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Law professor: Sotomayor lacks “intellectual depth”
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Law professor: Sotomayor lacks “intellectual depth” posted at 4:48 pm on May 26, 2009 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly Really? She graduated summa from Princeton, has a Yale Law degree, and enjoys the enthusiastic support of people as brilliant as Stephen Carter . She’s been a prosecutor, a trial judge, and an appellate judge for years. Whatever else she is, she’s not “Obama’s Harriet Miers.” She’s not a bomb-thrower either, though, which is what I suspect this is really about. Turley is known for appearing on Olbermann’s and Maddow’s shows and telling them what they want to hear about torture; ...
No More Mister Nice Blog —
SO DESPERATE FOR A FIGHT THAT THEY'RE FIGHTING ON OUR SIDE Sure, it's appalling that John Yoo walks the streets as a free man, much less that he's holding forth on the subject of Barack Obama's Supreme Court pick. But what I find striking is the fact that, in addition to the now-boilerplate complaints about "empathy" and identity politics, Yoo -- like all wingnut apparatchiks right now -- is so desperate for battle that he's criticizing Sonia Sotomayor using our side's arguments: Obama had some truly outstanding legal intellectuals and judges to choose from -- Cass Sunstein, Elena Kagan, and Diane Wood come immediately to mind. The White House chose a ...
Video: Vicious Attack on Sotomayor's 'Lack of Intellectual Depth'
Hyscience —
A must-watch clip of David Shuster interviewing Jonathan Turley, who unloads on Sonia Sotomayor (HT - Greg Pollowitz): ):
Related:
NRO - Rule of Law, or Rule of Lawyers? (Sotomayor claims an unlimited license for judicial activism.)
WSJ - Questions for Sotomayor ...
Turley v. Sotomayor
The Corner on National Review Online —
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 [image] Turley v. Sotomayor [ Jonah Goldberg ] Great clip (Via Greg Pollowitz over at the Media Blog): 05/27 10:03 AM [image] Share
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