I don't have to lend you my megaphone."
  • Always remember that when you are in the right you can afford to keep your temper, and when you are in the wrong you cannot afford to lose it. - J.J. Reynolds.
  • Will the steps anyone is proposing to fight "climate change" reduce a single temperature, by a single degree, at a single location?
  • The mantra of "world opinion" or the views of the "international community" betrays flabby and weak reasoning (link).

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Charlie Crist Republican Governor of Florida is such a reverse racist. It is like he listens too much to reverse racist Sotomayor damn republicans.

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Charlie Crist ran afoul of the state Constitution when he refused to fill an appeals court seat because all of the picks submitted to him were white, the Florida Supreme Court unanimously ruled.

The high court also ruled Thursday that Crist must make a judicial selection from the all-white list of six names for the Fifth District Court of Appeal in Daytona Beach.

Crist, complaining Dec. 1 that none of ''three well-qualified African-Americans'' made the cut, asked the nominating commission to send him more names. But the commission refused.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/71230.html

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It is actually quite common for an appellate court to affirm a lower court without adding anything, in effect adopting the lower court's reasoning.

Appellate courts expediting their caseloads is a wise way to discourage litigants of abusing judicial procedures.

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