G.O.P. Senators Planning To Question Sotomayor's Impartiality

New York Times:

The day before Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings were to begin, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee signaled on Sunday that they would question her ability to be impartial, based on previous statements she has made about her background.

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Comments

[Whinger]

12:07 PM on 07/13/2009

Impartiality is not on the GOP to do list.

[WmC]

12:04 PM on 07/13/2009

Just as it's well known that reality has a liberal bias, it's equally well known that only white men can be totally "impartial" when it comes to dispensing justice.

[Ponderus]

11:50 AM on 07/13/2009

THEIR impartiality is, of course, uh ---

unimpeachable.

To the tarpitswiththem!

[separatingwheatfromchaff]

11:24 AM on 07/13/2009

Yada, yada, yada, yada,Republicans talk,Americans puke.Why are they still pretending to be relevant?In all honesty they have taken their party and flushed it down the toilet.What ever happened to the thoughtful give and take between adversaries?I guess absolute power does corrupt absolutely.I hope Democrats are in tune to what happens when there are no controls or legalities to restrain a party.Now let's work on making the Supreme Court supreme again.Let's give a big welcome to Justice Sotomayor!

[Kassandra]

09:38 AM on 07/13/2009

One could only wish they would have dug as deeply into Roberts and Sc-Alito. Talk about activist judges!
Stare` decis, my ass!
But they got thru when there was a HUGE Republican majority marching lock-step behind Mr. Cheney.

[hortonhearsdawho]

09:43 AM on 07/13/2009

word...

[Nonamnesiac]

09:19 AM on 07/13/2009

As usual, the Republicans are selling something false one too many times. Except in places where people still want to fly the flag of the Slavederacy and cheer stupid White guys who charged up hills into walls of musket fire in order to spread slavery, lynchings and segregation, this "poor-White-guy" argument no longer is strong enough to sway most White-working class voters.

When Reagan (and Nixon before him) raised the "poor White guy" argument, it attracted many White union workers in the North and affected how they voted. But now most Whtie working class voters outside of the old Slavederacy know it has been deregulation, unbridled free trade, tax breaks for the wealthy, exporting of jobs abroad that have caused their economic condition to deteriorate, not affirmative action. Although they still dislike affirmative action, they no longer blame it for even a small percentage of their current condition. And although they know both parties are on-the-take and support the catechism of deregulation, unbridled free trade and export of manufacturing jobs, they know the Republicans initiated it and are more solidly in favor of those policies. So they'll hold their noses and vote for Democrats who support affirmative action in order to oppose the voodoo economics of the Republicans

[Kanuk1]

09:15 AM on 07/13/2009

what impartiality? she's a r@cist feminist and a radical lefty b*got

[hortonhearsdawho]

09:32 AM on 07/13/2009

looking at the kl.an in the mirror, ehh skippy...

[Icantbelieveher]

10:32 AM on 07/13/2009

Any minority that is President or a Supreme Court nominee or any kind of cabinet nominee is suspect according to the Republicans because they must have an agenda to boose minority rights! At the same time, republicans are so afraid that minorities will get equal rights that they are petrified that the government is becoming more diverse and representative of the diversity of the country! I'm a white female and my husband is a white male with no prejudices against allowing the government to becoming more representative of the nation.

[jumperpin]

09:14 AM on 07/13/2009

yawn

[mitsie]

08:42 AM on 07/13/2009

And I hope the latino organizations organize people in all states, as well as challenging all Republicans running for Congress and the Senate, to denounce Limbaugh's statements about Judge Sotomayer.

[Kanuk1]

09:16 AM on 07/13/2009

why?

[hortonhearsdawho]

09:34 AM on 07/13/2009

tell us why, little rushbo toril..

[Solja]

08:27 AM on 07/13/2009

Heyyyyy!!! Looky here, looky here! Look who has poked her head out to say, "It's High Time!"

http://larrykinglive.blogs.cnn.com/2009/07/12/lkl-web-exclusive-its-high-time-by-anita-f-hill/

[Bude]

08:06 AM on 07/13/2009

After she slaps them around for a couple of days, they'll come around.

[Tommygun264]

07:59 AM on 07/13/2009

The pubs have already beaten the flesh off this dead horse and ground the bones to dust. By continuing spout these long-since disputed charges of racism the pubs come off as mean-spirited bullies who are either questioning the intelligence of the American public by pretending this subject hasn't already been debated and settled in most people's minds, or bringing their own intelligence into question for lacking the mental capacity to reach an opinion after so many weeks. Keep up the cynical grandstanding pubs - people just love to see a bunch of rich old white guys ganging on a woman.

[viflyer]

07:03 AM on 07/13/2009

THere is something really funny about the Republican Party who's main civil rights concern is "reverse descrimination"
against white men.

LOL

[mamacat]

05:06 AM on 07/13/2009

What I want to know is, while those GOP Senators are questioning Sotomayor's suitability for office, are they going to be pawing each other's legs underneath the table, or are they going to wait until they go behind closed doors to engage in their hanky-panky?

[mitsie]

08:43 AM on 07/13/2009

Now that's funny. I sure wish we could find out who was groping don't you?

[ThankGodhesgone]

01:29 AM on 07/13/2009

What I don't understand is why a written test is the determinator of promotion. Other than the military (yes I was once in the military) what other organization uses written tests exclusively to promote people? I don't know if this was the only criteria used, but with 28 years in the private sector, I've never taken a test to get promoted. My pomotions were based on performance.

Doesn't this also apply to fireman and police officers? Anyone can study for a test. But performance should be the ultimate judge for promotion.

[thaneb]

01:38 AM on 07/13/2009

Your "anyone can study for a test" is actually an important part of the Ricci case IMO. Study materials were available to the white firefighters because they had family members in the department (e.g., Ricci had at least 2). Those study materials were back-ordered and not available to minority applicants until shortly before the test. (See dissenting opinon, Ricci). This fact seems to have been ignored by the majority in Ricci.

[Kanuk1]

09:18 AM on 07/13/2009

what a load of lefty pap - totally untrue - proven that the materials were available to everyone - your spin doesn't fly with anyone who doesn't need their fingers and toes to count