Only 3 Days To Stop Sotomayor!
SOTOMAYOR’S CONFIRMATION VOTE RESCHEDULED - HERE’S WHY
http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd457.htm
“…However, it all comes down to this ( aside from Sotomayor being judicially unqualified and a racist ): Sotomayor is involved in a bankruptcy fraud scheme and she lied through omission on the questionnaire to the Senate Judiciary Committee to cover it up…”
Call, Fax & Write Your Senators…Nix that, ALL Senators!
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Sotomayor Outside Panel Confirmation Hearings ( CSPAN Video Clip )
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=287762-105&showVid=true&clipStart=2341.00&clipStop=3023.00
NRA Joint Statement On Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s Nomination To The United States Supreme Court - http://bit.ly/gxHcy
Sotomayor Ruled That States Do Not Have to Obey Second Amendment
Thursday, May 28, 2009
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=48718
Judge Sotomayor, a New York native, ruled on a Second Circuit Appeals Court panel that the Second Amendment is not a fundamental right and does not apply to the states in the case of Maloney v. Cuomo. This ruling is in direct conflict with a Ninth Circuit Court ruling in the Nordyke v. King case in California that the Second Amendment is incorporated through the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Sona Sotomayor is a graduate from Princeton University, where her legal thesis included Race in the American Classroom, and Undying Injustice: ‘‘Exceptionalism’’ and Permanent Bigotry, and Deadly Obsession: American Gun Culture. In this text Sotomayor explained that the Second Amendment to the Constitution did not actually afford individual citzens the right to bear arms, but only conferred organizations, like the military. Instead of making guns illegal, she argues they have been illegal for individuals to own since the passing of the Bill of Rights.
SCOTUS by Fred Thompson
Confirmation hearings for Sotomayor pointless, waste of time http://is.gd/1CeBm
Bork Explains Why Sotomayor Must Not Sit On SCOTUS http://tinyurl.com/mczytn
Sotomayor Keeps Innocent Man ( Jeffrey Deskovic ) In Jail 6 More Years After He Was Proven Innocent Due To A Mistake Of A Court Clerk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1rtzci7ruk&feature=player_embedded
Sotomayor: “Empathy” In Action by Thomas Sowell http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/05/27/sotomayor__empathy_in_action
“Empathy” Verses Law Parts I, II, III & IV by Dr. Thomas Sowell http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/05/05/empathy_versus_law
“Out of Context” by Thomas Sowell http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/06/02/out_of_context
“Out of Context” Part II http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/06/03/out_of_context_part_ii
“Out of Context” Part III http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/06/04/out_of_context_part_iii
Equality or Pay-back? By Thomas Sowell http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/06/16/equality_or_pay-back
Equality On Trial http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/07/01/equality_on_trial
Sotomayor Has Record That Doesn’t Inspire http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=331339513120698
The Soprano State by Ingle and McClure. Page 211 and the following two pages. The Selma case was an atrocity, so much for her judicial integrity.
