Sotomayor Confirmed by Senate, 68-31

Source: New York Times

Voting largely along party lines, the Senate on Thursday confirmed Judge Sonia Sotomayor as the 111th justice of the Supreme Court. She will be the first Hispanic and the third woman to serve on the court.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. was expected to administer the oath of office to Judge Sotomayor, 55, in the next few days, with a formal ceremony likely in September. She succeeds Justice David H. Souter, who retired in June.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/us/politics/07confirm.html?hp

Neither (hopefully) is Sotomeyer.

Alito, another right winger, was replacing the moderate Sandra Day Oconner.

One mountain climbed. Many more to go. Congratulation Sonia.

PB

What a bonehead.

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excuse me, I mean "Ms. Justice Sotomayor".

:thumbsup:

received a sentence of time served after a 45 minute oral back and forth about his involvement in the crime. She admitted to changing her mind about my client from the information she gathered from the oral argument and that convinced her to sentence him to time served.

I am sure I won't agree with her all of the time, but she is a thoughtful judge.

Nothing better than that, imo!

A good day for America, whether a portion of its populace realizes it, or not.


:applause: :patriot:

Nice to hear some good news! :toast:

...there's something very, very sad about the following:

"She will be the first Hispanic and the third woman to serve on the court."

Edit: And to be clear, I mean sad in the sense that it hasn't happened much, much sooner, on both counts.

I'm glad I was around for it, and that my sons can be "Well, yeah!" about it. They grew up in a far different world than I did, and I'm proud to have made sure that they did!

Congratulations to us all!

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should be. Thanks Dems and also thanks to the others who voted with us.

Yeah, I counted Justice Thomas as a white guy. What about it?

He's a disgrace to Thurgood Marshall's memory.

not fit to touch the hem of Justice Marshall's robe.

66% of Americans are white, excluding White Hispanic and Latino Americans x 49% male vs. female = 32% of the US population.

Cue the world's smallest :nopity: for white male college graduates.

I'm interested in a society where such disparities are a cause of concern, and if there is imbalance, we are working to rectify it.

People who mock the desire for a color-blind and gender-blind egalitarian society don't just slow down solving the problem, they *are* the problem.


In 2005/2006, women earned:
62.1% of Associate's degrees,
57.5% of Bachelor's degrees,
60.0% of Master's degrees
48.9% of Doctorates.

http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d07/tables/dt07_178.asp

In 2016/2017, women are projected to earn:
64.2% of Associate's degrees
59.9% of Bachelor's degrees
62.9% of Master's degrees
55.5% of Doctorates.

http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d07/tables/dt07_258.asp

I had hoped with Obama's election we would be inspired to start moving away from identify politics that favor a privileged elite class. So we "fix" past injustices by creating new ones? Demand advantage by reciting past victimizations?

That's just the same old bus with a new driver. A short bus. Driving around the same track, over and over.

Women may get more college degrees but that doesn't seem to translate into higher-paying or more responsible positions on the job market.

Women get 35% of MBAs but account for only 2% of CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. 95-97% of senior managers of Fortune 1000 Industrial and Fortune 500 companies are white and 95-97% are male.

Women occupy 16% of congressional seats and 0% of US Presidential seats.

16% of tenured university professors are women; 10-12% are minorities.

2% of Nobel Prizes in the past decade have gone to women.

About 10% of employed engineers are women.

Women represent less than 35% of all scientists and engineers employed in both the private and public sectors.

26% of State Court Judges are women (this percentage drops to the low teens for several states and in no state is higher than 41%).

Less than 30% of doctors are women, even though 50% of med school classes are female.

So how is it that 30+ years after the sexual revolution, women are still lagging so far behind men in positions of responsibility in so many areas?

80% of women have children and 45% become stay-at-home moms for at least some percentage of their child's life, greatly impacting their ability to return to the labor market in a comparable position. So at least 36% of all of those women earning higher degrees will not be competing in the labor market for a good chunk of their working life and most will be shuffled off to the mommy track when they try to return (if they can get a job at all).

Women with bachelor's degrees make only 12% more than men with high school diplomas. Men with bachelor's degrees make 47% more. Female high school graduates are the only demographic with an average salary that puts them below the poverty line for a family of four. So if women are a little more motivated to go to college and get a degree, perhaps the reasons are more understandable in context?

I'm sorry, but that 39% of white male college graduates is still not a cause for alarm in my eyes. I'll start sweating it when it drops under 32%, showing that white male graduates are genuinely underrepresented against the general population. And if your concern really is for a color-blind and egalitarian society, I don't see how you can discount the gob-smackingly awful statistics on women and minorities in positions of authority in this country and focus simply on degrees earned rather than degrees *used* to their full potential.

Women might get more degrees but they don't *use* more degrees and the degrees they do get don't take them as far in their jobs. Until those problems are addressed, it seems a little perverse to point to the sheer number of women in college (and only that number) and scream gender discrimination against males.

