Comments on: Update III: BAB’s Pick For The Supreme Court

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:31:13 +0000

Thank you Bob S. for the mises.org blog on Judges Brown and Sotomayer. Don’t count on “libertarian judges” to restore freedom – freedom has to come from below (the people to their legislators) rather than from Black Robed Messiahs.

By: James

James — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:45:58 +0000

I have had the same thought that Myron Pauli posted, to wit, Sotomayor is a dimwit that will plainly show the need for Congress to re-assert its prerogative to impeach SCOTUS justices. Since there is zero chance that Obama will appoint anyone willing to stick to the Constitution, I think we’re better off allowing him to seat Sotomayor.

Let her stink the joint up until she has to be shown the door.

By: Bob Schaefer

Bob Schaefer — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:43:57 +0000

Excellent article, as usual. Key concept is: “Instead of reporting the record of Sotomayor, good and bad, the menagerie of morons…”

Menagerie of morons! Priceless.

It’s the good AND the bad that must be reported, that makes us informed citizens.

In that spirit, I submit this article on Judge Brown:

“Brown Won’t Deliver On Property Rights.”

http://blog.mises.org/archives/010028.asp

As I learned in local electoral politics, what a politician says in a campaign can be different than what that politician does when the leather hits the road. (Supreme Court Justices are politicians, first and foremost.) Few politicians hold convictions they won’t surrender to the narcotic of power.

I agree that Sotomayor’s confirmation is a sure thing. Sad. All we can do is hope she has some sort of epiphany. And we can pray for the continued health of the other, more freedom-inclined justices.

By: Van Wijk

Van Wijk — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:55:29 +0000

Ah yes. We must appeal more to those who want to see us dead or displaced.

By: Vic Jones

Vic Jones — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:19:49 +0000

Everytime I hear the “multicultural” claptrap about the “white Euro-centric male”, I always wonder – does that refer to Marx or von Mises, Calvin or Voltaire, Aquinas or Marquis de Sade. My my, they’re all so alike I guess it’s okay to sacrifice each of them to an abstraction. But then, I thought Obama didn’t want to appoint someone who gets lost in abstractions.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:55:56 +0000

Here is Extremist Judge Janice Rogers Brown’s notorious speech:
http://www.constitution.org/col/jrb/00420_jrb_fedsoc.htm
Ironically, we may be better off with a mediocre leftist-statist schnook than with an intelligent leftist-statist who might have more influence and do more damage. Anyway, as far as I am concerned, Benjamin Nathan Cardozo was our nation’s first Hispanic Supreme Court judge – but I guess a Jew cannot be a Hispanic just like a white person cannot be African:
abcnews.go.com/US/Story?id=7567291&page=1
So stop claiming that you lived in South Africa! Maybe the lawsuit over white-African-Americans will go to Judge Sotomayer for her wise opinion as a Latina.

By: Virgil

Virgil — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:44:26 +0000

"I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male."

Yes, the perpetually evil and stupid male whitey. You know, the same guys who came up with natural law theory, the Magna Carta, habeas corpus, the US Constitution, and other apparently poorly concluded ideas. If only St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, John Locke, and Thomas Jefferson had been wise Latina women. [Well put! LOL!]

By: Barbara Grant

Barbara Grant — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:52:27 +0000

Oh, please. Ms. Sotomayor’s remarks are both racist and sexist. Stating, as she does, that “a wise Latina…would reach a better conclusion than a white male” implies that she does not value diversity (different people with different experiences who arrive at different conclusions), but instead would desire to impose a narrow racially- and gender-driven agenda on an entire court, because the background she comes from is “better” for the job of passing judgment than the backgrounds of white males similarly appointed.

This does not bode well for the Supreme Court; perhaps she’ll be “Borked” but I doubt it. Yes, Janice Rogers Brown would be a far better pick than Ms. Sotomayor; but remember, Saul Alinksy’s disciple Barack Obama is making the picks. Did I neglect to mention that in my junior high school history class in the early 1970s, we were taught about Alinsky’s legacy, and told that it was a sad thing when he died? Leftists were working that agenda back then, teaching this tripe to kids like me in the Los Angeles City public schools. That any of us emerged with a brain is a miracle.

[I hope you allowed yourself a happy moment when Alinsky died.]

By: Bob Harrison

Bob Harrison — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:19:43 +0000

“The culture of the word is being extinguished by the culture of the camera. Politicians no longer have positions they have photo-ops. To be or not to be is no longer the question. The question is: how do you feel.”
“Instead of celebrating capitalism’s virtues, we offer it grudging acceptance, contemptuous tolerance but only for its capacity to feed the insatiable maw of socialism.”
Judge Brown is clearly “out of the mainstream,” which is why she would have made an excellent SCOTUS choice!

[Are these her words? Heaven’s she is as brilliant as she is freedom-loving!]

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:43:00 +0000

Justice Brown is an EXTREMIST who believes in the wacky doctrine of property rights which everyone (e.g. the “mainstream”) knows is nowhere in the Constitution…. well, in fairness, Judge Sotomayor did uphold the free speech rights of a cop who got fired for sending “racist” mail to others privately off duty. Anyway, I had little expectations out of Barry Hussein. P.S. Andrew Napolitano of FOX News’ Freedom Watch, another extremist, would also be good – but I have no delusions that anyone who believes in natural law and limited government will get on the Supreme Court.