What do you really expect? [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfC99LrrM2Q]YouTube - Judge Sonia Sotomayor: Court is Where Policy is Made[/ame]
Change? Perhaps its about time we 'create some policy' of our own, or let Soto do it for us. If she is as intelligent and sensible as Dem's are portraying her to be- we have nothing to fear. If she is a loose liberal canon like Repub's are claiming- we still have nothing to fear. ("We" being the cannabis community)
From what I've read she isn't very bright and likes to hear herself talk. She comes from a poor minority background so hopefully she would prove to be an ally against the war on drugs, but probably not considering Obama picked her. She was picked because she is hispanic and a woman. Ethnic & gender diversity should play no role in interpreting the Constitution.
What I'm saying is, let her talk. Even if she turns out to be a fool- she may be the fool we've been waiting for. I have no objections to the fabrication of pro-marijuana policy.
She's a bitch and I'm disappointed in Obama, anyone who says "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion [as a judge] than a white male who hasn't lived that life." -- Judge Sonia Sotomayor I didn't know latinas were born with better judgment than gringos. She also believes minority firefighters will do a better job fighting fires than white men of higher skill.
That all may be true- but you really shouldn't believe everything you hear on FOX. Sound like it came straight out of Bill "O'Rightly's" mouth.
. . . or it may be accurate, but because its conservative it probably isn't. Pretty stupid that this woman said that judges are supposed to make policy. That should disqualify her right off the bat.
Fuck Obama, fuck sotomyer, fuck the supreme court as a mother fucking puppet group. Yes this is hate speech, and I hate all these bitches. And you think she is going to help change marijuana policy, are you joking?
Lets hope she brings something new to the table, but if Obama is going to be an arrogant little bitch and not even address a simple question, I have my doubts, but the economy could tank again, and you know he won't let a crisis go to waste.
Trust me, I don't believe anything I hear on Fox. Its is true and i am very much in line with her beliefs, but there were better choices and obama knows it. I don't blame him for picking her because he basically just took the hispanic vote in 2012.
You right wingers are getting quite upset, she must be doing something right. "The saw is that if you're going into academia, you're going to teach, or as Judge Lucero just said, public interest law, all of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people with court of appeals experience, because it is -- court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know -- and I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. OK, I know. I'm not promoting it, and I'm not advocating it, I'm -- you know. OK. Having said that, the court of appeals is where, before the Supreme Court makes the final decision, the law is percolating -- its interpretation, its application. And Judge Lucero is right. I often explain to people, when you're on the district court, you're looking to do justice in the individual case. So you are looking much more to the facts of the case than you are to the application of the law because the application of the law is non-precedential, so the facts control. On the court of appeals, you are looking to how the law is developing, so that it will then be applied to a broad class of cases. And so you're always thinking about the ramifications of this ruling on the next step in the development of the law. You can make a choice and say, "I don't care about the next step," and sometimes we do. Or sometimes we say, "We'll worry about that when we get to it" -- look at what the Supreme Court just did. But the point is that that's the differences -- the practical differences in the two experiences are the district court is controlled chaos and not so controlled most of the time." The media has just repeated this sound bite over and over and over and over, but never show the sentence after. It will be coming out though.
