Word: sotomayor
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...Mahoney worried that, "politically, this could not have happened at a worse time." A Gallup poll in May found for the first time more Americans considering themselves pro-life than pro-choice. Mahoney had hoped this would inspire Republicans to take a hard line on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor and her views, largely unknown, of Roe v. Wade. "This might take some of the wind out of that issue," he said. (TIME Archive: "Fear in the Land...
...Sotomayor, Sonia •attacks by conservatives on - despite summa cum laude degree and various other academic achievements of - as an intellectual lightweight...
...Mike Huckabee refers to as "Maria Sotomayor" because, you know, aren't all Latina women named Maria...
Limbaugh, Rush •desire of for Sotomayor to - yep, you guessed it - FAIL...
...Perhaps. But for all the controversy or appeal that sentiment may arouse, it's not a useful guide to how Sotomayor has ruled. Like that of most lower-court judges, much of her history on the bench has involved minute applications of the law, not the kind of cases in which life experience, even when it is as inspiring as hers, would have offered much guidance. There tend to be more cases of the big-picture kind on the Supreme Court, and if she gets there, she may take the opportunity to become the passionate liberal she has never really...