Sotomayer confirmation hearings

[Warpt762x39]

I didn't see this posted anywhere else.

I was watching bits and pieces of the Sotomayer confirmation hearings today and noticed something kinda odd.

When a Democrat was speaking to her, she smiled and nodded and paid attention.

When a Republican was speaking to her, her eyes got kinda glassy and she looked like she was gonna puke.

Another thing I noticed was the number of attacks on Justice Roberts. What the hell was the point of that?

[Dredly]

did you also miss every dem saying how great and fastic she was and how her life experience would only help her get better

and all the reps saying how she is a racist (which she is) and her HORRIBLE record when her decisions were actually challenged should be a warning to everyone (80% overturn rate)

[Warpt762x39]

did you also miss every dem saying how great and fastic she was and how her life experience would only help her get better

and all the reps saying how she is a racist (which she is) and her HORRIBLE record when her decisions were actually challenged should be a warning to everyone (80% overturn rate)

I noticed that as well. I also noticed when Schumer and the blonde chick (can't remember her name) were "introducing" Sotomayer that the blonde kept saying what an honor it is to finally have a woman nominated.

Has she forgotten the other 2 who have served and one still serving?

[riverpirate]

did you also miss every dem saying how great and fastic she was and how her life experience would only help her get better

and all the reps saying how she is a racist (which she is) and her HORRIBLE record when her decisions were actually challenged should be a warning to everyone (80% overturn rate)

From Factcheck.org

Of the majority opinions that Judge Sonia Sotomayor has authored since becoming an appellate judge in 1998, three of them have been overturned by the Supreme Court.

Our search for appellate opinions by Sotomayor on the LexisNexis database returned 232 cases. That's a reversal rate of 1.3 percent.

But only five of her decisions have been reviewed by the justices. Using five as a denominator, the rate comes out to 60 percent.

We have contacted Rush Limbaugh to ask how he came up with the figure he used recently when he said, "She has been overturned 80 percent by the Supreme Court." We'll update this item if we receive a response. (See our May 29 update at the end for how Limbaugh may have calculated his 80 percent figure, and why we judge it to be mistaken.) In the week before President Barack Obama announced that he would nominate Sotomayor, the conservative Judicial Confirmation Network ran an Internet ad saying she had a "100 percent reversal rate," which is false. (We asked that group for back-up material, which a spokesman agreed to give us but which we never received; since Obama's announcement, the group has taken the ad down.)

In any case, 60 percent of the cases the Supreme Court has reviewed is not a particularly high number. In any given term, the Supreme Court normally reverses a higher percentage of the cases it hears. During its 2006-2007 term, for instance, the Court reversed or vacated (which, for our purposes here, mean the same thing) 68 percent of the cases before it. The rate was 73.6 percent the previous term.

Rush's answer.....
Rush: The Supreme Court has reversed Judge Sotomayor in four instances where it granted certiorari to review an opinion she authored. "In three of these reversals, the Court held that Judge Sotomayor erred in her statutory interpretation," meaning she goofed up on the law. She was overturned four times when she wrote the opinion, the lead opinion, and in three of the four cases the Supreme Court held that she erred in her statutory interpretation. The cases are Knight v. C.I.R., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. Dabit, New York Times, Inc. v. Tasini, and Correctional Servs. Corp. v. Malesko. The cases are 2008, 2006, 2001, and 2001. So there you have it.

Four out of five – as we noted above, Sotomayor has had five appellate decisions reviewed by the Supreme Court – is 80 percent. But Limbaugh is wrong on his cases, and thus wrong in his calculation. First, in Knight v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Sotomayor’s decision wasn’t “overturned” at all. In fact, it was upheld unanimously, though the justices faulted her reasoning.


I could careless about her , but please check facts instead of just beleiving Rush