Sotomayor Confirmation proceeding

[omegis13]

Anyone else watching it? They're broadcasting on CSPAN1 as well as on CSPAN's website. Link provided.

http://www.c-span.org/Supreme-Court-Sotomayor-Senate-Confirmation-Hearings.aspx

 

[TunnelRat]

Read about it on Fox news. Is it just me or is she hideous? I could just imagine in some dystopian alternate future her being the emperor, fuhrer, queen of the United Socialist States...

She just gives me this really creepy vibe...

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

I hope someone gives her hell on the 2A and activism issues. Not to mention "hosing" the firefighters on the basis of their race, without so much as an opinion to back up your decision.

 

[TunnelRat]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/14/sotomayor.hearing/index.html

"The only time she seemed ruffled was under persistent questioning by Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, who peppered her about her reasoning in a Second Amendment case in New York. Sotomayor leaned forward during the exchange and answered more quickly, a shift from her focused but calm demeanor with other responses."

 

[neverjeg]

My vote:

 

[berettaman]

Dr.Tom will be up next after Cardin.

He'll git'r done...................

 

[Street Rat]

Read about it on Fox news. Is it just me or is she hideous? I could just imagine in some dystopian alternate future her being the emperor, fuhrer, queen of the United Socialist States...

She just gives me this really creepy vibe...

I know what you're saying, just wait until she gets older.

I heard a little bit on the radio, she was talking about nunchuk(?) "sticks", what are nunchuk sticks? Anyway, I guess they are outlawed in NY, she said the reason is they could be used as a weapon to hurt someone. Really, what else could we use as a weapon to hurt someone that we need to outlaw?

 

[TunnelRat]

Corndog sticks are pretty suspect. They're like miniature pungi sticks. Pretty dangerous if you ask me. Corndogs would be a lot safer without sticks.

 

[mons meg]

Sotomayor doesn't support the idea of an individual owning nunchaku for self defense...what does that make her position on firearms? (rhetorical question)

HATCH: Right, that's my point. That's my point. As a result of this very permissive legal standard -- and it is permissive -- doesn't your decision in Maloney mean that virtually any state or local weapons ban would be permissible?

SOTOMAYOR: Sir, in Maloney, we were talking about nunchuk sticks.

HATCH: I understand.

SOTOMAYOR: Those are martial arts sticks.

HATCH: Two sticks bound together by rawhide or some sort of a...

SOTOMAYOR: Exactly. And -- and when the sticks are swung, which is what you do with them, if there's anybody near you, you're going to be seriously injured, because that swinging mechanism can break arms, it can bust someone's skull...

HATCH: Sure.

SOTOMAYOR: ... it can cause not only serious, but fatal damage. So to the extent that a state government would choose to address this issue of the danger of that instrument by prohibiting its possession in the way New York did, the question before our court -- because the Second Amendment has not been incorporated against the state -- was, did the state have a rational basis for prohibiting the possession of this kind of instrument?

Every kind of regulation would come to a court with a particular statute, which judicial -- judicial -- legislative findings as to why a remedy is needed, and that statute would then be subject to rational basis review.

HATCH: Well, the point that I'm really making is that the decision was based upon a 19th century case that relied on the privileges and immunities clause, which is not the clause that we use to invoke the doctrine of incorporation today, and that's just an important consideration for you as you see these cases in the future.

Let me just change the subject.

I can see why we should ban nunchaku...I mean we already banned the peasantry from putting on airs and running around with the weapons of our ruling samurai class, but darned if those redneck farmers didnt' come up with a way of skirting our self defense ban. We need to close the nunchaku loophole!

 

[338Shooter]

She's an anti ninjite?!?!?!?! I'm stocking up on hi capacity nunchaku before the next ANB!!!!