About Sonia Sotomayor http://aboutsoniasotomayor.com/
Sotomayor and the Sordid Business of Race http://blog.heritage.org/2009/07/16/sotomayor-and-the-sordid-business-of-race/
More on Sotomayor’s Radical Ties to the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF) http://www.gunslot.com/pictures/more-sotomayors-radical-ties-puerto-rican-legal-defense-and-education-fund-prldef
Judge Sotomayor’s racial hierarchy http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/06/judge_sotomayors_racial_hierar.html
Judicial Watch Releases Special Report on Judge Sotomayor’s Connection to the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund Sotomayor Served as the “Top Policy Maker” on the Board of Directors of the Leftist PRLDEF for 12 Years. The PRLDEF bills itself as an organization that provides legal services to the Latino community. However, the organization’s activities reflect a commitment to the worst aspects of liberal judicial activism: identity politics, race baiting, and ethnic favoritism.” http://www.judicialwatch.org/news/2009/jun/judicial-watch-releases-special-report-judge-sotomayors-connection-puerto-rican-legal-
Sonia Sotomayor ‘La Raza member’
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=99420
An Absolut Outrage
“A key player in the “Reconquista” movement is the National Council of La Raza. Its motto: “For the Race, everything. For those outside the Race, nothing.”“
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=292547767868120
Exclusive: The Truth About ‘La Raza’
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=13863
McCain To Speak At La Raza Convention
http://www.congresscheck.com/tag/la-raza/
La Raza -Chicano Activism in California
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc0904/article_766.shtml
What is MECha
http://www.mayorno.com/WhoIsMecha.html
Mexica Movement
http://www.mexica-movement.org/
Stressing Sotomayor’s Life, Not Her Liberalism
http://www.mrc.org/realitycheck/realitycheck/2009/20090527021609.aspx
Sotomayor Calls Herself Liberal, Even When the Times Won’t
http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2009/20090527141805.aspx
Sonia Sotomayor - Taney http://spectator.org/archives/2009/05/28/sonia-sotomayor-taney
Firefighters Case: What Really Happened. The More You Examine The New Haven Affirmative Action Case, The More The Indefensible It Looks. http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/or_20090613_4064.php
Sonia Sotomayor’s ‘empathy’ isn’t all it’s cracked up to be http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/23724.html
“The White House is sure to argue that Sotomayor is a “bipartisan pick” because Bush 41 appointed her to the district court: President George H.W. Bush nominated Sotomayor in 1991 only because the New York senators had forced on the White House a deal that enabled Senator Moynihan to name one of every four district court nominees in New York. In 1998, 29 Republican senators voted against President Clinton’s nomination of Sotomayor to the Second Circuit.”
Sotomayor’s supplied quote for her Princeton 1976 yearbook photograph: “I am not a champion of lost causes, but of causes not yet won.” – Norman Thomas ( Socialist ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Thomas
“...The most consistent concern was that Sotomayor, although an able lawyer, was “not that smart and kind of a bully on the bench,” as one former Second Circuit clerk for another judge put it. “She has an inflated opinion of herself, and is domineering during oral arguments, but her questions aren’t penetrating and don’t get to the heart of the issue.” (During one argument, an elderly judicial colleague is said to have leaned over and said, “Will you please stop talking and let them talk?”)...”
The Case Against Sotomayor
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=45d56e6f-f497-4b19-9c63-04e10199a085
Sotomayor former clerk: “She is a rule-bound pragmatist—very geared toward determining what the right answer is and what the law dictates, but her general approach is, unsurprisingly, influenced by her unique background…”
( Trying to obtain the right answer by starting from a position of subjectivity is like trying not to get wet AFTER jumping in water. )
The Case Against Sotomayor
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=45d56e6f-f497-4b19-9c63-04e10199a085
Sonia Sotomayor’s Troubling Background
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/more-background-on-sotomayors-racism
Substantial questions also persist regarding Judge Sotomayor’s temperament and disposition to be a Supreme Court justice. Lawyers who have appeared before her have described her as a “bully” who “does not have a very good temperament,” and who “abuses lawyers” with “inappropriate outbursts.”
“All of the legal defense funds out there, they’re looking for people with Court of Appeals experience. Because it is — Court of Appeals IS WHERE POLICY IS MADE. And I know, and I know, that this is on tape, and I should never say that. Because we don’t ‘make law,’ I know.”—Sonia Sotomayor
“The constant development of unprecedented problems requires a legal system capable of fluidity and pliancy. Our society would be strait-jacketed were not the courts, with the able assistance of the lawyers, constantly overhauling the law and adapting it to the realities of ever-changing social, industrial and political conditions; although changes cannot be made lightly, yet law must be more or less impermanent, experimental and therefore not nicely calculable. Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.”—Sonia Sotomayor
“Sotomayor also referred to the cardinal duty of judges to be impartial as a mere “aspiration because it denies the fact that we are by our experiences making different choices than others.”. And she suggested that “inherent physiological or cultural differences” may help explain why “our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.”
