Senator Cornyn Newsletter: No on Sotomayor
Will Malven
7/24/2009
Credit where credit is due. I was very critical of Senator Cornyn's initial statement regarding President Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to be a Justice on the Supreme Court in which he said he wished to maintain an open mind until the confirmation hearings.
Although very little new was learned as a result of those hearings, Judge Sotomayor has had her day in the sun (such as it was) and the time for declaration has come. I am very pleased to say that Senator Cornyn has stated in his latest newsletter that he cannot support her nomination.
Judge Sotomayor's own statements condemned her for an activist, Liberal adjudicator who has repeatedly expressed opinions that demonstrate an undue sensitivity to racial issues.
I understand the need for a US Senator to be somewhat more reserved than a blogger like me in expressing his opinion even when the issues are relatively clearly defined as they have been in the Sotomayor nomination, so it is very pleasing to see this announcement from the Senator.
It will make little difference in her confirmation how Senator Cornyn votes as Democrats and some "RINO" Republicans have already made their intent to confirm her clear, but it is good see that some Republicans are still willing to stand up to the all too common Liberal accusations of "racism" every time someone votes contrary to their social edicts.
Here is Senator Cornyn's statement:
Funny how it is always the those on the Left, always so ready to toss out the epithet of racist, who turn out to be the real racists.
Anyway, kudos to Senator Cornyn for voting his conscience and resisting the knee-jerk race-vote lobby.
Long Live Our American Republic!!!!
7/24/2009
Credit where credit is due. I was very critical of Senator Cornyn's initial statement regarding President Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to be a Justice on the Supreme Court in which he said he wished to maintain an open mind until the confirmation hearings.
Although very little new was learned as a result of those hearings, Judge Sotomayor has had her day in the sun (such as it was) and the time for declaration has come. I am very pleased to say that Senator Cornyn has stated in his latest newsletter that he cannot support her nomination.
Judge Sotomayor's own statements condemned her for an activist, Liberal adjudicator who has repeatedly expressed opinions that demonstrate an undue sensitivity to racial issues.
I understand the need for a US Senator to be somewhat more reserved than a blogger like me in expressing his opinion even when the issues are relatively clearly defined as they have been in the Sotomayor nomination, so it is very pleasing to see this announcement from the Senator.
It will make little difference in her confirmation how Senator Cornyn votes as Democrats and some "RINO" Republicans have already made their intent to confirm her clear, but it is good see that some Republicans are still willing to stand up to the all too common Liberal accusations of "racism" every time someone votes contrary to their social edicts.
Here is Senator Cornyn's statement:
"Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee held the confirmation hearing for Judge Sotomayor. I had the opportunity to ask Judge Sotomayor to explain some of her troubling past statements and her judicial philosophy to determine what kind of justice Judge Sotomayor would be if confirmed. Unfortunately, I cannot support Judge Sotomayor’s confirmation because she failed to convince me that, as a Supreme Court Justice, she will adhere to a restrained judicial philosophy that delivers fair, impartial, and equal justice for all. Issues of deep importance to Texans are sure to come before the Supreme Court in the coming years, like whether or not to weaken the Second Amendment right of Texans to keep and bear arms. I am also concerned that the Court will fail to protect the Fifth Amendment private property rights of Texans from cities and states that want to condemn their property for non-public uses, and that the Court will expand the right to abortion and other liberal social policies that appear nowhere in the Constitution.Thank you Senator Cornyn. You had me worried a bit given the pressure I'm certain you received from some in the Latino community. Would that those same voices were as loud and insistent when Judge Miguel Estrada was opposed by Democrats simply because he was a Latino.
Nov. 7, 2001/To: Senator DurbinAt least with Sotomayor there are legitimate concerns about her willingness to substitute her own opinion for what the Constitution says. At least there is no memo circulating between Republican Senators stating that they must oppose her because she is a Latina like there was circulating among Democrats during the Estrada Hearings.
"The groups singled out three--Jeffrey Sutton (6th Circuit); Priscilla Owen (5th Circuit); and Caroline [sic] Kuhl (9th Circuit)--as a potential nominee for a contentious hearing early next year, with a [sic] eye toward voting him or her down in Committee. They also identified Miguel Estrada (D.C. Circuit) as especially dangerous, because he has a minimal paper trail, he is Latino, and the White House seems to be grooming him for a Supreme Court appointment. They want to hold Estrada off as long as possible. [All three memos are available here. Emphasis added]
Funny how it is always the those on the Left, always so ready to toss out the epithet of racist, who turn out to be the real racists.
Anyway, kudos to Senator Cornyn for voting his conscience and resisting the knee-jerk race-vote lobby.
Long Live Our American Republic!!!!
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posted by Will Malven at 2:51 PM
8 Comments:
Sen. Cornyn deliberately waited until his vote would make no difference to make his statement to appease the right wing base. Please ask him why he did not make his statement before the hearings to make his statement more credible. He is only fooling that same base not the rest of us.
