Sotomayor's Jewish ties

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

White boys are getting really pissed off...
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May 28, 2009 9:11
Sotomayor's Jewish ties

By RON KAMPEAS / JTA

Jewish groups don't endorse US Supreme Court nominees, at least in writing.

The tears and choked sobs when Sonia Sotomayor accepted President Obama's nomination on Tuesday told another story.

Packed into the room along with Sotomayor's family, friends and colleagues were representatives of Jewish groups that have consulted with the White House about prospective replacements for David Souter.

The story of her life - the daughter of a Puerto Rican single mother from the Bronx, NY, whose ambitions knew no bounds - resounded with a community that has made the story of immigrant triumph over struggle a template of Jewish American success. ( Oh... the Chutzpah...)

"It was impossible not to moved by her personal story," said Mark Pelavin, the associate director of the Reform movement's Religious Action Center. "To see her mother sitting there and think about what this says about her and her country - the combination of someone who grew up in a housing project, who has been on the bench for a long time, but who has been a prosecutor as well, that combination is very powerful."

"It was thrilling," said Sammie Moshenberg, the Washington director of the National Council of Jewish Women.

It doesn't hurt that Sotomayor, 54, is a poster child for strong Jewish-Hispanic relations. In 1986, when she was in private legal practice, she joined one of the first young leadership tours of Israel sponsored by Project Interchange, which is affiliated with the American Jewish Committee.

Sotomayor so enjoyed the country - its immigrant culture, its popular music influenced heavily by Jewish immigrants from Argentina and Brazil - that she made a return visit in 1996 when she was a federal judge, and recently joined a Project Interchange US-Israel forum on immigration. In the process, she formed a lifelong friendship with Project Interchange founder Debbie Berger and her husband, Paul, who attended her swearing-in as a Manhattan appeals court judge in 1998.

"She enjoyed Israel not just from an intellectual perspective, she liked the music and the people," Paul Berger told JTA.

Richard Foltin, the legislative director for the AJC, said her background naturally played a role in how the Jewish community would welcome her.

"We must recognize the significance of the third woman and first Hispanic on the court," he said. "And there's no question of her impressive qualifications."

Sotomayor would come to the Supreme Court with one of the longest bench careers in its history, having handed down or joined 3,000 decisions in 18 years as a federal and appeals court judge. That's a lot to read through and accounted for a degree of hesitancy from Jewish groups that were enthused about her life story but just getting to know her judicial record.

"I've got a bunch of opinions in my briefcase and it's time to start reading," Pelavin said.

The National Council of Jewish Women -- one of the few Jewish groups that expresses an opinion on judicial candidates -- has yet to announce where it stands. Whatever the case, said Nancy Ratzan, the NCJW's president, the organization would dedicate itself to ensuring that Sotomayor receives a fair hearing.

"Our 90,000 followers will be focused on making sure it's a fair and prompt process that focuses on her record," she said.

NCJW and the Religious Action Center will canvass members for appropriate questions for Sotomayor during the confirmation process; the questions will be relayed to the US Senate Judicary Committee.

Leaders of the Anti-Defamation League issued a statement calling for a process that is conducted "professionally, and with civility and respect," and praised the pick while stopping short of an official endorsement.

"We applaud President Obama for having selected this noted jurist to be the Court's first Hispanic and third woman Justice," the ADL leaders stated. "If confirmed, she will undoubtedly bring an important new perspective to the work of the Court."

Even the Orthodox Union, which tends to stake our more conservative ground than other Jewish organizations on church-state issues, spoke positively about Sotomayor, citing several religious freedom-related cases.

In a 1993 case, she upheld the constitutional right of a rabbi in White Plains, NY, to display a menorah in a city park. In two other cases, in 1994 and 2003, Sotomayor upheld prisoners' religious rights even though the practices in question did not conform with mainstream beliefs. And in 2006, she ruled that allowing federal age discrimination statutes to apply to a 70-year-old minister dismissed by the Methodist church would constitute unwarranted government interference in church affairs.

Those decisions, OU said, were "very encouranging."

Marc Stern, the legal counsel for the American Jewish Congress, predicted that Sotomayor's long bench experience ultimately will be a plus. More time on the bench shaping reasoned opinions made her less of a target than other nominees - like Lani Gunier, Robert Bork and Samuel Alito - whose years pushing intellectual boundaries in the halls of academe handed fodder to opponents seeking controversial statements.

Additionally, the 2nd Circuit of Appeals - based in Manhattan and covering New York, Connecticut and Vermont - deals with cases emerging from courts and legislatures that already trend liberal. That means it is less likely to address issues such as abortion and discrimination that often exercise Jewish groups.

