Well, at least there’s one person in the Senate who has had a moment of clarity:
Hatch to vote against Sotomayor’s Supreme Court bid
By Matt Canham
The Salt Lake Tribune
07/24/2009
Washington – For the first time in his 33-year Senate career, Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch will vote against a Supreme Court nominee.
Hatch decided Friday to oppose Sonia Sotomayor when her nomination comes before the Senate Judiciary Committee next Tuesday. Sotomayor, who would become the high court’s first Hispanic justice, is widely expected to easily win confirmation in the next few weeks.
“I reluctantly, and with a heavy heart, have found that I cannot support her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court,” Hatch said in a statement. “Although Judge Sotomayor has a compelling life story and dedication to public service, her statements and record were too much at odds with the principles about the judiciary in which I deeply believe.”
Hatch declined a request for an interview, but his statement indicates that he largely based his decision on her judicial philosophy.
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Largely based on her judicial philosophy? Hey, all you Senators out there, Sotomayor is a criminal:
Sotomayor earned $3,773,824 since 1988 + received $381,775 in loans = $4,155,599 + her 1976-1987 earnings, yet only disclosed assets worth only $543,903, thus leaving unaccounted for in her answers to the Senate Judiciary Committee $3,611,696 – taxes and the cost of her reportedly modest living…
And likewise withheld from it [the Senate Judiciary Committee] the DeLano Case, which reveals her participation in a cover-up of concealment of assets as part of a judicially run and tolerated bankruptcy fraud scheme…
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