Sotomayor Hits Pro-Business Note as Senate Testimony Nears End

[Joanne98]

Source: Bloomberg

July 16 (Bloomberg) -- Judge Sonia Sotomayor struck a pro- business chord in U.S. Senate testimony yesterday on her Supreme Court nomination.

“In business, the predictability of law may be the most necessary,” Sotomayor said, pointing to her eight years representing companies in private practice.

Business lawyers said the comments signaled an appreciation of the practical needs of companies, bolstering her 17-year record as a trial and appellate judge. Sotomayor has often been receptive to business arguments, as when she voted in 2006 to block class-action status for a suit that accused banks of rigging initial public offerings.

Her testimony was “music to my ears,” said Roy Englert, a Washington appellate lawyer who has represented the U.S. Chamber of Commerce before the Supreme Court. “Businesses are very adaptable to law changes, but what they have a hard time with is uncertainty and unpredictability in the law.”


Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aJ5Kg1jiULuQ

---

This is the real news. The traitor democrats have teamed up with the republicans to make sure THIS isn't talked about during the hearings. She's a corporate and that's all anybody cares about. But we're not suppose to notice that so ALL they've talked about is RACE!

[RC]

1. That DINO's, not Democrats.

[customerserviceguy]

2. I wouldn't make too much of this

She knows that she won't get the votes of the fundie Rethugs, so she's trying to peel off votes from the country-clubber Repukes.

It's just the game that has to be played at confirmation hearings, that's all.

[wellst0nev0ter]

3. My Eyes Were Tired

I thought I read "confusion hearings." That would have been classic :D

[Javaman]

7. Exactly. I saw it as her throwing them a bone, so they would pipe down. nt

[No Elephants]

9. Maybe you should

research it then.

She has been pro-business throughout her career in private practice and all her years on the bench. She is also very pro-cop, from her years as a prosecutor.

[No Elephants]

8. She has a very pro-business record, both as a judge and as a lawyer. She is also" law and order."

[fascisthunter]

4. so... interpretation of the Constitution will depend on how it effects business Interests

more so than American's rights? I really hope not... if it is true, we have a much larger problem now.

[Romulox]

6. Believe it or not, there is entire movement ("Law & Economics")

That seeks to make law and legal rulings based on radical rightwing economics.

Google Judge Posner some time; a true vampire.

[ananda]

5. That's not good.

SCOTUS has already veered right and corporate,
putting the interests of people last.