Comments on: Sotomayor ‘Unpredictable’? Only If You Don’t Read the Court Decisions http://demockracy.com/sotomayor-unpredictable-only-if-you-dont-read-the-court-decisions/ Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:23:22 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Let’s Talk About Sonia Sotomayor Like Grown-Ups | Demockracy http://demockracy.com/sotomayor-unpredictable-only-if-you-dont-read-the-court-decisions/comment-page-1/#comment-1350 Let’s Talk About Sonia Sotomayor Like Grown-Ups | Demockracy Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:45:35 +0000 http://demockracy.com/?p=5267#comment-1350 [...] As I wrote a few weeks ago, if there’s anything the media love when reporting on the law, it’s simplicity, either because they don’t understand or don’t have the column-inches for thorough understanding. The umpire analogy was well-received by the mainstream media: “We’re Americans, we understand baseball, but we don’t understand the federal judiciary. Judges make rulings; umpires make rulings. Therefore, umpires are like baseball judges, right?” [...] [...] As I wrote a few weeks ago, if there’s anything the media love when reporting on the law, it’s simplicity, either because they don’t understand or don’t have the column-inches for thorough understanding. The umpire analogy was well-received by the mainstream media: “We’re Americans, we understand baseball, but we don’t understand the federal judiciary. Judges make rulings; umpires make rulings. Therefore, umpires are like baseball judges, right?” [...]

]]> By: Kevin Van Dyke, Editor http://demockracy.com/sotomayor-unpredictable-only-if-you-dont-read-the-court-decisions/comment-page-1/#comment-1335 Kevin Van Dyke, Editor Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:11:02 +0000 http://demockracy.com/?p=5267#comment-1335 The argument against Sotomayor is tired. The more I think about it, the more I realize how brilliant a political pick this was. Obama basically is playing chicken with the GOP daring them to come out in force against Sotomayor. This nomination basically guarantees a few months of Rush and Newt and Pat Buchanan being the leading voices of the GOP in this primetime fight as they ruthlessly attack the first Hispanic and third woman to be appointed to the court while those still in office remain silent. Also, according to your favorite lefty blogger/lawyer, Glenn Greenwald, Sotomayor was probably the most liberal of his final four. Granted, she's no Stevens, but Stevens wasn't Stevens when he was nominated either. The argument against Sotomayor is tired.

The more I think about it, the more I realize how brilliant a political pick this was. Obama basically is playing chicken with the GOP daring them to come out in force against Sotomayor. This nomination basically guarantees a few months of Rush and Newt and Pat Buchanan being the leading voices of the GOP in this primetime fight as they ruthlessly attack the first Hispanic and third woman to be appointed to the court while those still in office remain silent.

Also, according to your favorite lefty blogger/lawyer, Glenn Greenwald, Sotomayor was probably the most liberal of his final four. Granted, she’s no Stevens, but Stevens wasn’t Stevens when he was nominated either.

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