{"id":12093,"date":"2009-06-29T12:50:51","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T17:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=12093"},"modified":"2009-06-29T12:50:51","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T17:50:51","slug":"post-flakking-for-sotomayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12093","title":{"rendered":"Post flakking for Sotomayor"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve probably read that the Supreme Court overturned the lower appeals court decision against some New Haven, CT firefighters in what may turn out to be a landmark case. the best analysis I’ve seen of the decision is at Ace of Spades by Gabriel Malor here<\/a> and here<\/a>. The Washington Times<\/a> describes why decision is important in the short term;<\/p>\n

Judge Sotomayor, President Obama’s nominee to fill the seat of retiring Justice David Souter, was one of three judges who ruled in favor of New Haven and part of the majority that rejected a full hearing before the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.<\/p>\n

The ruling is already being seen as a hurdle Judge Sotomayor will have to overcome next month when she goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n

Rep. Tom Price, Georgia Republican and chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee, said the ruling is a reason to slow down her confirmation process and study her record. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Washington Post<\/a> Robert Barnes shows us what the next tactic to protect Sotomayor from Conservative charges that she’s out of touch with the Supreme Court and so doesn’t belong there.<\/p>\n

The New Haven case, Ricci v. DeStefano, has become the ruling that Sotomayor’s critics most point to for evidence that she lets her background influence her decisions, even though her role has been somewhat inflated. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Her role was somewhat inflated? What does that even mean? If she voted on a panel of judges and she had the same number of votes as the other judges, how did Conservatives inflate her role?<\/p>\n

Then Barnes writes;<\/p>\n

The case then went to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, where Sotomayor and judges Robert Sack and Rosemary S. Pooler heard the appeal. Oral arguments lasted an hour, with Sotomayor leading the questioning, as is her reputation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She was one third of a panel and lead the questioning. What’s to inflate about that? Stupid Washington Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You’ve probably read that the Supreme Court overturned the lower appeals court decision against some New … Post flakking for Sotomayor<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}