An example would be nice. Perhaps she is not liberal enough for the extreme left. If the criticism is coming from right and left extremes, that would be compelling evidence that she is considered a moderate by the moderates. She has been widely described as a moderate. It's not a black and white world, you have to see the shades of gray. Not everyone who stands to the left of center is a radical liberal. The moderate band is broad and it overlaps onto right and left and it is very gray. Conservatives are way behind the curve in recognizing that more Americans describe themselves as moderates than as liberals or conservatives. A moderate electorate, tired of partisan bickering, elected a moderate President who is pointedly pursuing policies aimed to please a moderate constituency. There are many ultra liberals as unhappy with that as are conservatives, but the Democratic party is leaning to the center, as it did under Clinton, while the Republicans are leaning further to the right extreme. Until a true moderate third party emerges, the political winner in this country will be the party that satisfies the middle. In what case did she exercise judicial activism? What exactly did she do? How many? And how many of the other Supremes have had cases reversed? This is something that happens in the legal system and is no disqualification in any sense. She's a good catholic. So you give her credit for bench activism in support of your pet cause? :huh: What evidence do you have for this? She just influenced a President.
Thank you. Sotomayor has a better than average record with the Supreme Court rulings. According to MediaMatters.org, the Supreme Court typically reverses about 75 percent of circuit court decisions that it chooses to rule upon. The reason that the reversal rate is so high, of course, is that the Supreme Court has a lot of discretion about which cases it chooses to review and rule upon, and is generally not inclined to overturn law dictated by a lower court unless the legal reasoning is substantially questionable and has a strong chance of reversal. A better parameter would be the number of decisions that the Supreme Court overturned out of all of Sotomayor's majority opinions -- whether the Court elected to review them in detail or not. Since joining the Second Circuit in 1998, Sotomayor has authored over 150 opinions in civil cases. That means the Supreme Court's reversal rate is not 60 percent, but at most 2 percent -- 3 cases out of 150.
I wasn't joking. In his final term, Bush made decisions based upon what he thought was best for the country, politics be damned. Do you think there would have been a surge in Iraq if he listened to the electorate?
im leery of anyone proud of their heritage. wtf is that all about? is it because there is nothing else to be proud about? im not proud to be a coonass. i love the culture, miss home and i am very interested in the history, but im not proud of it. am i missing something here or is it just semantics? when i hear that sotomayor is proud of being hispanic, i think that the pride clouds her ability to value other cultures, experiences and views not shared by her.
Those of you who are so worried and upset about the fact that she says, that judges make policy sometimes and empathy is a factor. Here you go.
