Thread: Flashback: Limbaugh foresaw Sotomayor pick in '97

I know someone is going to find this amusing....but I am a little too busy to give out his name.

Originally Posted by min0 lee

I know someone is going to find this amusing....but I am a little too busy to give out his name.

..but I already know that name, its not me that's for sure.

Originally Posted by min0 lee

I know someone is going to find this amusing....but I am a little too busy to give out his name.

She is actually more centrist than most people realize. We need to look at her rulings.....( facts vs limbaugh's hysteria)

Supreme Court Nominee Sotomayor's Record Shows Rulings Within Liberal Mainstream - WSJ.com

Her record in more than 4,000 cases, including those from 11 years on the Second Circuit, shows her occasional siding with corporate defendants or diverting from a standard liberal position.

The judge has favored corporate defendants in suits that test when cases can be brought as class actions. Judges often must determine whether plaintiffs' claims should be pre-empted by more defense-friendly federal and international laws.

"There is no reason for the business community to be concerned" about Judge Sotomayor, said Lauren Rosenblum Goldman, a partner at Mayer Brown LLP who has represented businesses including Wachovia Corp. and Dow Chemical Co.

In King v. American Airlines Inc., Judge Sotomayor ruled against an African-American couple who claimed they were bumped from a flight because of their race. The judge concluded their case was pre-empted by international law that governs air travel. "We urged a different interpretation, but her decision was in conformity with what other courts were doing," said Robert Isseks, a New York attorney who represented the plaintiffs. "We were paddling upstream."

The Hispanic Factor in Sotomayor Choice
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Executive Washington editor Jerry Seib discusses how Republicans will need to consider President Obama's Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor if they hope to gain a larger share of Hispanic voters.
In 2006, the judge was part of a Second Circuit panel that ruled investors couldn't proceed with a class-action suit accusing Wall Street banks of fraudulently pricing initial public offerings. The ruling negated settlements that would have yielded investors more than $1 billion. "That ruling demonstrated that in securities litigation, she is in the judicial mainstream," said Barry Ostrager, a partner at Simpson Thacher LLP who represented a unit of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. in the matter.

Big business, the republican vangaurd, need not worry. She seems to side with them.

Originally Posted by bandaidwoman

She is actually more centrist than most people realize. We need to look at her rulings.....( facts vs limbaugh's hysteria)

Supreme Court Nominee Sotomayor's Record Shows Rulings Within Liberal Mainstream - WSJ.com



Big business, the republican vangaurd, need not worry. She seems to side with them.

over 2/3 of her rulings have been overturned, and she's been repremanded for having no legal justification for some of them... but honestly, it doesn't make much of a difference if she's a lefty... she's replacing a lefty.

Originally Posted by busyLivin

... but honestly, it doesn't make much of a difference if she's a lefty... she's replacing a lefty.

I have a funny feeling she will pull a david souter, nominated by republican bush but became quite liberal in his supreme court rulings. For instance, there is absolutely no data she supports roe vs wade,( heck, she even went to a catholic school) ... abortion proponents are concerned.