Uppity preference, that is Princton’s version of affirmative action. ;)

(P.S. In a comment on Taylor’s article, Michael Bérubé notes that current Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito was a “former member of Concerned Alumni of Princeton, the group that was formed as a reaction against the admission of women and minorities in the first place.” No doubt the kind of guy Taylor feels is more respectful of the great institution he attended.)

Wow, that should make for a real collegial atmosphere between the justices should Sotomayor be confirmed.

The only preference Mr. Taylor admires is probably the one for inept legacies, the kind of free pass that let the barely average George W. Bush into both Yale and Harvard. That’s affirmative action he can believe in.

The movement toward admitting outstanding candidates, minorities and women included, into positions of power – the Ivy League and Oxbridge, Congress and Parliament, corporations and the military – was a global phenomenon. Like Social Security, there are many (Bush included) still fighting a battle properly lost a generation ago. Which is why it must be fought again today by keeping courts, legislatures and executives as diverse and talented as possible. The problems they wrestle with once in office are not getting fewer or simpler.

I have been amazed more people haven’t picked up on Alito being a member of CAP, an ACTUAL racist and sexist group that had they gotten their way, would have deprived Sotomayor of her education.
It paints the Republican and Democratic ideas of a good judge in the starkest terms possible.

This is getting ridiculous. Newt’s got an email out quoting MLK to knock Sotomayor (and to ask for a donation). That’s really what this is all about. Getting the suckers all worked up then getting them to open their wallets.

Goopers are taking stupid shots at this nominee. Soon it will be time for the elected goopers to decide whether or not to put their money where their mouths are. Are they willing to filibuster the nominee or not?

What she wrote is most likely true. I’m too young to not remember the 60’s, but I do remember the 70’s. The chicano (as latinos were refered to back then)world was totally seperate from the white world. The fact that she graduated so high must have been despite the fact that everybody was probally lookng for a place to stick the knife in.

FYI, when did the NYT change the title in its online front-page article, describing Ms. Sotomayor’s style, from “Sharp-Tongued” to “Blunt”?

The damage done, they can now claim to have been responsive to its careful readership. Bollocks.

Run, Newt, run!

Can’t wait for Strip-Search Sammy and Sonia to compare notes on Princeton. I mean, Sammy’s little treehouse team was trying to keep out people like Sonia, right?

The real horror in the last couple of decades is The Federalist Society that conducted a stealth campaign to get judges with their narrow viewpoint into positions at all levels of the courts. Alito, Roberts and Scalia are part of it. But they’re not satisfied, I guess, and want to ensure that the courts never have to recognize anything past the 1790s. Perhaps they should be barred from ruling on everything that has happened since then? Not allowed to judge any new technology, can’t deal with airlines and telephones, movies and automobiles, the internet, Geneva conventions, trains, radios, and so on. Their position is ridiculous. And the conservative hatred of Sotomayor is a tip of the iceberg. Rove claims Alito called Sotomayor a difficult colleague–when he wasn’t even on the same Circuit court. Can anyone get Alito, who argued against admitting women to his beloved Princeton, to confirm? or to say how he knew this?

How do you expect Newt to pay for his european vacation?

How do you expect Newt to pay for his european vacation?

OPM, of course.

does Newt have a job of any sort?

He puts out a book every few months.

Got to give Alito credit for being prescient. He knew at a early age that his pale-male world would forever change after Ivy League schools started admitting women. Of course, he was too dumb then to realize that the change would be infinitely for the better, and for all I know he is still unhappy about the change. Me I’m so glad that my daughter got a chance to get a great education at Princeton and had a wonderful time there, decades after Sonia graduated.

Jane is upstairs. This is very good.
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Not.

Because they can’t get to 40 on this one. Franken is going to be there by the time the vote comes around, and Arlen Spectre [sic] (DINO-Triassic) has more-or-less promised a vote for cloture. I fully expect that at least one of Collins/Snowe (probably Snowe — she did ask BHO to appoint a woman) will resist RNC pressure, too.

They’d be stupid to try, but that might not stop them. Their best hope appears to be to try to bottle it up in the Judiciary Committee, but I don’t think they can succeed at that either.

This is truly a no-win situation for them. If they were smart, they would STFU and let it slide through. Oh wait. If they were smart, they wouldn’t be Guys Out of Plans, would they?

Oh, I get it — she’s a racist because she called out racism, right?

Same’s that other woman of color who graduated from Princeton….

I completely agree that the wingnuttosphere and the aforementioned Tancredo, Barnes, etc., are completely out to lunch in trying to launch a pre-emptive strike against Obama’s nominee. But hold on just a minute. Before everyone rushes to embrace Sotomayor as a darling of the “left”, isn’t there a process in pace to determine where Sotomayor stands on issues like overturning Roe v. Wade? Isn’t Sotomayor a Catholic? How does that and the threat of ex-communication affect her ability to decide cases involving reproductive rights?