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“You read 30 opinions from an 18 year career on the bench and you decide that you are now an authority to question Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s intellectual depth.”

Thirty opinions? My God, half of that would have been more than enough, you turnip! Turley is a professor with years of experience evaluating candidates for law school, for professorships, etc. Every academic is paid to size up a person’s mind on the basis of a small sample of their work. When you get 300 applicants for a professorship, you learn quickly how to do so, if you know your own field.

“And it’s a very interesting commentary about “temperament” considering that Justice Scalia is well-known to have the temperament of a pissed off snake, . . . ”

Can you read, you jackass? Turley was defending Sotomayor against criticisms of her temperament, because he thinks that is not an important issue.

“. . .you trampled all over the grave of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall as well by smearing him. . .”

Are you deranged? Turley said that Marshall is “one of my personal heroes,” “he certainly was [smart],” “he was a brilliant choice [for the court]” but that he is not “someone who has had a lasting intellectual influence on the Court.” That’s a smear? You need to get a grip. A simple factual observation, nothing more.

“It is truly amazing whenever a woman of color achieves anything, she smeared with the same poisonous brush; not smart enough, not nice enough, only picked because they were a woman of color, and of course, not qualified.”

Again, can you read? Turley didn’t say any of these things you blithering idiot!!! He makes it clear that he thinks she is qualified, only NOT THE BEST that could have been chosen. Can you wrap your tiny little mind around that thought?

The only thing truly amazing here is that an utter moron like you uses the moniker “Professor.” I shudder at the thought that it might be true.

LOL, I enthusiastically agree. In about ‘70 a trio of us Sci/Fi fans put out a fanzine by that name, taken from the joke you reference. Grils are a minority that have been overlooked far too long.

Written on a wall, Joe saw written in chalk: “I hate grils”
So he wrote underneath that: “You mean ‘girls’ stupid!”
Next day, Joe saw that something had been written under that:
“Hey, what about us grils?”

Obama, I say us grils should be nominated to the Supreme Court.

I read the mail/blawg on my phone and respond accordingly on the site. I am going to use that time as a cooling period rather than a reactionary time for dribble.

We expect it of trolls to be disruptive. Why should we allow a debate with personalities to win. What were the words that Lincoln used to justify an invasion of the Great South “A House Divided Cannot Stand” so I must do my part. And another saying I like from Perot “I’m All Ears” well yeah, have you got a look at him?

It is a pleasure. We All can make this site a better one despite personal personalities.

What you said shows strenght of character. Keep it up.

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If so, then leave. That should suffice quite well, if in fact!

It was a success long before you and Jill ever showed up, and quite admirably, I may add.

OK, RUN along, then…

No mame, It was a distinct pleasure to hear feedback. I forget the impact that I can have and I am responsible for my actions. No one elses am I responsible for. Thank you again.

I saw someone in real time who said that they would not be back on this site because of the tiff I allowed myself to get into on this last week. I did not realize that would happen. But in life I am learning all sorts of things are possible.

I want this site to be a success and I will do my part to make it happen and when the need comes I take responsibility for my actions. I am responsible for my response to those words that I invoke that evoke. Because I can say it and get over it I usually forget it and can refocus very quickly.

If I start to get off kilter please direct me back. Thank you.

AY Are you watching the game?

No But I will be going to the game tomorrow. Thank you. It was a pleasure to see you today.

I had no idea…

Many of us regulars know that Professor Turley has repeatedly warned Patty C, although he prefers to look forward and not backwards, in full President Obama fashion. I defer to his judgment since this is his blawg, he is the master, and above all, he is a fine gentleman who I revere as a fair-minded and gifted constitutional scholar.

Let us simply accept that Patty C can say whatsoever she prefers and please try to ignore her; I know that I will from this post onward. I spoke up several times in defense of people she attacked and I did so because—through silence—people might think that I agreed with her ad hominem abuse. In addition, conflict resolution is part of law enforcement and I thought that I could help resolve some issues, in a very basic way.

However, some people are incorrigible and out of self-respect, I am going to bow out trying to assist others against PCs attacks. Honestly, all of this embarrasses me, although it is just a blawg; however, this site is very important to me.

If I were one of the many trolls who posted here, and if I wanted to disrupt this site, I would simply reference all of the initially good threads that started out fine and then ended up as just one more Patty C nonsense thread. That is convincing evidence that we “Turlees”, old and new, sometimes exhibit trollish and irrational behavior as distasteful as that of any other hit-’n-run troll.

Therefore, I will now consider Patty C the *resident troll*, and one of the original *untouchable* “Turlees,”—as she reminds us, ad nauseam—and assume, in some perverted way, that Professor Turley accepts her attacks over respect for his other regulars.

Henceforth, please note that my silence and indifference to anything Patty C posts does not confer my acceptance of her nonsensical ad hominem attacks.

FFLEO

“Birth Certificate Question” hits White House Press Briefing – 400,000 citizens want to know…

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=99342

Pay attention and learn, I guess…

You are not educated in the same manner as I have been, unfortunately or NOT.

