Sonia Sotomayor | 07/29/2009 8:00 am
Women's Group Calls on Senate to Confirm Sonia Sotomayor to Supreme Court

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."
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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!
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?
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 PKG. THAT O’BAMA WANTS US ALL TO LEARN HOW OT KILL OURSELVES. HOW? BY 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 THEN. THE 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 AREA. THE 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 MONEY. BETSY 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 BEST. HE 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 ILLENSSES. OH, NO, WE 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 OPINION. WE 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 PRESIDENT . SO I THOUGHT JOE BIDEN WILL KEEP IT IN HAND. BOY WAS I WRONG. THEN POLOSIE SHE IS 3RD IN LINE. ANYONE 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 PRIDE? OUR 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.
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.
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? :)
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".