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“President Obama has chosen federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor as his nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, two sources told CNN on Tuesday.” Jeffrey Rosen is rolling in his grave.
President Obama is expected make the official announcement in an hour or so, so maybe we will liveblog that — unless the California Supreme Court makes a very early ruling on the whole gay marriage deal, in which case we will just have to do a double-header liveblog full of gays and Puerto Ricans. This is precisely the sort of nightmare apocalypse scenario that half the Supreme Court masturbates to every night.
Obama to name Sotomayor as Supreme Court pick [CNN]
Is diabetes contagious? I hope she coughs on Scalia’s gavel.
DIABETICS REPRESENT, B1ATCHES!11!!1!!
We Noo Yawkers are pleased to have one of our own on the bench.
Court decisions will now automatically have meringue playing in the background, Telemundo will now have exclusive telecast rights, and the SCOTUS softball team will be unbeatable.
Salsa ‘n chips for everyone!
How long before the GOP begins claiming 1) she’s an illegal alien and/or 2) she’ll infect the court with swine flu?
I caught diabetes from too much sex…………… Alone
Double headed? Puerto Ricans? Are we nominating a SOCTUS justice or making gay dildo porn?
Yes.
With brown being the new black, Roberts will make her sit in the back of the court.
If the Democrats on the Judicial Committee have and sense, they’ll be sure to mention “the historic nature of the first Hispanic on the Supreme Court” over and over. That way the Republicans will alienate Hispanics even more when call her a radical, terrorist-loving blah-blah-blah.
I got a kick out of how the NPR folks were saying “Latina” and “Nuyorican” all drive in.
said Wendy Long, counsel to the conservative Judicial Confirmation Network… She has an extremely high rate of her decisions being reversed, indicating that she is far more of a liberal activist than even the current liberal activist Supreme Court.”
Holy fuck! You mean she’s more liberal than the current Supreme Court that’s dominated by extreme liberal thinkers like John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas?
What will those Communists in the Obama Administration think of next!?!?!?!
Female, Hispanic and loves affirmative action. Watch the GOP self-destruct.
If the right wing pundits were smart… Oh never mind.
HOLY CRAP LOOK AT THAT MANHAND
Can we have a dueling speech by Cheney suggesting what Real American ™ should have been nominated?
Seriously if Cheney cared so much, why didn’t he run for prez and get crushed by the brutal hands of Barry.
No snark here: Si se puede!
Now, if the CA Supreme Court could get its act together, then we’d be able to watch conservative skulls explode THE WHOLE DAY LONG…. Yippee!
With a Latino on the Supreme Court, will Lou Dobbs sputter hismself into spontaneous combustion?
Hart88: Watch the GOP’s heads asplode! Maybe this is the bone Hopey’s throwing to his “far left” supporters? And be ready for that morbidly obese underage Dominican tranny-diddler to claim Hopey only chose her because she’s black. Er, uh, brown, whatever.
I was hoping for Harriett Myers. She was robbed!
I just looked up Sotomayor in google translator.
Soto = Copse or Thicket
Mayor = Major or Chief
Perfect!
Shouldn’t she be the Mayor of something? Something small, I mean “sotto?”
When, oh when are we going to get some hardline white male conservative Catholic men on the court? We only have like 4 or something!
JMP: Latina. Unless you know something I don’t.
That is one big raccoon. That’s all I want to say.
norbizness: Who knows, maybe she’s a secret Opus Dei?
To ease the transition for Justice Roberts, I’d suggest Hopey use a strategy developed by Dylan Thomas and used during their Harvard days: “Hey, what’s the matter, man? We’re going to come around at 12 with some Puerto Rican girls that’s just dying to meet you. We’re going to bring a case of wine. Hey, let’s go mess and fool around, you know, like we used to.”
If Wilford Brimley endorced her, that’s a bad sign.
I love that the strongest conservative argument is that she believes something which is, in fact, true re: perspective, judgment and interpretation. Next Slate will argue that we need white men on the court because they are the only ones who can genuinely think that their experience and socio-historical perspective doesn’t affect their judgment. Everyone else is infected with communist empathy (also known as Type-Mao Diabetes).
Is Scalia rolling over in his grave yet?
“Jeffrey Rosen is rolling in his grave.:
Rosen died? Wow, the average IQ at TNR just bumped up about 40 points.
Those ‘Ricans know what to do with a goat!
Si!
I see from her bio that she was elected to the American Philosophical Society. If a gavel falls in the desert, does it make a sound?
Teh Wingnutti are going to crap cages any minute now…speaking of which, I don’t have the stones to check out Freeperville this early, anyone else lurked yet?
Conservatives point to, among other things, her authoring of a 2008 opinion supporting the city of New Haven, Connecticut’s decision to throw out the results of a firefighter promotion exam because almost no minorities qualified for promotions.
Oh hey — remember that obnoxious Richard Cohen column from a while back complaining about this? He was actually bitching about Judge Sotomayor, although I don’t think he mentioned her by name. I wouldn’t be surprised if her ruling on this basically asserted New Haven’s legality in throwing out the results, and now it’s being portrayed as some sort of activist-cockeyed-liberal affirmative action horror.
And now that empathy is the eighth deadly sin, we’re going to hear about that again, too. Oh joy. President Obama should’ve said he was looking for a judge who liked puppies and flowers too, just to hear those excoriated by the right.
