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Supporters say Sotomayor would bring much needed passion and real-world experience to the Supreme Court, while detractors claim she bullies attorneys from the bench and lacks intellectual firepower. A divorced food buff who listens to soft rock, Sotomayor once reportedly joked about the ease of filling out financial-disclosure forms on her relatively modest judicial salary: "When you don't have money, it's easy. There isn't anything there to report...
Time, after all, is what the party needs if it has any hope whatsoever of uncovering some kind of silver bullet - buried somewhere in the 17 years of Sotomayor's federal judicial writings - that could help sink her nomination. Challenging a candidate first nominated to the bench by President George H.W. Bush and twice confirmed by the Senate, after all, would be hard enough. But at a time when the party has already alienated Hispanic voters, the GOP knows it has to tread very carefully in dealing with the first Hispanic candidate for the nation's highest court, especially...
...they are also under enormous pressure from conservative activist groups - Rush Limbaugh called Sotomayor and Obama "reverse racists" - to not let her go through without a real fight. "President Obama carried through on his threat to nominate a Justice who would indulge her policy preferences and biases on the bench," says Ed Whelan, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a group opposing Sotomayor's candidacy. "I'm going to continue to do all I can to expose Sotomayor's view of judging and why she's not a good pick for the court." (Read "Judge Sonia Sotomayor Headed...
...helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear. It has helped me to understand, respect and respond to the concerns and arguments of all litigants who appear before me as well as to the views of my colleagues on the bench...
...truth, like that of most lower-court judges, much of Sotomayor's history on the bench has involved the minute application of legal technicalities, not the kind of cases in which life experience, even one as inspiring as hers, would have offered much guidance. There may be more cases of that kind on the Supreme Court - when and if she gets there...