Breaking: Water is Wet and Racist Jeff Sessions will Vote Against Sotomayor

[SemiCharmedQuark]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee says he'll vote against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.

Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions says he doesn't think Sotomayor has the convictions to resist the pull of judicial activism once she becomes a justice.

His decision comes the day before the Judiciary panel is to vote on President Barack Obama's first high court nominee. Sotomayor is virtually certain to be confirmed by a vote of the full Senate by the end of next week, becoming the first Hispanic justice.

Most conservative Republicans are lining up against Sotomayor, but a handful of GOP senators are siding with majority Democrats to back her.

Sessions announced his decision in an opinion piece in USA Today.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/27/sessions-to-vote-against_n_245286.html

[ccharles000]

1. I'm shocked I tells ya shocked!

[SemiCharmedQuark]

2. I like that he announces it in an oped as though *anyone* thought for one second he would vote for

her.


BTW, I like your new sig pic.

[ccharles000]

3. thanks

:blush:

[CatWoman]

5. is that you, Charles?

if so, you are so very cute :)

[ccharles000]

6. yes it is me and thank you

[NJmaverick]

4. He's simply playing to his racist base

[AspenRose]

7. In other news: Sun Rises in East.

Like we didn't see this coming a mile away....

[SuperTrouper]

8. Sessions is on crack cocaine; he said it so himself... I am shocked!

:wow:

[Puzzler]

9. Now we "need" the 24hr CNN "concern" media blitz about this Sessions vote...

... come on CNN, show us that it's the end of the Obama administration.

(sarcasm)

[LynneSin]

10. Captain Obvious agrees!

[mvd]

11. No surprise - hypocritical, though

And so is Hatch, he of vote for Alito because he's qualified fame. He may be more intelligent than many other Senate Repukes, but he's also very right wing.

[nolabels]

16. Hatch is a creature of his electorate

His is a strange brew of a religious cult that keeps one foot in modern life and the other one in things that they make up as they go along

[noiretextatique]

12. is he the one who said he liked her?

he'd probably like her to be his housekeeper :puke:

[Bolo Boffin]

13. I'm from Alabama and I don't know...

Why is it that Alabamians will cut off their heads to spite their faces? :shrug:

[starroute]

14. So she's not opinionated enough to resist being opinionated?

"He doesn't think Sotomayor has the convictions to resist the pull of judicial activism."

You know how all those weak-willed, wishy-washy lawyers just don't have the backbone to resist becoming judicial activists once they get on the bench and see that all the kewl kids are doing it.

[and-justice-for-all]

15. I was not expecting this...

:eyes: