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发帖数: 6571 | 1 Sonia Sotomayor Says She Would Have Bashed Scalia with a Baseball Bat
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.19 Oct 2016
NY Daily News
In an unguarded moment Monday, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said
that conservative Justice Antonin Scalia occasionally made her so angry that
she would have beaten him with a baseball bat if she could have.
During a Q&A session at the University of Minnesota with some 2,700 people
present, Sotomayor admitted that Scalia’s opinions sometimes infuriated her.
“There are things he’s said on the bench,” Sotomayor told the room full
of lawyers and students, “where if I had a baseball bat, I might have used
it.”
Slate LGBT commentator Mark Stern suggested that Sotomayor’s baseball bat
comment probably referred to Scalia’s remarks during arguments in a recent
affirmative action case.
Stern’s hypothesis gains plausibility in the light of a number of scathing
opinions that emerged following President Obama’s choice of Sotomayor for
the high court in 2010, where pundits accused Obama of “dumbing down” the
court with the appointment of a less-than-qualified lawyer who was herself
the product of “affirmative action.”
Writing for CNN, Ilya Shapiro said that in his choice of Sonia Sotomayor, “
President Obama has confirmed that identity politics matter to him more than
merit. While Judge Sotomayor exemplifies the American Dream, she would not
have even been on the short list if she were not Hispanic.”
Shapiro noted that “in over 10 years on the Second Circuit, she has not
issued any important decisions or made a name for herself as a legal scholar
or particularly respected jurist.”
In picking a case to highlight during his introduction of the nominee,
Shapiro wrote, “President Obama had to go back to her days as a trial judge
and a technical ruling that ended the 1994-95 baseball strike.”
Critics of Sotomayor, however, were not confined to the Right but spanned
the gamut all the way to the far Left.
In a letter to President Barack Obama in 2009, his former Harvard law
professor and mentor Laurence Tribe tried to convince the President not to
appoint Sotomayor, saying that despite her “demographic appeal” she was
not qualified for the job and would stir dissension among the justices.
Although he acknowledged his intent to move the court in a “pragmatically
progressive direction,” Tribe counseled the President to steer clear of
Sotomayor.
“If you were to appoint someone like Sonia Sotomayor,” Tribe wrote, “
whose personal history and demographic appeal you don’t need me to
underscore, I am concerned that the impact within the court would be
negative in these respects.”
“Bluntly put, she’s not nearly as smart as she seems to think she is, and
her reputation for being something of a bully could well make her liberal
impulses backfire and simply add to the fire power of the Roberts/Alito/
Scalia/Thomas wing of the Court,” he said.
According to Slate, during Court arguments, Sotomayor often watched Scalia
with “a leery gaze,” as though she were dreading the next statement to
leave his mouth. When he spoke, “Sotomayor remained frozen in a steely
stare,” the article states.
Which probably explains why she would have liked to beat him with a baseball
bat, had she had the chance.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/10/19/sonia-sotomayor-says-she-would-have-bashed-scalia-with-a-baseball-bat/ | I******I
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发帖数: 43 | 3 I know she's not that smart, but I didn't know she got a reputation for
being a bully. What a "wise Latina."
“Bluntly put, she’s not nearly as smart as she seems to think she is, and
her reputation for being something of a bully could well make her liberal
impulses backfire and simply add to the fire power of the Roberts/Alito/
Scalia/Thomas wing of the Court,” he said. | T**********e
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发帖数: 1634 | 5 老变态晚死了几年.
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【在 g********2 的大作中提到】
: Sonia Sotomayor Says She Would Have Bashed Scalia with a Baseball Bat
: by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.19 Oct 2016
: NY Daily News
: In an unguarded moment Monday, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said
: that conservative Justice Antonin Scalia occasionally made her so angry that
: she would have beaten him with a baseball bat if she could have.
: During a Q&A session at the University of Minnesota with some 2,700 people
: present, Sotomayor admitted that Scalia’s opinions sometimes infuriated her.
: “There are things he’s said on the bench,” Sotomayor told the room full
: of lawyers and students, “where if I had a baseball bat, I might have used
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发帖数: 2787 | 9 真的是她下手的？不打自招？
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that
her.
used
【在 g********2 的大作中提到】
: Sonia Sotomayor Says She Would Have Bashed Scalia with a Baseball Bat
: by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.19 Oct 2016
: NY Daily News
: In an unguarded moment Monday, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said
: that conservative Justice Antonin Scalia occasionally made her so angry that
: she would have beaten him with a baseball bat if she could have.
: During a Q&A session at the University of Minnesota with some 2,700 people
: present, Sotomayor admitted that Scalia’s opinions sometimes infuriated her.
: “There are things he’s said on the bench,” Sotomayor told the room full
: of lawyers and students, “where if I had a baseball bat, I might have used
| g********2
发帖数: 6571 | 10 这个女人是AA的最大收益者，终生受益，老床上台还不能把她fire掉。 |
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