Not exactly my fault, sorry, AND certainly not yet again!!!

Love,
your entire Family with a capital ‘F’.

Good Night and Sweet Peace – One and All, Amen.

You are gonna need it

What does your base, trash word have to do with a topic covering Justice Sonia Sotomayor?

I suggest that you look up the meaning of the word you have used several times within this blawg.

You and I together are ‘TOTALLY HOT’…

You ARE my butt-buddy on the turlee blawg ‘for shoah’, as we say here in Maine.

GO – UMaine Black Bears!

Just, too, too funny…

“Hey big boy is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

By the way you are a male are you not?”

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Let’s just say I’m armed and deadly. Really enjoyed your performance in “Beverly Hills Cop II.”

He is my ‘Italian Stallion’ if only by osmosis being mine, not his
- for sure.

My ex-husband was Sicilian on his mother’s side and just plain Italian by his father’s.

That poor, poor, poor-poor man… ;P

thank you so much for brining that to my attention. Too many cocktails this evening.

Please visit my website and drop me a line, mention the mispelling and I will send you a special autographed picture.

Hey big boy is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

By the way you are a male are you not?

I think you are Gallic in origin and brogue.

“I am the original Red Sonia, this one is an interloper.”

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If so you might want to work on spelling your name correctly. It’s “Brigitte Nielsen!”

“Mespo, ‘like buttah’… ;P”

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Your palate is impeccable as always.

The percurium opinion was the result of the three-member panel’s withdrawal of its summary order and subsequent to a suggestion for an en banc hearing.

Dissenting opinion from 2nd Circuit Judge Jose Cabranes:

“…Cabranes noted that it was highly unusual for the panel to have issued a per curiam opinion, because the questions raised on appeal were “indisputably complex and far from well-settled.” He wrote, “The core issue presented by this case – the scope of a municipal employer’s authority to disregard examination results based solely on the race of the successful applicants – is not addressed by any precedent of the Supreme Court or our Circuit. … What is not arguable … is … that this Court has failed to grapple with the questions of exceptional importance raised in this appeal.”…

It is also important to know that Adverse Impact is not the same as Disparate Treatment. Disparate Treatment refers to the “intentional” discrimination of certain people groups during the hiring, promoting or placement process. Originally, the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures provided a simple “80 percent” rule for determining that a company’s selection system was having an “adverse impact” on a minority group.

The city could just as easily been sued by a potentially ‘aggrieved’ minority, in the first instance, and have instead been sued by an aggrieved non-minority after the questionale exam was thrown out.

The exam likely wasn’t ‘fair’ to begin with, if only on the basis of the result achieved, in my opinion, and not intentionally so on the part of the City of New Haven.

I gather it was viewed as just a lousy overall test and not reflective of the interest against discrimination of any kind.

Tough call…

This guy on the right, large as life.

http://www.jamd.com/image/g/71081741

Not the shot I wanted, but still worth about 850 words.

You need to “View Image Source” first, copy that URL and then paste. What you’ve pasted there will just take you to Google sans search results.

That would be this guy, large as life.

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“Thurgood Marshall: Meh.”

thank you.

that may have been his intent but it sure read like he thought she was an intellectual light weight of average abilities (average in the sense of judges qualified for the Supreme Court).

In fairness to some of the other commenters, you entered this debate very late. Professor Turley’s initial, less than stellar, post evolved into a very good essay of his opposition, once he found time–from somewhere–to collect his thoughts. You should reread his latest version, because you are still not fully correct regarding the principal ‘liberal’ issue.

Everyone here knows of my growing distrust of Mr. Obama; however, this is a very good choice for his first selection and then Ms. Woods and/or Ms. Sullivan could be his next jurists. I certainly would prefer to see a minimum of 4 women Supreme Court justices.

You want someone that can influence the environment of the court and influence the others presumably by the intellectual persuasiveness in her legal arguments in addition to having good judgement herself.
Jonathan Turley is someone which words is always very thoughtfull and worthy of much attention and consideration.

And I think some of you people are missing the point. Turley is a pretty hard-line liberal and he wants someone who is able to argue the liberal perspective as effectively as Scalia is able to present the conservative one. His criticism with Sotomayor is that she won’t be able to shift the court to the left in the way that a Wood or a Koh would have done, thats all.

Certainly, she is less liberal than at least 3 of the other potential nominees were, although from what I have read over the past 2 days, the critical votes will still likely be 5 to 4, as they were with Justice Souter.

Since Justice Sotomayor is only 54, she still has several years to “reach her stride” and sitting on the highest Federal court can be an incentive to instill an even greater legalist work ethic than she already possesses; furthermore, wisdom does come with age to those who already possess the ability to cultivate wisdom.

M72, thanks for that link to Mr. Yoo and for your perspective as an attorney.

Mike Appleton: as a nonlawyer, I also look forward to your lawyerly perspectives. Legal opinions and comments from attorneys make this blawg especially relevant and educational for me and no doubt for many others.