09 Aug 09
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Well I know you have all been waiting hanging on the edge of your seats as to whether judge Sotomayor would be confirmed as one of the Supremes. LOL. Well she has been!!
Now for the predictions. On the rictor statist scale of progressivism, what does she rank 1-10 currently? Also, after her tenure on the bench, how will she be rated? I'll go out on a limb and say a 10. She will do the statists proud.
09 Aug 09
Originally posted by whodeyI'd guess about an 8... something along the lines of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Maybe she'll pleasantly surprise us though, you never know. She's an intelligent person and, from what I can tell, a solid jurist, a dumb comment or two here and there notwithstanding.
Well I know you have all been waiting hanging on the edge of your seats as to whether judge Sotomayor would be confirmed as one of the Supremes. LOL. Well she has been!!
Now for the predictions. On the rictor statist scale of progressivism, what does she rank 1-10 currently? Also, after her tenure on the bench, how will she be rated? I'll go out on a limb and say a 10. She will do the statists proud.
A 10 would want to get rid of things like police officers, prisons and the military.
09 Aug 09
Originally posted by whodeyShe is a 10 on that scale. Gun rights then property rights issues will be comming up soon. Those that have no use for firearms but own property should start looking ahead a bit. The fact that she is a Latina is about the only neat thing about it that I can see.
Well I know you have all been waiting hanging on the edge of your seats as to whether judge Sotomayor would be confirmed as one of the Supremes. LOL. Well she has been!!
Now for the predictions. On the rictor statist scale of progressivism, what does she rank 1-10 currently? Also, after her tenure on the bench, how will she be rated? I'll go out on a limb and say a 10. She will do the statists proud.
09 Aug 09
Originally posted by joe beyserThe thing is that her vote barely counts. In fact Kennedy's vote is really the only vote that does count on right-left political issues. It's hard for me to see Thomas, Alito, Roberts or Scalia crossing to the "liberal" side before Kennedy and it's equally hard to see Stevens, Ginsburg, Sotomayor or Breyer crossing to the conservative side before Kennedy.
She is a 10 on that scale. Gun rights then property rights issues will be comming up soon. Those that have no use for firearms but own property should start looking ahead a bit. The fact that she is a Latina is about the only neat thing about it that I can see.
It does happen occasionally as judges have their pet peeves (Scalia crosses to the liberal side, for example, to broadly give criminal defendants rights that appear in the Constitutional text). But it's rare for an 5-4 decision to not have Kennedy on the winning side.
10 Aug 09
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Originally posted by whodeyShe'll be above average. All Supreme court judges generally do a good job.😏
Well I know you have all been waiting hanging on the edge of your seats as to whether judge Sotomayor would be confirmed as one of the Supremes. LOL. Well she has been!!
Now for the predictions. On the rictor statist scale of progressivism, what does she rank 1-10 currently? Also, after her tenure on the bench, how will she be rated? I'll go out on a limb and say a 10. She will do the statists proud.