Most panel Republicans to oppose Sotomayor

[undeterred]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON — On the eve of their panel's vote, top Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee announced Monday that they'll oppose Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, joining a growing list of conservatives ready to vote against the judge who's virtually certain to become the first Hispanic justice.

Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the committee's top Republican, and Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, its No. 2, both said Sotomayor left them doubting her pledge of "fidelity to the law," and wondering whether she'd let her personal biases and prejudices interfere with her rulings. Their announcement solidifies near-unanimous GOP opposition on the Judiciary panel to President Barack Obama's first high court nominee. Just one Republican on the committee, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, has said he will vote yes.

Their opposition comes as GOP senators prepare for a politically perplexing vote on Sotomayor next week by the full Senate, which is all but certain to confirm her. Many are eager to please their core conservative supporters by opposing her but fearful of a backlash by Hispanic voters, a fast-growing part of the electorate, if they do so.

A handful of Republicans have announced they're siding with majority Democrats in support of Sotomayor, the 55-year-old appeals court judge Obama chose to replace retiring Justice David Souter. The daughter of Puerto Rican parents, who was raised in a Bronx housing project and educated in the Ivy League before serving 17 years on the federal bench, is considered unlikely to alter the high court's ideological split.


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We need to keep the courts composed entirely of white males in order to avoid "bias" and "judicial activism". :sarcasm:

[Mz Pip]

1. Screw 'em

Don't need them.

They are irrelevant.

[MUAD_DIB]

2. Yep. Steamroll them. Their agenda is for Obama to fail so flatten them.

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[grytpype]

3. They know they have to start appealing to Hispanics to survive, but they can't stop being racist .

The GOP is continuing to destroy itself, and we should be very, very glad of that.

[undeterred]

4. This doesn't help them with women either

or with anyone sensible enough to see that she'll make a very good justice.

[southern_belle]

10. It seems to be too deeply ingrained in their hearts.

Amazing!

[Vidar]

5. They're just grandstanding for their fellow bigots. They don't have the votes to make a difference.

[Vidar]

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[Ztarbod]

7. Oh no! They're going to vote like democrats

This is so reminiscent of the votes on Bush's nominees.
It is the old she is qualified but I don't care, it makes me feel good about myself to vote against her.

[Jazzgirl]

11. Except Bush's nominees weren't qualified.

Can you say Harriet Miers?

[theothersnippywshrub]

12. No republican is voting against her because "it makes me feel good about myself."

Some of them are voting against her so that they do not alienate the bigoted, racist, xenophobic, republican base. The rest are voting against her because they are part of that base.

[thelordofhell]

8. What a coincidence, because most Republicans are.......

Sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical, bigots.

[The Stranger]

9. They have no fear and are clearly, openly, brazenly in the wrong.

Why oh-fucking-why do the Democrats have so much fear simply to do what right?

[CBHagman]

14. Someone has to post the Stephen Colbert video...

Oh, you've got to see this if you haven't already:

http://www.indecisionforever.com/2009/07/17/colbert-in-america-white-is-neutral/

:rofl:

Do watch for the Scalia and Alito bits...

[MadMaddie]

15. Well that is the final nail in the coffin for Repugs to gain the

Latino and woman vote. Man they don't need any help fucking themselves over. They still have not learned.....

[grantcart]

16. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot

It will have a big impact on Hispanics.