An "activist" judge is one who you don't support.
"An "activist' judge is one you don't support"
A convenient lie Democrats like to tell because they know the truth will destroy them.
An activist judge is one that chooses to rule on a case the way he wishes the Constitution directs rather than as the Constitution directs. An activist judge is one who chooses to make law from the bench, i.e. Wickard v. Filburn in which the Stone Court expanded-almost without limits-the power of Congress under the commerce clause, Roe v. Wade in which the Burger Court created a right of abortion out of whole cloth, or the Kelo case in which the Renquist Court-in a 5-4 decision-expanded the definition of "public use" to include giving the property of another to a commercial enterprise.
All were done by Liberal activist Justices with no foundation in law.
That is the definition of judicial activism, not the recent Leftist "definition," as cited by that latest idiot Democrat Senator Al Franken, "overturning Congressional legislation." Doesn't the idiot even know that that is the result of Marbury Madison that determined that the Supremes, not Congress or the President is the final arbiter of what is or is not Constitutional?
It is SCOTUS' obligation to overturn any law passed by Congress they determine to be unconstituional. Stupid Liberals, stupid Democrats, stupid Franken.
Exactly. An activist judge is one who you don't support.
Calling Franken and anyone who doesn't agree with you an idiot is idiotic.
With reading comprehension like yours, you must have driven your grade school teachers pulling their hair out.
I just love the willingness of Liberals to arbitrarily redefine any word they choose when they find the word inconvenient.
I guess Humpty Dumpty in Alice doesn't have anything on you...
"I don't know what you mean by 'glory,'" Alice said.
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't – till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!'"
"But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument,'" Alice objected.
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in a rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master – that's all."
Alice was too much puzzled to say anything, so after a minute Humpty Dumpty began again.
"They've a temper, some of them – particularly verbs, they're the proudest – adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs – however, I can manage the whole lot! Impenetrability! That's what I say!"
Humpty Dumpty is a perfect illustration of Liberal argumentation.
You mean that calling the author of Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations an idiot is unfair?
Well I guess expecting anything beyond hypocrisy from a Liberal is unfair.
AS to Franken being an idiot, he stands convicted by his own words as do you by yours.
I'll give you this: you are wordy. But, 10,000 words of horse poop is still horse poop. You know as well as I do that an "activist" judge is based solely on perception. To say otherwise is, well, intellectually dishonest.
BTW, why are you so hateful in your replies? Apparently, I am one of about three people who read this blog. You should be sending me checks.
Awe did it's little feelings get hurt? Too bad, so sad.
You made a snide, typically liberal comment; intellectually dishonest, uninformed, and intended to discredit what I said and I responded with a thorough explantion of that judicial activism is had how it has been defined for the vast majority of our nation's history.
You either did not bother to read what I said, or are incapable of understanding what you have been told and repeated the same snide, uninformed and incorrect statement with the addition that I was idiotic for calling Al Franken and idiot.
Well he certainly is one of most intellectually dishonest, intentionally hateful, and least knowledgeable liberals I have ever heard and deserving of the moniker I gave him.
AS for wordy, explaining things to the intellectually challenged requires being thorough, but since the last comment I wrote only contained 6 short original sentences, I would hardly call that wordy.
FYI...all that stuff in the middle about Humpty Dumpty and Alice...that was a quotation from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.
It is considered a classic in English literature; maybe you should read it. It is one of the best satires ever written.
It is not I who disagrees with Wickard, Roe, and Kelo, it is the Constitution and the writings of our Founding Fathers.
Try reading the Federalist Papers. Our Founding Fathers spent a lot of time trying to get the Constitution right and by most accounts they did. Unfortunately, there are some among us...known as Liberals...who disagree. They seem to believe that the Soviet Union was a much better place to live and that Castro's Cuba is the embodiment of freedom.
I suggest they go there.
I am contemptuous of those who pose as "innocent" commenters while attempting to belittle the blogger and I am contemptuous of those who are intentionally ignorant of our nation's history, the Constitution and what it says and then act offended when they receive the sort of response they deserve.
Stay or leave...makes no difference to me...you are off by an order of magnitude or more as to how many people visit this website, but if no one read it except me, as long as I am honest in what I say and willing to correct any factual errors I may make (a very, very rare occurrence), I am happy.
BTW...
You Liberals love to make snide, dissmissive remarks to Conservatives and then play the innocent; it doesn't wash here. I have been arguing politics with Liberals for just about four decades; I know you and I know how you think...probably better than you know yourself.
Your thought processes are muddled by the indoctination you received in school, your "reasoning" befogged by emotion, and your knowledge and understanding of the Constitution, our national history, and what makes America the great nation it is, is sorely lacking.
Don't take it personally, it's just who Liberals are.
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