"There's no track record that anyone can point to," Stern said, referring to such hot-button issues. "There's not likely going to be a whole lot there as a smoking gun."

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[thirdeyewise]

once she gets appointed and obama has filibuster proof presidency, all hell will break loose!!

[LordLindsey]

This is so obvious now, and there is just nothing that the "people" are doing to show that they are fully aware of it; this is what is most pitiful to me.  How can anyone not see that this is like a movie being played-out in front of the human race...but this is REAL.

LINDSEY

[scorpio]

Sotomayor....Jewish?  Zionist?  Racist!

We recently heard a radio blurb (we don't have TV...best thing we ever did was to get rid of that mind-control "boob-tube") from NPR that Sotamayor CONVERTED to Catholicism.  Converted?  From what?....I could not find a thread that talked about her conversion, even on the NPR website...She attended Catholic school (Cardinal Spellman High), but that does not make her Catholic...Her voice is Jewish, her look is Jewish.


 Her family looks Jewish


She for sure is a racist! Her statements about a "wise latina" making a better decision that a white guy is proof enough that she is a racist!!  She says that she "mis-spoke" but she repeated that same mantra more than 10 times in as many different speeches.  She is a member of La Raza ("The Race") which promotes pro-Latino policy.  She is (in my opinion) just another crypto-Jewess hiding behind the "Latina" label.

 If you refer to the pamphlet, "Who brought the slaves to America" you will find the term "LATINO" is derived from "Ladino" which was an early reference to the Murranos who were the Jews that converted to Catholicism (in appearances only, they remained Jews in their hearts) back in 1492 as they were being expelled from Spain.  She is not a practicing Catholic and the only reference I could of someone confirming  that she is Catholic is from Jesuit Father Joseph O'Hare, the retired president of Fordham University, with whom she served on a New York City campaign finance review council.   http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=346850
(The connection between the Jesuits and the Jews is worthy of its own post.)  

It should be noted that Sotomayor is an example of Affirmative Action!  She entered Princeton on a full scholarship, even though her test scores were far below her peers, according to her own statements.  Her writing and vocabulary skills were weak, and she lacked knowledge in the classics.  (She did not become fluent in English until after her father died when she was nine years old.)  She later described her initial Princeton experience as like "a visitor landing in an alien country." Who else would say something like that other than a wondering Jew?

It wasn't enough that she was getting a free ride primarily because she was a female and Hispanic.  She was the co-chair of the Acción Puertorriqueña organization, which looked for more opportunities for Puerto Rican students.  She then began lobbying for the hiring of Latino faculty, even writing an article in the school paper about the lack a Latino oriented classes.  When lobbying in her sophomore year did not produce results, her Puerto Rican group filed a formal complaint charging discrimination in hiring practices, and the school was forced to hire Hispanic faulty members.  

She then goes on to Yale Law School, again on a full scholarship, even though she was not considered among the top stars of the class. She was co-chair of a group for Latin, Asian, and Native American students, and in her advocacy pushed for hiring more Hispanics for the faculty of the law school. In her third year, she filed a formal complaint against an established Washington, D.C., law firm for suggesting during a recruiting dinner that she was only at Yale because of affirmative action.  Typical Jew...They bite and cry at the same time.

 Sotomayor was a member of the board of directors of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund from 1980 to 1992. The group's most visible triumph came when it successfully blocked a city primary election on the grounds that New York City Council boundaries diminished the power of minority voters.  After becoming a judge, she was a member of the Second Circuit Task Force on Gender, Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor

She has long stressed her ethnic identity, saying in 1996, "Although I am an American, love my country and could achieve its opportunity of succeeding at anything I worked for, I also have a Latina soul and heart, with the magic that carries."  Magic?  What magic?  Could it be the magic of the Kaballah?

Now she will be confirmed to the Supreme Court, even though her decisions have been overturned 60% of the time.  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/200 ... dder-to-f/   "In three of these reversals, the Court held that Judge Sotomayor erred in her statutory interpretation," meaning she goofed up on the law.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/199955

So it appears to me that Affirmative Action is still at play, as she will be the first "Latina" to be on the Supreme Court.  She will surely continue to advocate for her race in her court decisions and through political lobbying, at which she is so skilled.  Good Luck Whitey!!!

[thirdeyewise]

let us remember that before their light skin bretherin (ashkenazis) took up the talmud, the sephardic jews (who are mostly of latin origins) were already experts at being thrown out of different countries. the ashkenazis just added a barbaric twist to the already thriving judaism. in the bible it was not the ashkenazis jesus was talking to, it was the sephardic Jews, jews who later went on to take names like perez, lopez and maybe even sotomayor!


btw, nice pictures!

[hurensohn]

What a disgusting bitch.