http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/print_friendly.php?ID=or_20090523_2724
“Judge [Miriam] Cedarbaum [of the federal District Court in New York]... believes that judges must transcend their personal sympathies and prejudices and aspire to achieve a greater degree of fairness and integrity based on the reason of law. Although I agree with and attempt to work toward Judge Cedarbaum’s aspiration, I wonder whether achieving that goal is possible in all or even in most cases. And I wonder whether by ignoring our differences as women or men of color we do a disservice both to the law and society. Whatever the reasons… we may have different perspectives, either as some theorists suggest because of our cultural experiences or as others postulate because we have basic differences in logic and reasoning….”
“Our experiences as women and people of color affect our decisions. The aspiration to impartiality is just that—it’s an aspiration because it denies the fact that we are by our experiences making different choices than others….
“Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, a possibility I abhor less or discount less than my colleague Judge Cedarbaum, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. Justice [Sandra Day] O’Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases…. I am… not so sure that I agree with the statement. First… there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”
Seven of Eight Sotomayor Decisions Reversed!
* Ricci v. DeStefano 530 F.3d 87 (2008) – SCOTUS reverses with unanimous reprimand civil rights of plaintiff’s weren’t even considered.
* Riverkeeper, Inc. vs. EPA, 475 F.3d 83 (2007) – Reversed 6-3 (Dissenting: Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg)
* Knight vs. Commissioner, 467 F.3d 149 (2006) – Upheld, but reasoning was unanimously faulted
* Dabit vs. Merrill Lynch, 395 F.3d 25 (2005) – Reversed 8-0
* Empire Healthchoice Assurance, Inc. vs. McVeigh, 396 F.3d 136 (2005) – Reversed 5-4 (Dissenting: Breyer, Kennedy, Souter, Alito)
* Malesko v. Correctional Services Corp., 299 F.3d 374 (2000) – Reversed 5-4 (Dissenting: Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer)
* Tasini vs. New York Times, et al, 972 F. Supp. 804 (1997) – Reversed 7-2 (Dissenting: Stevens, Breyer)
* The European Community vs. RJR Nabisco, 355 F.3d 123 (2004) – Judgment vacated and sent back to appeals court
Why did HW Bush Appoint her in the first place??
”...Sotomayor had wanted to become a judge since elementary school, and was being recommended for a spot by Democratic New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.[5] Moynihan had an arrangement with his fellow New York Senator, Republican Al D’Amato, whereby he would get to choose roughly one out of every four New York district court seats even though a Republican was in the White House.[37][55][56] Moynihan also wanted to fulfill a public promise he had made to get a Hispanic judge appointed for New York.[16] When Moynihan’s staff recommended her to him, they said “Have we got a judge for you!”[5] Moynihan became convinced she would become the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice.[9] D’Amato became an enthusiastic backer of Sotomayor as well,[57][58] who was seen as politically centrist at the time.[5][16] Of the impending drop in salary from private practice, Sotomayor said: “I’ve never wanted to get adjusted to my income because I knew I wanted to go back to public service. And in comparison to what my mother earns and how I was raised, it’s not modest at all.”[5]
Sotomayor was thus nominated on November 27, 1991, by President George H. W. Bush to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York vacated by John M. Walker, Jr.[4] Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, led by a friendly Democratic majority, went smoothly for her in June 1992, with her pro bono activities winning praise from Senator Ted Kennedy and her getting unanimous approval from the committee.[5][57][59] Then a Republican senator blocked her nomination and that of three others for a while in retaliation for an unrelated block Democrats had put on another nominee.[57][60] D’Amato objected strongly;[60] some weeks later, the block was dropped and Sotomayor was confirmed by unanimous consent[43][57] by the full United States Senate on August 11, 1992, and received her commission the next day…”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor
Sotomayor Supported Censoring Biblical Verse on Homosexuality from New York City Billboard http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=50678
Sotomayor Overturned Prison Regulations to Allow Santeria-Practicing Convicts to Wear Beads http://www.cnsnews.com/public/Content/Article.aspx?rsrcid=49870
http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd457.htm
“…However, it all comes down to this ( aside from Sotomayor being judicially unqualified and a racist ): Sotomayor is involved in a bankruptcy fraud scheme and she lied through omission on the questionnaire to the Senate Judiciary Committee to cover it up…”
Call, Fax & Write Your Senators…Nix that, ALL Senators!
