HOPE in the tea leaves for Justice SOTOMAYOR

Yip to Senator FEINGOLD's saying that the confirmation hearings for SCotUS have become useless theater. Devoid of content that will tell us who they are and what they will do as justices. Justice SOUTER was great, but there is always that mirror possibility that a supposed one-of-ours will turn out to be one-of-theirs.

So here's a tidbit that, hope against hope, portends what Justice SOTOMAYOR will be?

Well, there have been other little signs---like nearly ALL Rethugs voting against her, NRA in their paranoid panic.

We need THREE more to have a little breather.

I couldn't find the sculpture cited.

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http://www.nypost.com/seven/08032009/gossip/pagesix/sightings_182718.htm
SIGHTINGS

JUDGE Sonia Sotomayor admiring Elliott Arkin'ssculpture of Obama, titled "Hope," in the office of White House counsel Jeffrey Bleich.

http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/finch/finch10-3-08.asp
The Barackites chose a complex Arkin rendition of Obama pushing a boulder labelled "Hope" up a mountain, while Lincoln, Dr. King and Jack Kennedy look on approvingly from the sky, a fitting metaphor for the problems Obama will face as president.

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revealing anything because they know if they do that some yahoo senator could use it to derail there confirmation.

that the hearings leave about what the confirmed person will turn out to be.

The Republicans were shameful and The Democrats rolled over and said "Oh, please don't hurt us!" and when his wife did her little boo-hoo-hooing show that was THE WORST.

McCain says he "still on the fence" about Sotomayor.
Hey dirt-bag, who gives a shit what you think, except the Sunday morning "news" shows every other week.

on the rights of the accused and deferential to government/corporate power. Don't be shocked.

Well, that and Choice and all manner of things!1


What this system comes down to is winning big majority margins and putting in nominees WITHOUT REGARD to "bipartisanship."

in criminal appeals and when she was on an appellate panel with Republican appointees she voted with them 97% of the time. Granted there are some constraints on circuit courts that obviously the Supreme Court does not have. Still, I think you can see a pattern.