And no, I didn't "scream gender discrimination against males." Quite the opposite, actually. What I am in favor of is stopping the substitution of one privileged class for another. Treat all parties as deserving respect, and a helping hand, if asymmetrical trends are present. Anything else simply perpetuates the root malaise indefinitely.

Do you think you could have made your point without pissing on an entire class of people you've never met? Do you not see how that kind of thinking got us in trouble in the first place?

NO MORE TRIBALISM. It is the death of harmony and the fount of in-group/out-group hatreds.

Can't say it any clearer.

Sorry, I don't answer stats presented without *primary* source citations on a political board. Who controls the facts controls the argument.

That's news to me.

And since when is pointing out gross inequalities in a system "pissing" on anybody? I don't think it's a zero-sum game. I think it's a game that could be played a lot more fairly... and I think the inequality that you are pointing to is statistically much less significant than the numerous inequalities which I pointed to.

I simply don't believe that 39% white male college graduates when white men make up 32% of the population qualifies as an inequality *against* white men. If you choose to interpret that as "pissing" on white men, I'm afraid there's not much I can do at that point except wish you (and everybody) peace and prosperity in these difficult times.

kentucky can secede if they keep sending crap sacks like this to the senate.

Congratz,Justice Sotomayor!! :bounce:



knr! :)

She will be great!

Alexander of Tennessee
Bond of Missouri
Collins of Maine
Graham of South Carolina
Gregg of New Hampshire
Lugar of Indiana
Martinez of Florida
Snow of Maine
Voinovich of Ohio


Ted Kennedy was the only Senator not voting. Robert Byrd was literally wheeled in to vote.

That one was a surprise.

film at 11

yep you old racist fuck buchannan: A LATINA :7

Thank you, President Obama.
All good vibes to you, JUSTICE Sotomayor!

Viva la Revolucion!

That will come in handy the next time those fuckers are up for re-election. We sure as hell can't let people forget how they voted.

Personally I didn't support her nomination because what I will always believe to be HER racist statements. But at this point I can look beyond that to be happy for her. I wish her well in her new position.

They took an out of context quote from a speech that, if you listened to it in its entirety, said the exact opposite of what the Republicans were trying to portray. She also didn't say anything different that Alito did vis-a-vis their ethnicity.

Including the Judicial Code of Conduct. No one will ever change my mind on this. Now I'm trusting this self described Wise Latina to have learned from this and NEVER make that mistake again.

Alito got even more no votes than Sotomayor got. Were the Dems who opposed him also racists for voting against an Italian? I think that most of the no votes against Sotomayor were based on ideology, not race.

Here are the nine Republicans who voted "yea":

• Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.)
• Sen. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.)
• Sen. Christopher Bond (Mo.)
• Sen. Susan Collins (Maine)
• Sen. Olympia Snowe (Maine)
• Sen. Richard Lugar (Ind.)
• Sen. Mel Martinez (Fla.)
• Sen. Judd Gregg (N.H.)
• Sen. George V. Voinovich (Ohio)

for Ms. Sotomayor than he did for Obama.

:patriot:

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No you wouldn't! :eyes: :eyes:

I sense you'd be expecting a rational answer!:evilgrin:

yet this is the same quack who thought Sarah Palin was qualified for POTUS.

... but Palin was qualified to be VP!!

What a crock!!

:evilgrin:

has to go out of his way to woo Hispanic voters.

We can only hope that he's done.

...that he just doesn't give a fuck what Hispanic voters think.

Or at least that's what Tweety said today on Hardball.

The racists can SUCK IT!!! :woohoo:

The Democratic National Party should start exposing these Republican jerks right now. Ads should be running in every market with large Hispanic populations where these Republicans serve like Arizona, Texas, Florida, etc. It is a slap in the face to every Hispanic in this country and every effort should be made to expose these jerks. They don't deserve another vote from Latinos for what they did today!

The Republican party is a party of thugs.

It is and anyone with intelligence
will say that.
I need to post this for my archives.

That aside, despite her experience,
gender and ethnicity,as a progressive
I don't expect much from her.

She works hard and has more experience
as a judge than anyone else on that
court. I will give her that. She's
goal oriented and I'll give that also.
That she's voted more often with
conservatives doesn't make me
feel enthusiastic about her.
She's a historic marker. So was
Clarence Thomas in a way. We know
how that turned out.

Did I say that I was present in the
Supreme Court on Thomas's first day?

Yeah, I was. Liberty was there.

:patriot:

:dem:

-Laelth

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Justice Benjamin Cardozo, appointed by Hoover to replace Holmes in 1932, was the first hispanic.

Source: http://www.supremecourtus.gov/about/members.pdf

Not diminishing what happened today, just wanted to be accurate.

Edited for clarity and spelling errors.

....this makes me proud to be an American!