Sotomayor Quits All-Women's Club After GOP Criticism

Sotomayor Quits Belizean Grove


MARK SHERMAN | June 19, 2009 07:48 PM EST | AP


WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor resigned Friday from an elite all-women's club after Republicans questioned her participation in it. Sotomayor said she resigned from the Belizean Grove to prevent the issue from becoming a distraction in her confirmation hearings.

In a letter to Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the federal appeals court judge said she is convinced that the club does not practice "invidious discrimination" and that her membership in it did not violate judicial ethics.

But she said she didn't want questions about it to "distract anyone from my qualifications and record."

Federal judges are bound by a code that says they shouldn't join any organization that discriminates by race, sex, religion or nationality.

The Belizean Grove bills itself as women's answer to the 130-year-old all-male Bohemian Club in California. The club owns a 2,500-acre camping area in northern California called the Grove. Chief Justice Earl Warren belonged to the Bohemian Club beginning in the 1940s, before he joined the court and long before the federal judiciary adopted a code of conduct.

"The Belizean Grove is a constellation of influential women who are key decision makers in the profit, non-profit and social sectors; who build long term mutually beneficial relationships in order to both take charge of their own destinies and help others to do the same," the group says on its Web site. There are about 115 members, the club says.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/19/sotomayor-quits-belizean-_n_218307.html

I'm shocked -- shocked, I tell ya!

Or do centrists cave quicker?

;-)

But, some battles are worth fighting and others are a waste of time.

Her jumping out of this group merely shows--to me--that she didn't value being in that group as much as the GOP is trying to make it seem she was.

Susan Day O'Conner and one or two others got flack for the same thing.

Sotomayor is a smart lady, and she's probably making a wise decision.

this is crap.

As if any women's club could compete with THE SENATE or, the AMA or the PENTAGON or just about any important club in this country, all of which are male dominated.

The Huffpo article says that SCJ Anthony Kennedy was forced to resign from an all-male club, and that a couple of others have been harassed.

I'm sure she knows what she's doing, picking battles and all that.

And for those who know I'm Latina, lol, I have the honor of being the first Latina/o who called into CSPAN AGAINST Gonzalez on the day of his Senate confirmation hearing. The host almost choked when I said I was a Latina against him. :hi:

:sarcasm:

to the Bohemian Grove this year?

:grr: :mad:

Of course, it goes without saying that likely dozens of corrupt Bushie federal judges belong to similar organizations. Make book on it.

They can do damned near ANYTHINg and just bull their way through, lying if necessary but usually saying in so many words, "Fuck you, we're going to do it anyway."

And of course we Democrats, our "leadership" anyway, doesn't even say boo.

But let a Bushie shake a fist and we SCURRY to comply.

I AM SICK TO DEATH OF IT!!!!

Is kills me that our side always -ALWAYS- seems to back down for these guys.

It's as if it hasn't sunk in yet that they we WON! Stop graveling to these cretins.

of racisism, eliteism etc. They backed down when faced with the charges

If they only represent 20% of the voters we really ought to tell them to
fuck off when they think they are big enough to throw their weight around.
Every time we do this it just validates them a little more. Piss on them.
They're not calling the shots any more.

once she's confirmed. ;)

:)

...is it appropriate for a Supreme Court justice to belong to a single-gender club?

read tomorrow, for the heck of it.

http://www.vanityfair.com/style/features/2009/05/bohemian-grove-guide200905

A Guide to the Bohemian Grove

onspiracy theorists believe the Bohemian Grove’s idyllic grounds, in northern California, are host to right-wing, old-boy machinations about the New World Order. Honorary member Richard Nixon, meanwhile, called it “the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine.” For V.F. contributing editor Alex Shoumatoff, who was arrested for trespassing at last year’s encampment while investigating the club’s forestry practices, the most suspicious activity that takes place in the grove is the alleged logging of old-growth redwood trees. But common to all reports from the two-week-long gathering of the country’s rich and powerful old guard—members have included every Republican president since Coolidge—is an account of profuse outdoor urination. With gin fizzes being poured at seven a.m., so many enlarged prostates, and such majestic natural urinals, who’s surprised? We present to you a guide to the Bohemian Grove, including a map of the premises, highlights of the events, and a list of prominent members and regular guests, from the club’s founding, in 1872, to today.

The last Bohemian Grove encampment took place in July 2008. Here’s an abridged schedule of events from the club’s program. Who knew the Grovers were so soulful?!

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Republican Leaders from all over the country all republican presidents and maybe Bill Clinton. Business Men and Corporate Leaders from all over the country. All worshipping a giant owl in the middle of the woods and simulating (possibly) a human scarifice.

It makes no sense that the GOP would complain since they are all probably members of Bohemian Grove. But her walking away from that shit is only a good thing. SECRET SOCIETIES HOLDING INFLUENCE OVER MEMBERS OF GOVERNMENT is not a good thing.