Comments on: JC = Thumbs Up 4 Sotomayor https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/07/28/jc-thumbs-up-4-sotomayor/ Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:52:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: D. C. Sessions https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/07/28/jc-thumbs-up-4-sotomayor/#comment-540646 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:52:33 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/07/28/jc-thumbs-up-4-sotomayor/#comment-540646 Hey, I would have voted against her, but at least it would have been for something other than making life hard for the President.

I would have voted against her for her (horrible) record on civil liberties — she’s already well on her way to being the most authoritarian Justice on the Court, which given recent appointments is going to be a hard-fought race.

On the other hand, she looks to be a brilliant detail jurist — the perfect person for a Federal District Court. Pity she couldn’t have stayed there and a greater pity that the President didn’t exercise a bit less caution in appointing someone with a real vision to the USSC.

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