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Sotomayor Outside Panel Confirmation Hearings ( CSPAN Video Clip )
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=287762-105&showVid=true&clipStart=2341.00&clipStop=3023.00
NRA Joint Statement On Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s Nomination To The United States Supreme Court - http://bit.ly/gxHcy
Sotomayor Ruled That States Do Not Have to Obey Second Amendment
Thursday, May 28, 2009
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=48718
Judge Sotomayor, a New York native, ruled on a Second Circuit Appeals Court panel that the Second Amendment is not a fundamental right and does not apply to the states in the case of Maloney v. Cuomo. This ruling is in direct conflict with a Ninth Circuit Court ruling in the Nordyke v. King case in California that the Second Amendment is incorporated through the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Sona Sotomayor is a graduate from Princeton University, where her legal thesis included Race in the American Classroom, and Undying Injustice: ‘‘Exceptionalism’’ and Permanent Bigotry, and Deadly Obsession: American Gun Culture. In this text Sotomayor explained that the Second Amendment to the Constitution did not actually afford individual citzens the right to bear arms, but only conferred organizations, like the military. Instead of making guns illegal, she argues they have been illegal for individuals to own since the passing of the Bill of Rights.
SCOTUS by Fred Thompson
Confirmation hearings for Sotomayor pointless, waste of time http://is.gd/1CeBm
Bork Explains Why Sotomayor Must Not Sit On SCOTUS http://tinyurl.com/mczytn
Sotomayor Keeps Innocent Man ( Jeffrey Deskovic ) In Jail 6 More Years After He Was Proven Innocent Due To A Mistake Of A Court Clerk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1rtzci7ruk&feature=player_embedded
Sotomayor: “Empathy” In Action by Thomas Sowell http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/05/27/sotomayor__empathy_in_action
“Empathy” Verses Law Parts I, II, III & IV by Dr. Thomas Sowell http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/05/05/empathy_versus_law
“Out of Context” by Thomas Sowell http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/06/02/out_of_context
“Out of Context” Part II http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/06/03/out_of_context_part_ii
“Out of Context” Part III http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/06/04/out_of_context_part_iii
Equality or Pay-back? By Thomas Sowell http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/06/16/equality_or_pay-back
Equality On Trial http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/07/01/equality_on_trial
Sotomayor Has Record That Doesn’t Inspire http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=331339513120698
The Soprano State by Ingle and McClure. Page 211 and the following two pages. The Selma case was an atrocity, so much for her judicial integrity.
