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Sonia Sotomayor | 07/29/2009 8:00 am

Women's Group Calls on Senate to Confirm Sonia Sotomayor to Supreme Court

Sotomayor would be the third women ever on the bench, and the National Women’s Law Center isn’t taking any chances, rounding up support.
By The Staff at wowOwow.com
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Women’s groups are urging women everywhere to contact their senators and urge them to give a thumbs-up to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.

The Bronx-born Sotomayor was confirmed by the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday by a vote of 13 to 6, with Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina the only Republican joining the panel’s 12 Democrats in voting to confirm her. It is expected the full Senate will vote on the nomination next week, also expected that Sotomayor will be confirmed. The "no" votes by Judiciary Republican Sens. Orrin Hatch of Utah and Charles Grassley of Iowa are signs of what likely will be solid Republican opposition to the first Hispanic and third female nominated to the Supreme Court. It was the first time Grassley voted against a Supreme Court nominee of either political party in 29 years. So Sotomayor supporters aren’t taking any chances.

"The strong vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee today underscores Judge Sotomayor’s extraordinary qualifications," The National Women’s Law Center said in an e-mail to supporters on Tuesday. "As our report on Judge Sotomayor’s 17-year judicial record, legal experience and testimony before the Committee demonstrate, she is an impressive judge who is deeply respectful of legal precedent and anchors her decisions in the specific facts of the case … Contact your senators and tell them to vote to confirm Judge Sotomayor as the next Supreme Court Justice. Your actions make a difference."

Tell us: Do you think Sotomayor will be confirmed? 

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deber B
The vote is 13 to 6…so she will be appointed.   This is no longer news.  She is on her way!
By deber B on 07/29/2009 8:26 am
L. C.

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER … I GUESS !

While, all help is appreciated.

 Where were all the women’s organizations in the beginning? Where was "The National Women’s Law Center?"

Now that Judge Sotomayor is about to be confirmed these groups are stepping in to claim victory and take bows for their participation. I have no problem eating humble pie if they’re been active from the start and it did not make media coverage. Where were they when President Obama first nominated her? Were they organizing and bombarding the media in outrage?

These self serving groups and politicians are sickening. They usually wait until the game is over and then shout the loudest!

Of course Judge Sotomayor will be confirmed and rightly so!

By L. C. on 07/29/2009 8:29 am
L. C.

 Clarity regards to Judge Sotomayor :  Were these groups  bombarding the media in outrage regarding how badly she was treated during the hearings?

Were they demonstrating their support when President Obama first nominated her?

By L. C. on 07/29/2009 8:34 am
newzie snoozie

i truly doant to know where are these ladies when the health care  "t h i n g "  is  about to blow us albetsy mc/cal away from this earth?  where are they when i get the news that  BETSY  McCAUGHEY  THE NEW YORK LT. GOVERNOR TALKS TO SENATOR THOMPSON AND THELLS HIM  SHE HAS READ THE  HEALTH  CARE  PKGTHAT O’BAMA WANTS  US ALL TO LEARN HOW OT KILL OURSELVES. HOWBY GOING OT THE  PERSON SOMEWHERE AND THTA PERSON TEACHES US ALL TO DEHYDRATE OUR PARENMTS KIDS OR  OURSELVES  BECAUSE WE ARE NO LONGER  WORKABLE FOR THE COUBNTRY SP WE SHOULD KILL OURSELVES OFF  THENTHE SRs ARE THE ONEBS WHO MUST GO TO HELL FIRST.   AND THEN THE SEVERLY HANDICAPPED HAVE TO BE PUT TO DEATH BY THE PARENTS AND  IF SOEMONE COMES UP  WITH A NEW CASE  OF CANCER THEN THEY MUST KILL OFF THEMSELVES BY GOINGOT  A PLACE WHERE THE PERSON IS THTA TEACHES US HOW TO KILL OURSELVES , PARENTS OR KIDS.   I HAVE A QUAD FOR A SON WHO HAS BEEN A QUAD  FOR 27 YRS.  I CNA NOT SEE ME KILLING HIM OFF. I DO NOT DESIRE TO GO      TO   HELL FOR BEING A MURDERER.   I AM A SENIOR CITIZEN AND I HAVE  JUST HAD ANOTHER KNEE SURGERY .  SO NOW BOTH OF THEM ARE MESSED UP AND MY BACK HAS BEEN FUSED IN THE LUMBAR AREATHE BACK SURGERY IS 8 TO 9 INCHES LONG. THE SURGEON TOLD ME THAT.  I HAVE HAD 2 STROKES SO NOW IF O’BAMA HAS HIS WAY I MUST GO TO THE BUILDING  TO LEARN TO KILL MYSELF BECAUSE I CAN NOT HELP THE COUNTRY IN ANYWAY I AM NOW CLASSIFIED USELESS AND COSTING THE COUNTRY MONEYBETSY SAYS  THAT ON PAGE 425  REALLY SCARES HER AS DO  PAGES 61 AND 17.  GET IN TOUCH WITH HER. I DO HOPE SHE DOESN’T GET KILLED IN OUR WORLD FOR READING IT.

