Senate GOP asks whether Sotomayor would uphold Constitution on bearing arms, equal protection
By Laurie Kellman, APTuesday, June 23, 2009
Senate GOP: Will Sotomayor uphold Constitution?
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans are questioning whether Judge Sonia Sotomayor could be counted upon to uphold the Constitution on the Supreme Court.
In multiple floor speeches Tuesday and later in a closed lunch of GOP senators, Republicans said they want to hear more about whether she would uphold constitutional amendments guaranteeing equal protection under the law and the right to keep and bear arms, as well as whether the government can freely take land from one person and give it to another.
Sotomayor’s supporters countered by unveiling endorsements of Hispanic law enforcement organizations, who called her qualified and fair-minded. One police chief predicted only politics could stop her confirmation.
Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings begin July 13 before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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July 15, 2009: 7:33 pm
We all know that federal and state courts show their prejudices and disrespect for our laws and our Constitution. It is because of this disrespect and the attempt to protect other judges that our courts have illegally created doctrines that are solely to protect other judges. These doctrines may as well be law as courts apply them not differently than law. For example the Const. provides only Congress will make law and will set rules for govt. Yet courts set the doctrine (rule of law) without authority from anyone but themselves, and it is for that reason it legally doesnt exist and has no basis in our Const. Yet Congress rather than removing judges, just lets this violation of law go on and on. |
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