Civil libertarians have been complaining that many liberals are ignoring that Judge Sonia Sotomayor has been viewed as hostile to core liberal values and has a fairly conservative voting record in many areas, including free speech, student rights, and criminal procedure. For a review of her cases, click here. Another case has come to light that shows little of the empathy cited by the White House. While Vice President Joe Biden has emphasized the Sotomayor “watches the back of police” in cases (which is supported in some of her more controversial rulings), she has shown little empathy for those challenging police or convictions. The case of Jeffrey Deskovic is being cited as one such case.
Sotomayor was one of the judges who dismissed Deskovic’s 2000 appeal to United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit with a cursory two-page decision. The panel based its decision on the fact that the filing was made four days late due to confusion between the lawyer and the clerk.
Deskovic was convicted at 16 of killing a high school classmate and filed a habeas corpus petition to challenge his conviction. He was later proven innocent by DNA evidence.
His lawyer insisted that he was misinformed about the due date by the clerk’s office and that his client should not suffer for the miscommunication. However, Sotomayor and another judge refused to consider the merits based on the technical filing problem.
He would spend six more years behind bars until finally proven innocent (and the real killer arrested).
The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 requires that habeas corpus petitions must be submitted no more than a year after a conviction becomes final or, as the courts later determined, no more than a year from the act’s implementation. This meant that he had until April 24, 1997 to file his habeas but his papers were filed four days late. Sotomayor and Judge Rosemary S. Pooler ruled that, even if the lawyer was told by the clerk that he had the later due date, it was still a violation and barred the appeal.
There is an interesting disconnect in the position of many liberal organizations, which have abandoned prior views to support this nominee without a hint of concern. As noted earlier, such rulings would normally cause liberals considerable concern and prompt intense review if this were a Republican nominee. Instead, there is virtually no discussion of such rulings by most liberals despite objections from civil libertarians that the left will lose ground on the Court if Sotomayor votes as she did on the Second Circuit.
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Author: http://BuenaVistaMall.com
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These legal simpletons don’t even know how to prove a birth certificate claim
me: but you do,right? tell us. what are your qualifications?have you ever seen a birth certificate from a state other than your own. what would you do if someone spread a rumor that your birth certificate was phony? how would you go about authenticating it?
one question: do you think that the Clintons murdered Vince Foster? That Elvis is alive?
Former Federal LEO;
You have a right to your opinion.
I do not place much value in many opinions here and that is my right.
BuenaVistaMall.com,
I dislike and distrust many of Mr. Obama’s actions more than any other regular poster within this blawg. However, your incessant, repetitive postings on the same subjects do not add to the points against Obama; they just expose you as an ignorant ideologue who is not interested in facts or with supporting your protestations with factual materials or reasoned arguments.
Usurper Obama has nominated Sotomayer for the Supreme Fools. He cannot legally do that. He is an imposter.
Why won’t Obama produce his long-form birth certificate? Why has Obama sealed his school and passport records? Reason leads me to believe he is not a U.S. Citizen and is ineligible to be president of the U.S. He from the beginning was ineligible in that his father was not a U.S. Citizen which caused Obama not to be a ‘Natural Born Citizen’.
He should not have been on the ballot because he was a U.S. War Criminal years before the election.
He is guilty of multiple counts of fraud in his pretense to be a U.S. Senator.
Former Federal LEO;
I am allowed to post here because I have valid, pertinent issues. Obots and Hitler youth don’t like me very much but that is ok. Not here for their admiration or popularity.
BuenaVistaMall.com
“I don’t have time to answer all these asinine suggestions and questions here which are trying to distract from the issue that Obama is a criminal and should not have been elected.”
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Therefore, all you are doing is spamming this blawg with your website and I do not understand why you are allowed to do so.
A start in the U.S. indictments:
1. Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of crime against peace
2. Planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace
3. War crimes
4. Crimes against humanity
Bush, Cheney, Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Reid, McCain, H. Clinton, Feinstein, Leahy, Hatch, Schumer, Rockefeller, Levin, Lieberman, Specter, Cornyn, Byrd, Dodd, hundreds more in Congress and other co-conspirators have violated the same law used to prosecute and convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials.
The U.S. Government has violated the same law used to prosecute and convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials.
To be more specific if Sotomayor, the Supreme Fools or (federal puppet judges) had any morals they would be arresting hundreds in our government of both the Democratic and Republican perversions.
“America is both financially and morally bankrupt”. The United States of America is an outlaw government likened to Nazi Germany in it’s early stages. We see what happened to Nazi Germany. The world is not standing by. Their security is in jeopardy and they are preparing to charge and prosecute some of the U.S. Governmental Nazis. 155 countries see the U.S. Government as War Criminals.
Then we need the Pirate Party to oppose the Property Party. The Pirate party just won a few in the EU! Here’s their principles: My favorite: “We must pull the emergency brake on the runaway train towards a society we do not want. Terrorists may attack the open society, but only governments can abolish it. The Pirate Party wants to prevent that from happening.”
Introduction to Politics and Principles
The Pirate Party wants to fundamentally reform copyright law, get rid of the patent system, and ensure that citizens’ rights to privacy are respected. With this agenda, and only this, we are making a bid for representation in the European and Swedish parliaments.