If he really wanted to pick a qualified Latina, he should’ve picked Penelope Cruz.
Rowrrr.
I miss Thurgood.
I guess Stormy Daniels will have to just set her mind now to serving as the Senator from Louisiana.
freakishlystrong: Half of them want to see a birth certificate, the other half want to see a death certificate.
I can’t wait for Republican luminaries to decry the nomination of an Hispanic woman to the Supreme Court as “PC.” As a lifelong white male, I can’t wait for someone to finally stand up for my marginalized group. In fact, here’s a non-comprehensive list of lurking PC things to watch out for:
What is PC these days
Non-whites
Women
Jews
Foreign languages
The BBC
Tacos
Italian food (with garlic in it)
Small breweries
Passports
Spice (excluding pepper)
Good gas mileage
Leaving your guns at home when you go out
Not owning guns (of course)
Subtitles
Being quiet in national and city parks
Organic food
Music without steel guitars
Whole-grain doughnuts
Sleeping in on Sunday mornings
Sushi
Jogging
European cars
hobospacejunkie:
When the Opus Dei recruiters were working the college campuses, they probably didn’t even notice an Hispanic woman. Too bad, so sad.
sonia is breaking the latino jesus-and-mary stained-glass ceiling
Extended choruses of ‘I Want To Be in Am-Er-I-Ca’, Chicas!
Mr Blifil: I keep saying the Wonkette is not paying nearly enough attention to this seminal race.
The Schadenfried PAC: She’s even more delicious than oatmeal, loaded with heaping spoonfuls of white processed sugar.
x111e7thst: Well they haven’t begun campaiging in earnest, so for now consider it “pre-semenal.”
Here comes your honorary degree, J-Lo! Get ready for one sassy confirmation process to include questions like “Puerto Rico, that’s pretty damn close to Cuba, isn’t it Ms. Sotomayor?”
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Larry McAwful: That sounds like your average medium-good weekend at my house (less the squeal of small children and the borshch.) If only I could get the kids to actually sleep in on ANY morning -
Ah yes, here’s the old Wonkette thing with a link to Cohen’s opinion piece where he discusses the New Haven case and bravely forgets to mention that Sotomayor was on the appeals court that upheld the ruling.
http://wonkette.com/408340/richard-cohen-simply-does-not-care-for-affirmative-action
What the fuck kind of cat is that she’s holding?
snideinplainsight: That’s pretty much a good weekend at my house, too. Except that I don’t sleep in at all anymore. Like my father, I’ve taken to waking up before 5:00 AM. And we don’t own a European car, but we dream of Volvos.
“Borshch”? You must have Russian roots, right?
Whoa!1! Hey I like a big ol’ handsome coon sitting on my lap as much as the next gal, but that thing’s got to be a goddamned diabetic for chrissakes. And let me tell you, you just can’t trust those diabetics, nope, they’ll go all hypoglycemic on your ass at the slightest provocation. It’s enough to make your hair curl. So anyway, what were we talking about?
Lookout! Here comes the hate machine!
Chuck Todd was already planting the seeds with the viewing audience to expect republican attacks. these dipshits really just don’t when. it amazes me. they can’t marginalize themselves fast enough.
she was a made a federal judge by Poppy fer chrissakes. oh, yeah, he’s one of the republicans they all now think was a huge pussy. (Babs, on the other hand, would tear, and has torn men’s arms from their sockets.) and these douches also pretend their annointed son didn’t just fuck us all silly for the next 40 years.
wow. yeah. great idea. please, pretty please, make all the Latin Americans in Texas vote democrat forever. and do it soon.
The photo I saw this morning showed her eyebrows shaved but penciled in, but otherwise her make-up was tastefully done. Just like John Roberts.
Larry McAwful: My wife, and mother-in-law. But it’s in my background as well - mother’s side is Ukranian.
LEGALIZE WILDING!!!
snideinplainsight: That makes sense. It’s the “shch” thing that gave it away. I’ve never seen that soup spelled like that; I only know the Yiddish spelling “borsht.” But there was no question what you meant.
I’m half Polish, myself. But my grandmother learned to cook from Hungarians and picked up tips and tastes from her Italian neighbors. We had penczki, goulash, lasagne—no borsht, though. Not ’till I moved to New York. (If you ever want good Ukrainian food, try Veselka on Eighth Street, just so you know.)
Custerwolf: Fruit Loops
Mr Blifil: Oh yeah. Well, you can’t trust those guys either. Most turn out to be cereal killers.
loquaciousmusic: If he really wanted to pick a qualified Latina, he should’ve picked Penelope Cruz.
Respectfully disagree. I’m of the opinion that Salma Hayek’s uh … legal, um, qualifications are much more impressive.
Lascauxcaveman: Really - Selma over Penelope? I’d pick the peenalope myself.
Custerwolf: True. I’m also reminded that fewer things are more sad than an empty box.
Mr Blifil: Indeed, many’s the night I’ve wept at the mere thought.
A Better American Than YOU: She speaks good English and invites you up into her room… Jim Morrison also had more on the same topic, of course.
Custerwolf: Naw. Salma has much bigger legal qualifications. Maybe you have to be a guy to notice these things.
Lascauxcaveman: We notice them. We just don’t give them as much heft.
May I just say on behalf of my Mexican grandmother, VIVA LA RAZA!