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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
you don't want diversity of opinions when you are asking someone to apply the Constitution without bias.
you don't need a Harvard Law degree to understand that.
The constitution and its application is not about "personal views", or "personal life experience" or "ethnic background" or "empathy"
And the funny thing is that if i asked everyone is Jerry Falwell should be a Supreme Court Justice... his "opinions" would suddenly become VERY important
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Everyone applies bias to their views -- one of the biggest problems is the idea white men have no bias. Everyone has bias. So, clearly it is a charade both liberals and conservatives play -- they want bias to balance views. "Activism" is done by both conservatives and liberals. In addition, Alito, Thomas and Roberts were all praised for their "empathy."
On the selection of judges -- Reagan actually campaigned on promising to appoint the first female S.C. justice, H.W. Bush selected Thomas at 42 y.o. having had very little track record as a judge to the S.C. to replace Marshall. Scalia was undoubtedly selected for his Italian-Catholic background. In addition, there have been other "ethnic" seats on the bench since the turn of the century.
So, Gleem you are uneducated on the topic -- Sotomayor has the most experience of any of the people appointed to the S.C. AND has been on the "short list" for the past 10 years or so given she has almost the same educational background (slightly better grades from the same school -- ironically after Alito joined an organization to keep princeton from becoming coed.) and longer history as a Judge, prosecutitor and private sector lawyer than Alito. So, it's pretty funny that people get upset about arguably the one of the MOST "qualified" S.C. picks in judicial history. In other words, you are full of it up to your ears.
Judges are NOT impartial, there is no reason to pretend that they are.
I'm surprised no one has made an issue of how many Catholics are on the court.
anyway, go to volokh . com if you want real conservative reasoning why not to like Sotomayor as opposed to these random and off-target remarks.
Ironically, for those conservatives, the president is only constrained by the "advice and consent" of senate. So, qualifications really shouldn't be a concern if we want to "strictly" follow the constitution.
Of course, we all bring in outside "experience" and "bias" to help us determine qualifications right?