I don't believe in litmus tests and very very very few dem nominees answer questions on that, rep. picks do because the msm fed by the political ambulance chasers like Schumer et al kills them if they don't...as I said, maybe you want to read a few books on past judicial nominations and conformations hearings and votes.

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"The captain has turned off the `No Dubbing' sign. You are free to speak any language you choose."

har de har har...

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"The captain has turned off the `No Dubbing' sign. You are free to speak any language you choose."

I was exagerating of course.

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"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his father has acquired too much, in order to spare to others who (or whose fathers) have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, "to guarantee to everyone a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."

-Thomas Jefferson

Not sure what that has to do with conservative thinking. If you work your ass off your entire life and have nothing to show, you are dumb. Its not just about working hard. Its not about manual labor, which I think is what you are getting at. That is the flaw in liberal thinking, that if you dont do manual labor, you arent working.

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"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his father has acquired too much, in order to spare to others who (or whose fathers) have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, "to guarantee to everyone a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."

-Thomas Jefferson

It's a solid pick politically.

I agree with Imperator that she's technically not the first Hispanic justice....she is the first Hispanic female justice, though....so new ground is still being broken.

What's more important than her ethnic background is the political ramifications of the Hispanic population of the country feeling represented to some degree in the justice system. I'm not sure that they got the same feeling about Alberto Gonzalez...

Again, politically, this is a solid pick. There's almost no way the Republicans can stifle her confirmation without incurring damage. That is...unless there is some huge skeleton in her closet that is unknown as of yet.

The net effect of this on future supreme court decisions is probably about nil. Sotomayor replacing Souter is pretty much an even swap.

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I agree with that but that is because the msm has lost focus of degree of left or right unless it’s a con. nominee, she is I fear further left than souter, it certainly appears that way, but the band is already playing the moderate song, because they want her in so lets not expect any real msm scrutiny, she is a ‘moderate’ and so shall she remain short of pissing on Lincolns leg at the monument.

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"The captain has turned off the `No Dubbing' sign. You are free to speak any language you choose."

any supreme court nomination is just like the constitution. it can be debated ad nauseum, and there are no defined standards, there are no concrete conclusions.

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you realize that msm is a myth, don't you?

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What exactly has she done that could characterize her as a radical?

Chances are, if she's got a long a record as she has and no one can establish a pattern of a radical agenda, it's hard to argue that she's not a moderate.

It's highly unlikely that a person of her experience is going to completely change their stripes.....

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Good catch on knowing your history. But I don't really think he'd be deemed 'countable' by popular opinion. His roots are neither Latin American nor of the way people view what is Hispanic today (gentile stock). He's of Sephardic Jewish origin from Portugal via their flights through other European nations that accepted them when being purged from the Iberian Peninsula.

Benjamin N. Cardozo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

History of the Jews in Portugal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This reminds me of the allegations that Obama is not really the first black POTUS and that Warren G. Harding was given it's now pretty much been shown that he had some distant West Indian black ancestors. Technically, the allegations are probably true and Obama isn't the first POTUS having black ancestry in his family tree. But given Harding was a 'passer' of mostly white blood and presented himself as white and/or never admitted he had black ancestry in his family tree, he won't ever get credit for being the first black POTUS.

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O'Sullivan,

I think we have to ditch the technicalities in this case. Some guy named Cardozo, back in the early part of the 20th century is most certainly going to be perceived as Hispanic....even if his roots don't directly trace that way (although one would have to wonder how he got the name Cardozo if he had no hispanic bloodline. If they took on the surname artificially to avoid persecution, I didn't see that mentioned in the bio).

Appointing a guy named Cardozo to the Supreme Court in the 1920's is certainly more groundbreaking than naming a woman named Sotamayor in 2009.

I really doubt seizing the prize for firsts is what the Obama administration is going for. They should be happy to claim the first "hispanic female" justice and leave it at that. Politically, the perception is a win for them either way.

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OMG, are you still talking about the Hispanic thing?

I'll clear this up for you guys. (These are for US use)

Black = African (even if you're from the Dominican Republic and just look African)
Hispanic = Brown skin but cannot pass as black or white
white = Duh
Asian = slanted eyes/dark hair/usually smart

Now that we're on the same page, lets discussing something that matters.

i never knew that Indians were hispanic.

nice try.

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No, those are Muslims, duh.


edit: However, an Indian in a construction worker outfit or a maids outfit can easily be mistaken for Hispanic.

I've never heard of Hispanics calling him as one of their own. Even technically speaking, he's not Hispanic. To be Hispanic you have to have roots from Latin America and his roots do not. Simply being Spanish or Portuguese does not apply because those nations are in Europe. Hispanics do not consider Spanish and Portuguese people to be Hispanic and vice versa. It's akin to saying a British person is equivalent to Canadians, etc.

Sephardic Jews spread all over the place when being expelled and persecuted in the Iberian Peninsula--Europe, North Africa, Ottoman Empire, and even the American colonies, as in Cardozo's case. Cardozo's ancestry started in the US back before the American colonies became independent, which has nothing in common with today's Hispanic population, and he identified himself as Jewish as did society and still does today. Just as one example, the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law is the law school of Yeshiva University in NYC, a Jewish university.

History of the Jews in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Other examples of Sephardic Jews in American history include people like Judah P. Benjamin, the Confederate Secretary of State and War and Attorney General during the American Civil War, who with his family sought out the Sephardic Jewish community in South Carolina mentioned above as a destination when arriving in the US.

Judah P. Benjamin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Popular opinion has always identified them as Jews because they are Jews and they self-identify themselves as such.

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