About Sonia Sotomayor http://aboutsoniasotomayor.com/
Sotomayor and the Sordid Business of Race http://blog.heritage.org/2009/07/16/sotomayor-and-the-sordid-business-of-race/
More on Sotomayor’s Radical Ties to the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF) http://www.gunslot.com/pictures/more-sotomayors-radical-ties-puerto-rican-legal-defense-and-education-fund-prldef
Judge Sotomayor’s racial hierarchy http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/06/judge_sotomayors_racial_hierar.html
Judicial Watch Releases Special Report on Judge Sotomayor’s Connection to the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund Sotomayor Served as the “Top Policy Maker” on the Board of Directors of the Leftist PRLDEF for 12 Years. The PRLDEF bills itself as an organization that provides legal services to the Latino community. However, the organization’s activities reflect a commitment to the worst aspects of liberal judicial activism: identity politics, race baiting, and ethnic favoritism.” http://www.judicialwatch.org/news/2009/jun/judicial-watch-releases-special-report-judge-sotomayors-connection-puerto-rican-legal-
Sonia Sotomayor ‘La Raza member’
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=99420
An Absolut Outrage
“A key player in the “Reconquista” movement is the National Council of La Raza. Its motto: “For the Race, everything. For those outside the Race, nothing.”“
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=292547767868120
Exclusive: The Truth About ‘La Raza’
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=13863
McCain To Speak At La Raza Convention
http://www.congresscheck.com/tag/la-raza/
La Raza -Chicano Activism in California
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc0904/article_766.shtml
What is MECha
http://www.mayorno.com/WhoIsMecha.html
Mexica Movement
http://www.mexica-movement.org/
Stressing Sotomayor’s Life, Not Her Liberalism
http://www.mrc.org/realitycheck/realitycheck/2009/20090527021609.aspx
Sotomayor Calls Herself Liberal, Even When the Times Won’t
http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2009/20090527141805.aspx
Sonia Sotomayor - Taney http://spectator.org/archives/2009/05/28/sonia-sotomayor-taney
Firefighters Case: What Really Happened. The More You Examine The New Haven Affirmative Action Case, The More The Indefensible It Looks. http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/or_20090613_4064.php
Sonia Sotomayor’s ‘empathy’ isn’t all it’s cracked up to be http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/23724.html
“The White House is sure to argue that Sotomayor is a “bipartisan pick” because Bush 41 appointed her to the district court: President George H.W. Bush nominated Sotomayor in 1991 only because the New York senators had forced on the White House a deal that enabled Senator Moynihan to name one of every four district court nominees in New York. In 1998, 29 Republican senators voted against President Clinton’s nomination of Sotomayor to the Second Circuit.”
Sotomayor’s supplied quote for her Princeton 1976 yearbook photograph: “I am not a champion of lost causes, but of causes not yet won.” – Norman Thomas ( Socialist ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Thomas
“...The most consistent concern was that Sotomayor, although an able lawyer, was “not that smart and kind of a bully on the bench,” as one former Second Circuit clerk for another judge put it. “She has an inflated opinion of herself, and is domineering during oral arguments, but her questions aren’t penetrating and don’t get to the heart of the issue.” (During one argument, an elderly judicial colleague is said to have leaned over and said, “Will you please stop talking and let them talk?”)...”
The Case Against Sotomayor
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=45d56e6f-f497-4b19-9c63-04e10199a085
Sotomayor former clerk: “She is a rule-bound pragmatist—very geared toward determining what the right answer is and what the law dictates, but her general approach is, unsurprisingly, influenced by her unique background…”
( Trying to obtain the right answer by starting from a position of subjectivity is like trying not to get wet AFTER jumping in water. )
The Case Against Sotomayor
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=45d56e6f-f497-4b19-9c63-04e10199a085
Sonia Sotomayor’s Troubling Background
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/more-background-on-sotomayors-racism
Substantial questions also persist regarding Judge Sotomayor’s temperament and disposition to be a Supreme Court justice. Lawyers who have appeared before her have described her as a “bully” who “does not have a very good temperament,” and who “abuses lawyers” with “inappropriate outbursts.”
“All of the legal defense funds out there, they’re looking for people with Court of Appeals experience. Because it is — Court of Appeals IS WHERE POLICY IS MADE. And I know, and I know, that this is on tape, and I should never say that. Because we don’t ‘make law,’ I know.”—Sonia Sotomayor
“The constant development of unprecedented problems requires a legal system capable of fluidity and pliancy. Our society would be strait-jacketed were not the courts, with the able assistance of the lawyers, constantly overhauling the law and adapting it to the realities of ever-changing social, industrial and political conditions; although changes cannot be made lightly, yet law must be more or less impermanent, experimental and therefore not nicely calculable. Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.”—Sonia Sotomayor
“Sotomayor also referred to the cardinal duty of judges to be impartial as a mere “aspiration because it denies the fact that we are by our experiences making different choices than others.”. And she suggested that “inherent physiological or cultural differences” may help explain why “our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.”
http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/print_friendly.php?ID=or_20090523_2724
“Judge [Miriam] Cedarbaum [of the federal District Court in New York]... believes that judges must transcend their personal sympathies and prejudices and aspire to achieve a greater degree of fairness and integrity based on the reason of law. Although I agree with and attempt to work toward Judge Cedarbaum’s aspiration, I wonder whether achieving that goal is possible in all or even in most cases. And I wonder whether by ignoring our differences as women or men of color we do a disservice both to the law and society. Whatever the reasons… we may have different perspectives, either as some theorists suggest because of our cultural experiences or as others postulate because we have basic differences in logic and reasoning….”
