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Sonia Sotomayor starts taking hits from opposition
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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur May 26, 2009 09:46am |
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| News Date | Tuesday, May 26, 2009 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | President Obama’s first Supreme Court nominee, Second District Appeals Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor, began taking hits from the right as her nomination was announced Tuesday morning, with top conservatives describing her as a hardline liberal who would impose her personal agenda on the Court.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee called Sotomayor’s appointment “the clearest indication yet that Preisdent Obama’s campaign promises to be a centrist and think in a bipartisan way were mere rhetoric.”
“Sotomayor comes from the far left,” Huckabee said in a statement. “The notion that appellate court decisions are to be interpreted by the ‘feelings’ of the judge is a direct affront of the basic premise of our judicial system that is supposed to apply the law without personal emotion. If she is confirmed, then we need to take the blindfold off Lady Justice.
Wendy Long, the counsel for the conservative Judicial Confirmation Network, circulated a memo Tuesday blasting Sotomayor as a “favorite of far left special interest groups” who will “indulge…left-wing policy preferences instead of neutrally applying the law.” |
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