Sotomayor can be tough on lawyers, according to those interviewed. “She is a terror on the bench.” “She is very outspoken.” “She can be difficult.” “She is temperamental and excitable. She seems angry.” “She is overly aggressive–not very judicial. She does not have a very good temperament.” “She abuses lawyers.” “She really lacks judicial temperament. She behaves in an out of control manner. She makes inappropriate outbursts.” “She is nasty to lawyers. She doesn’t understand their role in the system–as adversaries who have to argue one side or the other. She will attack lawyers for making an argument she does not like.”

She sounds like a textbook case of someone who is mentally ill and on many levels. Rather like the power hungry Mad Queen in “Alice in Wonderland”. Be nice if someone had recordings of her outbursts.

Stranger things have happened and we’re due for our own miracle, darnit! :)

Gee, a cranky lib. Knock me over with a scowl.

JammieWearingFool on May 27, 2009 at 3:41 PM

Thumbs up!

Perhaps Sotomayor is our very own Souter-in-reverse.

yogi41 on May 27, 2009 at 4:31 PM

Are you taking odds on this proposition?

They cite an article from the Wall Street Journal that shows in 3 cases, Sotomayor sided with the pro-life side, although the cases didn’t directly involve abortion.

And in that same article, she was a board member of some group called Childbirth Connect that promotes The 20 Rights of Childbearing Women, and abortion is not one of them.

http://blogs.wsj.com/capitaljournal/2009/05/26/is-sotomayor-an-abortion-centrist/

It’s an interesting read and we can not predict how a judge will rule once on the highest court in the land. Perhaps Sotomayor is our very own Souter-in-reverse.

The terror!

reductio ad absurdums

Reductiones ad absurdum.

She’ll have to up her game. Don’t we all, when promoted?

Just as it was the same people who blocked Miguel Estrada from the Circuit Court of Appeals because he was Latino who are now lauding the Sotomayor for being Hispanic, it is the same people who will be defending Sotomayor’s temperament who rejected John Bolton’s appointment to the UN because he was a ‘bully lacking interpersonal skills with a tendency to abuse others who disagree with him’.

[[Thanks to Weasel Zippers, scouring the bowels of the Internet so we don't have to.]]

If that’s the worst example people can find I’d say this is a dead line of attack.

Sounds like a lot of federal judges I know. They don’t suffer fools.

Ted Torgerson on May 27, 2009 at 3:32 PM

Except each other.

The better strategy is for the GOP to be polite but firm in the confirmation process and get Sotomayor pinned down, on the record, on what she represents. This is not about her being Hispanic, or Puerto Rican, or Catholic, or a single unmarried woman, it is about her being a person who thinks the courts are there to advance public policy and make law. That is wrong on so many levels. Whether you agree with her positions or not, the ends do not justify the means.