Bench player: In ‘95, Supreme Court pick saved baseball season
Sotomayor with the president and vice president
President Barack Obama this morning selected appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor as his pick for the Supreme Court, putting her in line to become the court’s first Hispanic justice.
However, sports fans in St. Louis and around the country may already know her as the woman who saved a baseball season.
In April 1995, the Cardinals and other teams were set to use replacement players to open the season after the strike that ended play in 1994 still had not come to an end.
As the New York Times wrote while Sotomayor was being vetted, the Brooklyn-born jurist was asked to uphold a finding from the National Labor Relations Board against the owners.
Sotomayor, then a district court judge in New York, ordered the owners to restore free agent bidding and salary arbitration, issuing an injunction that put Major League players back on the field for the first time in nearly eight months.
The only team that truly never recovered from the strike was the Montreal Expos, who were in first place when the season was called in 1994. After years of futility following the shortened season, the team did what Sotomayor is hoping to do: Move to D.C.
The Expos, of course, are now the Washington Nationals — but they’re still in last place.
This woman could possibly be the worse Justice in the history of the court.
Her quote: “Court is where policy is made” See it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfC99LrrM2Q&
But… it gets better and better:
“She’s not that smart and kind of a bully on the bench… Her opinions, although competent, are viewed by former prosecutors as not especially clean or tight, and sometimes miss the forest for the trees.”
And as a added bonus… she’s a racist:
“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life,” said Judge Sotomayor, who is now considered to be near the top of President Obama’s list of potential Supreme Court nominees…
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/us/15judge.html?_r=1
Gateway Pundit has this covered:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/05/obama-picks-sonia-sotamayor-for-supreme.html
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tsquare - Being an ideologue of marginal intellectual quality who has made explicitly racist public statements only disqualifies you if you’re a Republican nominee.
Her “white male” comments are offensive. Obama says she will reflect how normal people live. Normal people who went to Princeton and Yale? Again, elites tap elites. Normal people need to start electing normal people. That is the only way we will stop being ruled by the Ivy League elites.
True Nick… oh so true…
Shockingly enough, Sotomayor is correct. The appellate courts are one area where policy is made. The US follows common law. That means judges make laws. Statute don’t cover everything. They must be interpreted and those interpretations are followed as law. Its not activism, its simply the judicial system setup by our founding fathers. Its funny that “activism” only seems to bother conservatives when talking about left-leaning judges. Somehow they manage to ignore conservative “activist” judges.
Well, yeah, she’s a racist and sexist and thinks Courts are where policy decisions should be made, but…she saved Baseball. Come on, she can’t be all bad, can she?
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com ??
Hmmmm… I don’t see them on the Blog Roll; why is that?
On the plus side… Senator Claire — as one of Judge Sotomayor’s “sherpas” — will once again make an absolute fool of herself.
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JJK - The difference is that most judges who went to Princeton and Yale didn’t also grow up in a housing project. This is a “pull yourself up by your bootstaps” example. I thought this is what conservatives were always looking for.
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com ??
Hmmmm… I don’t see them on the Blog Roll; why is that?
Ahhh… BobZ you know why…
The Post has a policy of not advancing anything to help the GOP or the conservative cause in general… so none of the blogs listed belong to conservatives. I have brought up the fine, fine work of Jim Hoft before… and those at the Post ignore the issue.
Absurd. Membership in an elite is not dependant on your early childhood. Obama=Harvard=Elite. It is time Americans take back their country from the Ivy League Elite.