Obama a Pragmatist, Risk Taker in Choosing Sotomayor

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When they act as tax-paid public servants, judges are supposed to leave outside working hours the way they feel about religion. And about national policy of management of the people's money. They can't vote to have the states or federal government enforce church laws that ban abortion. Those laws exist to COMPEL men and women to produce ongoing generations of tithe-payers. The symbol of Justice, holding scales, must not have anything in either pan to give it false weight. The word "compassion" was used to refer to being able to acknowledge that parenting is hard, and even harder when one parent isn't there to pull their full weight. What bothers me is that there are five judges who were programmed to respect the Code of Canon Law. It lists acts that are called crimes by the Rpman Catholic Church. They all refer to creating, keeping and increasing numbers of tithers. Don't abort because that conception might grow to be a tithe-payer. Don't commit suicide because corpses do not tithe. Don't even try it, for the same reason. This sounds cynical but its from me, a person whose tax bills are higher because churches have tax exemptions.

auradawnveirs of CA 12:52AM July 06, 2009

Mr. Walsh,
It is funny how every liberal orginization is described as centrist, even with the word progressive in the title.
"president of the centrist Progressive Policy Institute"
This is like saying the president of the centrist Young Republicans orginization. They have self identified that they are liberal, but you cannot. When did journalism die?

David of MO 1:01AM June 04, 2009

that Sonia Sotomayor is really "liberal" enough. The big issue is not whether she favors so-called affirmative action. The big issue is whether she favors the concept that people must control corporations and not the other way around.
A corporation as a "person" in the law always has more resources and more lobbying ability than you do. We need judges who will not favor such paper entities just because some other judge did so at some time in the past as a "precedent". Let's hope Judge Sotomayor believes that way.

Muser of NM 11:13AM June 03, 2009

This was no surprise to me. The media picked Sotomayor the day they heard there was to be a vacancy on the court. They alsmost became frustrated with the President's delays in naming her, since they had told him what to do.
Now, many of them refer to her as if she were already on the supreme court. It doesn't matter that she hasn't went thru the confirmation hearings, since they have already succeeded in eliminating any resistance to their power that might have been brought by the castrated Republican Party.
Mr. President, please be careful, if you cross them, they will turn on you and remove you from office just like they gutted the Republican party. (By the way, it was a smart move picking Joe for your back-up, that is some insurance against them turning on you.) But remember, picking an unimpressive vp didn't stop them from getting rid of Nixon.

DLCarter of OK 11:09AM June 03, 2009

The third rate affirmative action President nominates a third rate affirmative action judge,Both are obsessed with race. How revealing !!!!

Mark of OR 10:25AM June 03, 2009

AM VERY HAPY THAT MR PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS ELECT SONIA FOR HIGHER COURT.
KNOW THIS COUNTRY GOOIG RIGHT DIRECTION.
AM FROM PUERTO RICO AM PROUD OF UNITED STATE.
THANK MR PRESIDENT OBAMA.

JOSE MERCADO of IL 6:05AM June 03, 2009