On Tue, 05 May 2009 07:09:02 -0500, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

In 1985 Ronald Reagan nominated a former US attorney from
Alabama to serve on the federal bench. The nominee appeared
before the Judiciary Committee in 1986 and even the Republicans
on the committee voted against him because he was just a little
too obviously racist. His nomination never made it to the full
Senate.

And he was in the KKK, too...

The GOP announced yesterday that Jeff Sessions will be installed
as ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee.

Oh...I thought you were talking about Robert Byrd...

FWIW, Sessions isn't so much a overall "racist" as a "selective racist." While
some of his ideas are pretty bad and wrong, some are, well, VERY politically
incorrect but absolutely factually correct, insofar as the law is concerned.
IAC, IMO, he isn't fit to be a Federal Judge.

Yep. Same guy.

Obama needs to forget the bipartisan bull**** because it just
ain't ever gonna happen with the Neanderthals left in the GOP.

Hmmm...Orrin Hatch, then head of Committee on the Judiciary, suggested Ginsburg
(and Breyer) to Bill Clinton...

And FWIW, Sotomayor is rated as a "moderate" but also not well-liked by a lot of
bar peers, clerks, etc. But more importantly, she apparently believes that the
role of the judiciary is to set policy, among other pretty damning stuff. And
given her past actions, I think it entirely possible that she'll not be the
"liberal" you guilty white liberals want, but rather, she'll try to impress her
own sense of "the way I think it should be" rather than _the law_ on "the law"
and sometimes, the way she thinks it should be will most definitely not be what
GWLs think it should be. And because neither she nor GWLs are considering _the
law_, it most certainly not be the way _the law_ demands it to be.

Like I said, be very sure and careful when making demands - you're liable to get
exactly what you ask...

HTH,
R