THE WAY THTA I OUT THIS DOWN  SOUNDS AWFUL  AND AWFUL IT IS.   WHEN SEN. THOMPSON ASK HER  WHY WOULD YOY THINK BETSY THAT O’BAMA WANTS  THIS VOTED ON BEFOR THEY ALL GO ON THE LONG VACATION AND SHE SAID  ———————-HE DOES NOT WANT THEM GOING HOME  WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE  APT TO GET AHOLD OF HIM AND ASK HIM TO VOTE IT DOWN. THE CONGRESSAND SENATORS  ARE TO WORK FOR THE PEOPLE AND  THE PEOPLE MUST BE LISTENED TO  FOR THEM TO DO  WHAT THE VOTERS WANT THEM TO DO.  

O’BAMA  HAD SPENT TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS  TO GET US TO THE END OF HOW WE ONCE WERE SO COMFORTABLE , H EI S THE PRESIDENT OF AMERICA AND HE  DOESN’T WANT US  TO APPEAR BETTER THEN  THE OTHER COUNTRIES. WE ARE RAPIDLY GETTING DUMBER AND DUMBER AND  THERE IS NO HOPE FOR US BECVAUSE THE PARENTS HAVE GIVEN UP WITH THE TEACHING THE KIDS  TO BE GOOD AND TO READ AND TO LEARN  SO WIPE THEM OUT IF THEY ARE NOT GOING OT GET THEIR KIDS  TO BE BETTER THEN THE OTHER COUNTRIES. HE WANST THE BESTHE IS TOO FULL OF B.S. BETTER PERHAPS KNOWEN AS  CRAP OR NMANNURE.

ANOTHER THING I HERAD COME OUT OF BETSY’S MOUTH BLEW ME AWAY. IF WE HAVE A SORE EYE PROBLEM AND WE GET THAT SORE EYE TREATED THEN WE CNA NOT GET  MORE PRESCRIPTIONS UNTILL THE OTHER EYE GOES BLIND THEN WE MAY GET MORE MEDS.                   ANOTHER ONE IS  THIS.—————-IT DOESN’T MATTER HOW MUCH MONEY  WE HAVE  AND WE COULD BUY MORE MEDICINES FOR ILLENSSESOH, NOWE CAN NOT USE OUR OWN MONEY TO GET US BETTER SOONER WE CAN NOT USE OUR OWN MONEY  TO BETTER OURSELVES.

IT IS MUCH MORE LIKELY THAT HE IS SOME SORT OF A HITLER  AND THE GAS  CHAMBERS…………IS MY OPINIONWE ALL THOUGHT HE WAS THE  MAN FOR THE PRESIDENT. I WASN’T SOLD ON HIM I WAS GOING TO VOTE FOR MCCAIN   THEN HE BROUGHT JOE BIDEN INTO THE PICTURE. THEN HE GAVE JOE BIDEN THE CHOICE   AND HE TOOK THE CHOICE TO BE THE VICE PRESIDENTSO I THOUGHT JOE BIDEN WILL KEEP IT IN HAND.   BOY WAS I WRONGTHEN POLOSIE  SHE IS 3RD IN LINEANYONE OTHER THEN MYSELF  WANT TO HEAR  THE WORD IMPEACH.?  CLINTON ONLY NEVER ENTERED THE GIRL.  O’BAMA IS STICKING IT TO ALL OF US AT ONCE.