“Our experiences as women and people of color affect our decisions. The aspiration to impartiality is just that—it’s an aspiration because it denies the fact that we are by our experiences making different choices than others….
“Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, a possibility I abhor less or discount less than my colleague Judge Cedarbaum, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. Justice [Sandra Day] O’Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases…. I am… not so sure that I agree with the statement. First… there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”
Seven of Eight Sotomayor Decisions Reversed!
* Ricci v. DeStefano 530 F.3d 87 (2008) – SCOTUS reverses with unanimous reprimand civil rights of plaintiff’s weren’t even considered.
* Riverkeeper, Inc. vs. EPA, 475 F.3d 83 (2007) – Reversed 6-3 (Dissenting: Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg)
* Knight vs. Commissioner, 467 F.3d 149 (2006) – Upheld, but reasoning was unanimously faulted
* Dabit vs. Merrill Lynch, 395 F.3d 25 (2005) – Reversed 8-0
* Empire Healthchoice Assurance, Inc. vs. McVeigh, 396 F.3d 136 (2005) – Reversed 5-4 (Dissenting: Breyer, Kennedy, Souter, Alito)
* Malesko v. Correctional Services Corp., 299 F.3d 374 (2000) – Reversed 5-4 (Dissenting: Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer)
* Tasini vs. New York Times, et al, 972 F. Supp. 804 (1997) – Reversed 7-2 (Dissenting: Stevens, Breyer)
* The European Community vs. RJR Nabisco, 355 F.3d 123 (2004) – Judgment vacated and sent back to appeals court
Why did HW Bush Appoint her in the first place??
”...Sotomayor had wanted to become a judge since elementary school, and was being recommended for a spot by Democratic New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.[5] Moynihan had an arrangement with his fellow New York Senator, Republican Al D’Amato, whereby he would get to choose roughly one out of every four New York district court seats even though a Republican was in the White House.[37][55][56] Moynihan also wanted to fulfill a public promise he had made to get a Hispanic judge appointed for New York.[16] When Moynihan’s staff recommended her to him, they said “Have we got a judge for you!”[5] Moynihan became convinced she would become the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice.[9] D’Amato became an enthusiastic backer of Sotomayor as well,[57][58] who was seen as politically centrist at the time.[5][16] Of the impending drop in salary from private practice, Sotomayor said: “I’ve never wanted to get adjusted to my income because I knew I wanted to go back to public service. And in comparison to what my mother earns and how I was raised, it’s not modest at all.”[5]
Sotomayor was thus nominated on November 27, 1991, by President George H. W. Bush to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York vacated by John M. Walker, Jr.[4] Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, led by a friendly Democratic majority, went smoothly for her in June 1992, with her pro bono activities winning praise from Senator Ted Kennedy and her getting unanimous approval from the committee.[5][57][59] Then a Republican senator blocked her nomination and that of three others for a while in retaliation for an unrelated block Democrats had put on another nominee.[57][60] D’Amato objected strongly;[60] some weeks later, the block was dropped and Sotomayor was confirmed by unanimous consent[43][57] by the full United States Senate on August 11, 1992, and received her commission the next day…”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor
Sotomayor Supported Censoring Biblical Verse on Homosexuality from New York City Billboard http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=50678
Sotomayor Overturned Prison Regulations to Allow Santeria-Practicing Convicts to Wear Beads http://www.cnsnews.com/public/Content/Article.aspx?rsrcid=49870
