Tag: "Sonia Sotomayor"

SCOTUS Rejects Sotomayor’s “Because I Said So” Decision

| June 29, 2009 | Comments (2)

SCOTUS decided one of the big cases of the year today, Ricci v DiStefano, and there weren’t any major surprises. You can find a couple pretty good analyzes from Ed Morrissey and a roundup at Instapundit. The meat of the SCOTUS decision is that the city of New Haven was wrong to deny the promotions [...]

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The Post Where I Dust off Old Grammar and Spanish Skills

| June 11, 2009 | Comments (17)

Pundette has called the Grammar Cops on Judge Sotomayor, who has made the rather amazing claim that there are no adjectives in Spanish. No, really. That’s what she (Sotomayor, not Pundette) said. When my first mid-term paper came back to me my first semester, I found out that my Latina background had created difficulties in [...]

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Let’s Not Be Afraid to Call a Racist a Racist.

| June 2, 2009 | Comments (0)

I consider Mona Charen one of the smartest, most reasonable writers in the conservative movement, so I was a bit confused when I read the opening of her most recent column on the nomination of Judge Sotomayor. The nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court has already achieved a boon for our political [...]

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So What Happens if You Cross the Empathy of Sotomayor with the Politics of Cheney?

| May 28, 2009 | Comments (0)

My newest post is up at the American Issues Project blog. I have been thinking about Judge Sotomayor’s “the law is what I say it is” attitude and where that could lead. As it happens, that place isn’t pretty for conservatives or progressives. If you want to have a bit of fun today, try out [...]

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So…Sotomayor, Huh?

| May 27, 2009 | Comments (2)

There is a good amount of smart commentary on the President’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, so I won’t add a lot more of my own. There are a few points I want to touch on, though. If you need a one-line summation of Judge Sotomayor’s judicial philosophy, it seems to [...]

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