How Many Sotomayor Opinions Were Overturned?

Posted By: I'm all in @ 06/29/2009 5:36:34 PM
In the grand scheme of things most of us are really unaffected by the Supreme Court, despite what the Gun and Religeos Pac may say.

Do you really believe that? I'll take the most obvious, Roe vs. Wade. That ruling weather you agree or disagree has changed our society. And I'll leave it's morality to each of you that read this.

Roe vs. Wade, started as one woman wanting to terminate her pregnancy. This was denied by Wade representing the state of Texas. The Supreme Court ruled in her favor. Based on that ruling a new industry sprouted: abortion clinics.

The last ruling by Sonamayor, if not overturned could have far reaching affects. How about instead of a white fireman it was a black fireman. Read this in the New York Time, black fireman not hired because not enough minorities applied for position.

How about you and me at work. No promotion unless a certain amount of minorities apply for the same position. A little farfetched, agreed.

But what number on minorities are needed before someone can be hired for a position? And are we talking about only black vs. white? Why not Asian? Why not Native American? Why not Hispanic? And what is the quantity of each.

So, based on the above, we would need a certain number--unknown--of Asians, Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, apply for our job positions before we could be hired by our companies. Notice I did not include Caucasians--commonly known as whites.

Now this may toast your noodle--Matrix--what about Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Polish Americans, etc.

The point isn't really what she said about a Latino woman and white man. Personally that's her opinion and we all have opinions one way or the other. The problem as I see it, Sotomayor can't separate her opinions from the law--creating gray rulings.
Now I'm not the sharpest knife in the draw, but, as I understand it, the supreme court does not go looking for rulings to overturn. I believe rulings are appealed and eventually work their way up to the court. Then they decide to review the ruling or not.
Now would the number of overturned rulings by Sotomayor be greater if they were all appealed and went to the Supreme Court?
Just because someone has a hard life and makes good does not mean they are the right person for the job. Look at the people you work with. Are they all good at what they do?

The real point is the racist comments she made not once but several times. The point here is that she should not sit on that bench because of those remarks. If you think otherwise then you have nothing to say if a white man makes a similar statement and then is put in the same position. The simple fact is that had McCain won, and he was nominating some older white conservative who had made the statement that "A wise white man, based on the richness of his life experience, would reach a better conclusion than a woman of a minority race.", there is no way he would get confirmed. Nobody would say that the issue is his voting record. Nobody would say that it was OK for him to say that. Nobody would make excuses for him, or by his excuses when he tried to say that wasn't what he meant. Simple fact is, that one statement would have sunk his nomination. You don't solve racial equality problems by treating the races differently. You don't make excuses for impropriety. You solve racial problems by insisting that in all instances, the races be treated equally. Period.

grayguy_1942 has landed n the ral significance of Satamayor's cases that jave been overturned by the US Supreme Court. This is the fact that she has had 6 cases that have now have had to even been reviewed by the it, ad then 60% (now 67%or 2/3) have been overturned on constiutional grounds. This is not good for someone who now aspires to uphold the constitution in the highest court of the land!! Of course this significance could not have been missed by Newsweek. One must only assume that they have joined most of the press in their blind worship of our own Glorious Ledear amd Premier, Barack Hussein Obama II, and his fight against the empirilstic Capitalist Pigs. Imagine...if you will, a world were there is no constiituiion to restrain the good and peaceful intent of the leftists in our government who wish to stamp out capitalism, traditional moral values, and our evil oppulent Western lifestyles. Only one or two more leftist Supreme Court justices and Newsweek's vision of a better world will be fulfilled. Yes we can...yes we can...yes we can.......!!!!

As I understand the 60% in question: of her five major rulings reviewed by the Supreme Court, three have been overturned.

Every comment for this article--that I read--all refer to Rush Limbaugh. But the article was written to bolster Obama's choice of candidates for the Supreme Court. No one commented on that.

Well guys it's June 29 and guess what, Sotomayor overturned again. Now the total is 4 of 6.

One question about your report. I believe you said the Supreme Court has a habit of more than 60% overturns of lower court rulings. But, you didn't mention how many they have overturned for any one judge.

Who gets the blue ribbon?

The more I am exposed to the radical right the more I celebrate my militant centrist position. When competence and honor become liabilities, incompetence and dishonor become the norm. No society can survive long with the extremes whipsawing the systems.

Here's a typical debate by notsoquiet.

A blogger says that President obama should close Gitmo

Not so quiet says, You're an idiot, Have you got more that a 6th grade education?

Blogger, Stick to the subject, Gitmo.

not so quiet, Are you afraid to answer my question/

blogger, What's my education got to do with it?

notsoquiet, because i'm banging your wife and mother.

This guy thinks his opinion would ever be taken seriously? he just a small minded filthy little jerk.

This is the first time i recall the Republicans wanting Limbaugh to shut up and the Democrats wanting him to keep talking. Is Ole Rushbo a Democrat plant?

When the Republicans are attacking welfare or food stamps, they say that everyone has an equal chance to achieve the American Dream. They point to those that earned what they have. Please don't call them on it though, because as soon as someone not in there party tries to reach for the stars, they attempt to destroy them. It's not exactly rasist though because it's selective. They may use the non-white attack because thay have plenty of support from the low class elements of their party. it's actually not racist, it's politics. The proof is Richard Steele, Clarence Thomas and others. As long as that non-white is in service to the GOP, it's cool. When they aren't, that's another story, just ask Colin Powell.

If Latinos want to vote Democrat, let them. the main thing is we don't let any of them, especially a Woman get on our highest Court.

If you exclude the dicision that was't over turned and the and the other 228 that weren't questioned, her overturn rate would be 100%

Do we really want a Judge to be on the Supreme Court that has been overturned 100% of the time? Let me put that another way. Do we really want a Latino Judge that has been overturned 100% of the time? Still not convinces? Do we really want a Woman Latino Judge that has been overturned 100% of the time?

How many Alito, Roberts, or for that matter, Ginsburg or Souter opinions were overturned? Perhaps Rush has done that research, and can comment intelligently on the other 8 justices' history of cases before the high court?

I'm guessing that Sotomayor, because of her many years of experience, has had many more cases, period, so by the law of averages, more have gone to the Supreme Court than any of the other justices.

Perhaps Rush would care to comment of that as well?

Didn't think so.

" We'll update this item if we receive a response."

Bwah! Rush never apologizes for any of the numerous statistics he gets wrong. He didn't apologize about the "five million mortgages held by illegals" thing either.