Comments on: A Sotomayor Ruling Worse Than Kelo

By: canary

canary — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:00:05 +0000

Sotomayer: I must give it the deference that the doctrine of stare decisis would suggest.

“I must” ? She just contradicts herself left and right. The AP came out with an article this evening, that she has not messed up once yet. I stopped reading it at that point. The Democrats have turned politics into a social club affair. Anything goes.

By: neocon mom

neocon mom — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:14:53 +0000

“Worse yet, for some reason she does not seem to view an amendment to the Constitution as ‘settled law.’
Whereas she does view the rulings of our black robed mullahs are carved in stone.”

Loved Tom Coburn leaving her speechless with something similar to this today.

By: pdsand

pdsand — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:37:20 +0000

objects lay, people lie, right?

By: Reality Bytes

Reality Bytes — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:50:58 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....8;index=67

How Far We’ve Come…

By: proreason

proreason — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:01:17 +0000

Red Sonya is selective in her memory and selective in her application of precedents.

Like anyone else would be.

The fact that her selection in controversial matters is consistently on the side of uberlib communistfacist doctrine is probably just coincidence.

We’ll know for sure in 20 years.

If the country is still around.

By: U NO HOO

U NO HOO — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:52:00 +0000

Yeah, the golf course, and the fact that Kelo land is also, as I understand it, now just laying/lying dormant after all.

I just can’t get lying/laying sitting/setting straight in my mind after all these glucose sotted years.

By: pdsand

pdsand — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:18:55 +0000

What about the private golf course on Long Island that the city used eminent domain to seize and convert into a public golf course?

By: U NO HOO

U NO HOO — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:16:50 +0000

Eminent domain should be used only in EXTREME situations. Maybe we should constitutionalize a maximum of once per year in the US. (Semi-kidding)

Case in point, Tocks Island Dam on the Delaware River. The land was taken, structures razed, the environmentalists got their way, and now the land sits/sets idle and people are off their land.

Slippery slope ring a familiar note?

By: BannedbytheTaliban

BannedbytheTaliban — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:01:31 +0000

“Worse yet, for some reason she does not seem to view an amendment to the Constitution as ‘settled law.’
Whereas she does view the rulings of our black robed mullahs are carved in stone.”

My thoughts exactly SG!

My other thought, were was her sense of Social Justice when the big money hungry corporations were claiming eminent domain over the poor and downtrodden in the name of economic development?

Or the Constitutions concern for abuse of power by giving elected officials say over who can claim eminent domain?

The Banned litmus test for Justices:

Name one instance when your ruling was against your own political beliefs because it was mandated by the constitution.

By: pdsand

pdsand — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:54:26 +0000

A fine example of her famously mainstream record on the bench, right?

By: wardmama4

wardmama4 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:52:58 +0000

Kelo was scary – this is even more so – wonder if someone will have the guts to go back to this – and get her to say what she thinks.

But no – like Ginsberg – she will be seated before we find out she endorses and believes in eugenics.

How can anyone claim that Republicans are the racists – when this bunch is the champion and cheerleaders of stuff that would make Hilter blush?