…The Pirate Party only has three issues on its agenda:
Reform of copyright law
The official aim of the copyright system has always been to find a balance in order to promote culture being created and spread. Today that balance has been completely lost, to a point where the copyright laws severely restrict the very thing they are supposed to promote. The Pirate Party wants to restore the balance in the copyright legislation.
All non-commercial copying and use should be completely free. File sharing and p2p networking should be encouraged rather than criminalized. Culture and knowledge are good things, that increase in value the more they are shared. The Internet could become the greatest public library ever created.
The monopoly for the copyright holder to exploit an aesthetic work commercially should be limited to five years after publication. Today’s copyright terms are simply absurd. Nobody needs to make money seventy years after he is dead. No film studio or record company bases its investment decisions on the off-chance that the product would be of interest to anyone a hundred years in the future. The commercial life of cultural works is staggeringly short in today’s world. If you haven’t made your money back in the first one or two years, you never will. A five years copyright term for commercial use is more than enough. Non-commercial use should be free from day one.
We also want a complete ban on DRM technologies, and on contract clauses that aim to restrict the consumers’ legal rights in this area. There is no point in restoring balance and reason to the legislation, if at the same time we continue to allow the big media companies to both write and enforce their own arbitrary laws.
An abolished patent system
Pharmaceutical patents kill people in third world countries every day. They hamper possibly life saving research by forcing scientists to lock up their findings pending patent application, instead of sharing them with the rest of the scientific community. The latest example of this is the bird flu virus, where not even the threat of a global pandemic can make research institutions forgo their chance to make a killing on patents.
The Pirate Party has a constructive and reasoned proposal for an alternative to pharmaceutical patents. It would not only solve these problems, but also give more money to pharmaceutical research, while still cutting public spending on medicines in half. This is something we would like to discuss on a European level.
Patents in other areas range from the morally repulsive (like patents on living organisms) through the seriously harmful (patents on software and business methods) to the merely pointless (patents in the mature manufacturing industries)…
Respect for the right to privacy
Following the 9/11 event in the US, Europe has allowed itself to be swept along in a panic reaction to try to end all evil by increasing the level of surveillance and control over the entire population. We Europeans should know better. It is not twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and there are plenty of other horrific examples of surveillance-gone-wrong in Europe’s modern history.
The arguments for each step on the road to the surveillance state may sound ever so convincing. But we Europeans know from experience where that road leads, and it is not somewhere we want to go.
We must pull the emergency brake on the runaway train towards a society we do not want. Terrorists may attack the open society, but only governments can abolish it. The Pirate Party wants to prevent that from happening.
Come talk to us in the English part of our forums!
Our full Declaration of Principles is available in PDF format and in OpenDocument format (version 3.2, 5 pages).
Also see an alternative to pharmaceutical patents.
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Sotomayor is a traitor to America. She should be calling for Obama’s arrest on innumerable charges.
Obama is one of the biggest criminals of world history and most all the members of the judicial system and mainstream media are proving to be sell-out whores.
Gore Vidal was dead right when he said that America is ruled by a single party, the Property Party which has two right wings called Republican and Democrat. This is the strategy by which the ruling elite maintains control while preserving an appearance of democracy. Clinton, Bush and Obama, are three right wing presidents one after the other pushing the US Supreme court further to the right.
The GOP is cooperating with Obama by protesting against his choice of Sotomayor so that those who voted for the Democratcs don’t realize how right wing Sotomayor is.
Obama’s ‘Certification of Live Birth’ (COLB) is not a birth certificate.
His fraudulent Hawaiian COLB is not accepted as proof even in Hawaii where Obama claims to have been born.
Obama has had all his records sealed. What is he hiding?One thing he can’t hide – the Obots (Obama Robots) are fools.
Obama by his real names: Usurper, Traitor, Wall Street Stooge, National Socialist, Fascist, Pathological Liar and above all, War Criminal – Mass Murderer.
These legal simpletons don’t even know how to prove a birth certificate claim or discern War Crimes and they remain ‘Morons for Obama’.
I don’t have time to answer all these asinine suggestions and questions here which are trying to distract from the issue that Obama is a criminal and should not have been elected. Either a few people on this blog choose not to see it or don’t have the logic to get the truth.
I don’t care if some of them are black, white, Jew, commie or pinkos – the mass murderers / War Criminals like Obama, Biden, Bush and Cheney, et al need to be arrested and stopped from killing and maiming.
Whats-her-name is another one of these idiots who can’t figure out that you don’t put innocent people in jail! Just what we DO NOT need on the Court!
Here it is folks,as A well known sportcaster use to say”lets go to video”and there are quite a few here to choose from.
All in regards to her past speeches,now now can hear and see it all in her own words,and body langauge.
Enjoy.http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/06/10/us/politics/1194840843283/the-sotomayor-tapes.html?nl=pol&emc=polb2
Mike S.,
I agree that right and left sure ain’t what they used to be! When people were asked to check off the issues and solutions that were most important to them, they lined up with Kucinich, yet he is not allowed to be considered a viable candidate. That is frustrating.