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07.30.2009 6:50 pm

Questioning judicial nominees is the right thing to do

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

 

 
It appears that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has issued a warning to the GOP that they better vote for Justice Sotomayor for Supreme Court or face a backlash.  I think the facts should be reviewed a little bit here…
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07.28.2009 5:09 pm

Sotomayor and statistics

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

In a recent letter to the editor, a reader opined the questionable “fact” that as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has had 60 percent of her rulings overturned by the Supreme…

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06.26.2009 5:56 pm

Still living ina Fred Astaire world

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

You made an interesting point–that Sotomayor can now wear low-heeled shoes. Has anyone reported just what type of shoes she and Hillary Clinton were wearing when they injured themselves?  Can a woman “hit her stride” in high-heeled shoes? Is there…

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06.24.2009 4:33 pm

The importance of the rule of law

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Apparently a lot of people don’t understand the theory of “Rule of Law, not Rule of Man,” and why it’s so important to this country.

 

Let’s try to explain it this way: in baseball, the hitter gets 3 strikes before he’s…

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06.12.2009 5:01 pm

Be angry if you must, but be truthful, too

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I laughed out loud at Amanda Schmitt’s contention in her letter (”Controversy of Race”, June 9) that “there are many more qualified people who could have and should have been nominated” to the Supreme Court, and that “Ms. Sotomayor’s nomination…

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06.02.2009 5:59 pm

Is this how we want our Supreme Court installed?

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Boy our politicians don’t care who knows how they feel. They call the new Supreme Court candidate racially wrong since  she was picked. Now they’re going to quit calling her that because it may hurt their elction hopes..It hasn’t been proven…
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06.02.2009 5:53 pm

Taking down a career based on one (out of context) sentence

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The right-wing mouths like Limbaugh, who has gotten filthy rich spouting hate, are condemning the President’s Supreme Court choice for one sentence out of years of speeches and writings, a sentence that she modified further into the same speech. The…

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