Sotomayor Viewed Favorably by Public
28 May 2009 10:03 am by Taylor Marsh
Newt Gingrich will have to try harder, yell louder, Twitter his racist screeds more regularly: “White man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw.”
Round one on the roll out goes to Pres. Obama.
Americans’ first reactions to the news of President Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court are decidedly more positive than negative, with 47% rating the nomination as “excellent” or “good,” 20% rating it “only fair,” and 13% rating it “poor.” – Gallup
But rumbling underneath is the question about Judge Sotomayor’s position on abortion. During her interviews, Pres. Obama evidently didn’t ask, at least not directly.
“Discussion about Roe v. Wade will — and must — be part of this nomination process,” Ms. Keenan wrote. “As you know, choice hangs in the balance on the Supreme Court as the last two major choice-related cases were decided by a 5-to-4 margin.”
… But in his briefing to reporters on Tuesday, the White House spokesman, Robert Gibbs, was asked whether Mr. Obama had asked Judge Sotomayor about abortion or privacy rights. Mr. Gibbs replied that Mr. Obama “did not ask that specifically.”
Yesterday I linked to two instances where Sotomayor has proven to be open to siding with conservatives, one, the Gag Rule. She also ruled that police handled abortion protesters too harshly.
We deserve to know if Sotomayor considers Roe v. Wade settled case law. Because if Obama appoints someone who would waver on women’s civil rights there will be hell to pay.
Right now there is too much noise on extraneous issues that deflect from the importance of issues. This serves no one.
