Right’s Reaction to Sotomayor is Swift, Damning and Hypocritical « The Washington Independent
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Likely lending a taste of the partisan, ideological ranting that’s sure to accompany the debate over President Obama’s pick of federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor to be the next Supreme Court justice, here’s a statementjust issued by Wendy E. Long, former clerk to Clarence Thomas and counsel to the conservative Judicial Confirmation Network.
“„Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written. She thinks that judges should dictate policy, and that one’s sex, race, and ethnicity ought to affect the decisions one renders from the bench.
The Judicial Confirmation Network, calls itself“an organization of citizens joined together to support the confirmation of highly qualified individuals to the Supreme Court” — individuals, they say, who won’t “use the power of the court to impose his or her personal or political agenda on the people.”
Here, though, is the May 16 New York Times descriptionof how the group intends to impose its own personal and political agenda on the process.
“„Gary Marx, executive director of the conservative Judicial Confirmation Network, said donors, whom he declined to identify, had committed to contributing millions of dollars for television, radio and Internet advertisements that might reunite conservatives in a confirmation battle.
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