HOW CAN WE EVER GET THIGNS BACK TO WHERE THEY NEED TO BE SO WE CAN GET BACK OUR PRIDEOUR TRUST IN POLITICIANS ………….I WANT TO  BE PROUD OF AMERICAN LADIES  HOW ABOUT SPEAKING UP AND DOING SOMETHIGN WORTH WHILE??  HUH?

NEXT DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT THE WOMENS GROUPS DO NOT GO IN UNTILL THEY FEAR  IT WILL ALL BE OVER  AND THEY NEVER GOT TO PUT 2 CENTS IN THERE  FOR RECOGNITION

By newzie snoozie on 07/29/2009 9:24 am
DeBúrca obj
At least type the Hitler comparisons in lower case for crying out loud, do the rant have to offend both the mind AND the eyes?! 
By DeBúrca obj on 07/29/2009 10:09 am
DeBúrca obj
Typo: rants
By DeBúrca obj on 07/29/2009 10:13 am
DeBúrca obj
I just wish these groups would have come out strongly in objection to the sexist allegations by that group of anonymous lawyers’ who stated that she was "difficult" "temperamental" and "nasty" and the fact that Senator Lindsey Graham would actually give credence to such sexism by asking her about these charges during the confirmation hearings! 
By DeBúrca obj on 07/29/2009 8:51 am
newzie snoozie
LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, I COME TO YOU TO PRAY FOR MY COUNTRY. I ASK THE HOLY SPIRIT TO FLOW THROUGHOUT  AMERICA. WAKE THE SLEEPING  ONES WHO DO NOT KNOW YOU YET  THEN FILL THEM WITH THE GIFTS  OF JOY, PEACE , HAPPINESS, CONFIDENCE, FORGIVENESS,AND YOUR LOVE . LORD LIFT US OUT AND AWAY FROM  THE EVIL  THAT IS FLOATING OVER AMERICA RIGHT NIW, IN JESUS NAME I ASK THIS AND I ASK THAT PEOPLE READ THEIR BIBLES ASKING YOU TO HELP THEM  AS THEY READ EACH INDIVIDUSLSA WORD, JESUS THATNK YOU FOR THE USE OF  YOUR NAME  AMEN
By newzie snoozie on 07/29/2009 9:28 am
Maggie W

What in the world is newzie snoozie ranting about?  " Clinton only never entered the girl"…???  Sheesh!

Sonia will be the new Supreme.  But that dog and pony show they called a hearing has to stop.  There has to be a saner and more professional way to question a prospect for the bench.  All that political posturing was infantile and self serving. It had nothing to do with the lady seated before them.

 

By Maggie W on 07/29/2009 9:35 am
English Teacher
I doesn’t take long for them to start coming out, does it? :)
By English Teacher on 07/29/2009 9:52 am
English Teacher

Well, consider the source! I don’t know about you, but watching Graham’s extremely condescending lecture, I was DYING to know what Sotomayor was scribbling on her legal pad… Did that jackass just suggest I need to reflect on MY temperament!?

And BTW, isn’t it a remarkable coincidence that so many successful women seem to need anger management?  :)  

By English Teacher on 07/29/2009 9:50 am
Maggie W

My favorite clown( among the many to choose from)  was Jeffrey Beauregard Sessions III.  Here’s one of his many quips, "  I don’t believe Judge Sotomayor has the deep-rooted convictions necessary to resist the siren call of judicial activism.”  The " siren call"???  WT….

Jeffrey was quite proud of his never ending performances ( camera man… here I am, over here!), happily telling a reporter he was going home to " think up some more questions".

 

By Maggie W on 07/29/2009 10:29 am
S G
He is such a racist morn.
By S G on 07/29/2009 11:40 am
S G
typo  moron
By S G on 07/29/2009 11:42 am
San T
I wondered the same about her note taking. It’s amazing how reflections such as these never change regarding a woman’s temperament + profession. 
By San T on 07/29/2009 10:36 am